Cibona – Mega Bemax / ABA Liga – In the last round of the 12th round of the ABA League, Cibona and Mega Bemax meet. Both teams ended the first part of the season with the same result record of four wins and seven defeats, which is why they stay in the table cellar. Only MZT is worse off with two wins and nine defeats. With fourth-placed Partizan and fifth-placed Zadar having only two wins and one more game, the winner of this duel can still hope to qualify for the playoffs.
Cibona
Cibona lost 88-95 in the first leg against Mega in the first round. At that time Zoric was the best player with 24 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists. After the change of coach (Nazor took over the coaching post of Subotic) Cibona has an ascending shape curve. They celebrated away against Mornar, fiercely resisting Crvena Zvezda in the final round (87:93). Zoric scored 20 points, Novacic 17 points.
In the last round of the Croatian championship, they also confirmed their current good form, although they lost 81:84 in the city derby against the favored team of Cibona and still ten points ahead of the last quarter (67:57). Coach Nazor was nevertheless satisfied with the game of his team. Novacic was the best player with 23 points, Tomas scored 14 points, Bosnjak 12 points. On average, they scored 80.5 points and conceded 84.4 counterpoints, while they recorded only 29.4 rebounds on average.
Mega Bemax
Mega has celebrated against Cibona in their last two duels and in their first duel this season, or in four out of their last five duels in the ABA league. The guests also celebrated in the last two away matches in Zagreb, where they were defeated last season as part of the FIBA Champions League. So in the ABA league Mega leads the statistics with 6-3. It will be interesting to see them progressing without their best player later in the season, Playmaker Ennis (17.9 points, 5.5 assists and 4.5 rebounds), with 23 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds the best player in the first direct duel
Ennis moved to Crvena Zvezda, while Mega P. Aranitovic, who had his last engagement in the Spanish club Manresa. In this duel he should have his debut performance. Mega was in a negative series of three defeats, but celebrated in the final round at Igokea 89:82, which was her second triumph in the last three away games (they celebrated away against MZT and lost to FMP), in which she nearly 90 Scored points. Otherwise they are very efficient and have the fourth best attack with 83 points per match, while they collect an average of 84.5 counter points. On average, they score 37.5 rebounds and are the best team in the ABA league in this area.
Cibona – Mega Bemax TIP
Mega will play for the first time this season without Ennis leaving the club, which should take advantage of Cibona to reach the important triumph. The guests have a much younger team that excels in the area of rebounds, but we think this time the hosts’ experience could be crucial, which is why we’re playing handicap on Cibona.
