The fourth edition of 'Goodyear League' has begun. This year BiH will have 2 representatives who have met mixed fortunes in the first round. Siroki Hercegtisak lost while away to the reigning champions Reflex but the newcomer Bosna Asa overcame Split CO at home to signal that they might have something to say in the league this season.
Bosna Asa should be really good. They almost signed Tery Castle but smoething fell through in negotiations.btw our captain Jasmin Hukic plays for Hemofarm
Goodyear lige, 2. kolo: Geoplin Slovan - Bosna Asa 74:80
Košarkaši sarajevske Bosne odigrali su i svoju drugu utakmicu u ovosezonskom takmičenju Goodyear lige. Sarajevski "studenti" su ponovno slavili, te nakon dvije utakmice imaju isto toliko pobjeda. Ovaj put bili su bolji od predstavnika Slovenije, Geoplin Slovan, 74:80 (20:19, 47:41, 59:59, 74:80).
Svi rezultati 2. kola:
The top teams in this needless league will be Partizan, Hemofarm, Reflex, Zvezda and Buducnost (not necessarily in that order) with Olimpija and Cibona being among the top 6 likely. The rest of the teams are not worth the aforementioned teams' time.
Good result by Bosna in Slovenia, 2 out of 2 so far is promising (i ain't predicting no title before anyone jumps down my throat, i'm just glad that there's possibility they might not fight it out for the wooden spoon this time)
Andrija PFC said:
The top teams in this needless league will be Partizan, Hemofarm, Reflex, Zvezda and Buducnost (not necessarily in that order) with Olimpija and Cibona being among the top 6 likely. The rest of the teams are not worth the aforementioned teams' time.
Well if they're not worth their time, why are they participating in this league? Why don't you go and suggest they pull out and play somewhere where it's more suited for their standards and then you can live happily ever after.
Zadar :depress: I don't get this team, last season we were able to beat the likes of Cibona, Crvena Zvezda etc.. but then lose to Krka, Geoplin and teams who finished in the bottom of the league.
Well if they're not worth their time, why are they participating in this league? Why don't you go and suggest they pull out and play somewhere where it's more suited for their standards and then you can live happily ever after.
Dude, Partizan was blackmailed into participating. It's all because of Zvezda & Reflex, they don't like the fact that they can't compete with Partizan in Serbia, so they force their opponnents into a league where they will incur a financial loss. Zvezda was near bankrupt and it entered the league in order to cash in on the nationalistic foolishness of their fans (why do you think hardcore Delije go to these games...to watch basketball? no). Also the GY league knows it can't survive without Serbian teams, so they gave full support to Zvezda & Co.
I'll go off topic for a sec, but Andrija I don't know how you can blame Zvezda for this. Our basketball association should have stopped our teams from competing the day Buducnost (yes, they were the ones that started it) started playing.
Anyway, I predict a comfortable victory for Zvezda this year. We'll beat Hemofarm in the semis and Refleks in the final.
Bosna lost respectably but Siroki had a shocker!!!
Good to see Partizan and Red Star beating everyone in site coz they're too good compared to everyone else :smileani:
Well, Zvezda - Olimpija in Belgrade drew 2000 fans (and this is supposed to be a "big" match) - Pionir has about 7000 seats. In Podgorica Buducnost - Cibona drew 1500, but I don't know how big their hall is. I hear there's still the occasional fan trouble, but most of it has reduced to provocative chanting by some fans, well in Serbia at least. I think this is a poor attendance. Once the nationalist thingy wears off, the fans will judge this league by quality, and we're yet to see that...
Well, Zvezda - Olimpija in Belgrade drew 2000 fans (and this is supposed to be a "big" match) - Pionir has about 7000 seats. In Podgorica Buducnost - Cibona drew 1500, but I don't know how big their hall is. I hear there's still the occasional fan trouble, but most of it has reduced to provocative chanting by some fans, well in Serbia at least. I think this is a poor attendance. Once the nationalist thingy wears off, the fans will judge this league by quality, and we're yet to see that...
Exactly. I don't like a league which thrives when it does on nationalistic stupidity. The league is kind of ridicilious this year, with 16 teams!? That's 30 matches + playoffs (8 teams make it and there's a final four) per team, plus these teams have to play their own championships afterwards (for SCG teams it's at least another 14+5 matches) plus there is Euroleague (at least 14 matches) That means Partizan will play at least 58 matches this season! And that's 60+ knowing they'll make the playoffs most likely in 2 of the 3 competitions. What is this, the NBA?
I would have nothing against the league if it actually improved the level of basketball, and for Bosna and Siroki it probably is an improvement, but for SCG teams it isn't really.