The coach of MZT, Nikolic: It is important for the ABA league to have a club from Macedonia

photo: MZT Skopje Aerodrom/Danail Petrovic

The basketball players of MZT Skopje Aerodrom lost on tonight's visit to Partizan (67:120), which was the second match in a row for them against Euroleague teams, whose quality really stands out from the rest of the ABA-League.

In addition to the defeat, new problems are coming for the Macedonian champion. Deandre Cook who in a collision with Alen Smailagic remained lying on the floor and the initial information from Belgrade says that he will take a break for a month, after dislocating his shoulder and stretching the ligaments of this part of the body.

The coach of MZT, Dragan Nikolic after the match he emphasized the difference between the eternal Belgrade rivals and the other teams in the competition.

- We will no longer have rivals like Crvena zvezda and Partizan. The question is how high quality and strong they are, and the question is how much we need. Is it perhaps better that the rest of us fight to deserve to play against two such rivals with such names both on the field and on the benches. My colleague Vlada Jovanovic told me that this is the reality at this moment - Nikolic said.

At the same time, the strategist of the "metals" said that MZT is a big club, that he was aware when he came to Skopje what task was waiting for him, but also that it is important for the ABA league to have a representative of Macedonia in the regional competition.

- I'm sorry that we stopped playing after Deandre Cook's injury, we were just thinking about it. Partizan wondered, the best shooting team in the league, which knows how to punish much stronger rivals than us. They shot 13/17 from three. I don't need to talk so much about praise, they said enough about themselves today. MZT lost by too big a margin, Cook's injury distracted us, but it will get better - these are Nikolic's words.

The next match for airport players in the Adriatic elite is the home match against Future, already scheduled for Saturday at "Jane Sandanski".

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