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1985–86 Yugoslav First Basketball League

April 06, 2023

The 1985–86 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 42nd season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav First Basketball League
LeagueYugoslav First Basketball League
SportBasketball
Regular season
Season championsCibona
Playoffs
Finals championsZadar
  Runners-upCibona
Yugoslav First Basketball League seasons

Notable events

Dražen Petrović's 112-point game

The first week of fixtures on 5 October 1985 included a game in Zagreb at Dom Sportova's small hall between Cibona and visiting Smelt Olimpija—a contest that would go down in history for Dražen Petrović's Yugoslav Basketball League single-game scoring record as well as the strange circumstance that allowed it to happen.

Due to Olimpija general manager Radovan Lorbek reportedly being late with submitting a registration letter to the Yugoslav Basketball Federation (KSJ) headquarters in Belgrade, the visiting team failed to fulfill their player registration administrative obligations in time, rendering their entire first team roster ineligible for the regular season opening game. Olimpija were thus forced to field players from their youth system.[1] Sending out juniors (age 18 and under) would've normally been the first option; however, since Olimpija had no junior team within their youth system that year, they had to go to an even younger age group—making do with cadets (16 and under).[1] In the end, the team they took to Zagreb consisted of players born in 1968 and younger, including Igor Đurović, Matjaž Strmole, Jože Maček, Dag Kralj, Tine Erjavec, Jure Zorčič, Gregor Stražiščar, Andrej Novina, and Tine Merzelj.[1][2]

Cibona for their part decided to send out a mixed roster consisting of players from their youth system plus their twenty-one-year-old superstar Dražen Petrović who used the opportunity of playing against inferior opposition to shatter Radivoj Korać's single-game Yugoslav League scoring record from 1962 when Korać scored 74 points for OKK Beograd versus Mladost Zagreb. In a 158–77 blowout in front of 2,000 people against the hapless Ljubljana team, Petrović scored 112 points on 40 for 60 field goal shooting that included 10 for 20 three-point shooting.[3] He did so despite reportedly announcing his intention of leaving the floor once he reached Korać's 74 points.[1] Petrović was one of only five Cibona players to get on the score sheet that day, the other four were eighteen-year-old Dražen Anzulović with 16 points, eighteen-year-old Vladimir Rizman with 14, nineteen-year-old Ivo Nakić with 12, and Ivan Šoštarec with 4.[1]

Cibona's 20-game winning streak

Cibona dominated the regular season with only a single loss in the entire campaign, thus equaling the feat that had previously been managed only twice in Yugoslav League history — Zadar in 1974–75 and Crvena Zvezda in 1949. Behind young Dražen Petrović's scoring exploits (his regular-season scoring average was 43.3 points per game), the Zagreb club opened the league campaign with twenty straight wins before finally losing, 102–100, away to Šibenka (Petrović's old team) in the second last game of the regular season — a contest in which Petrović recorded 52 points, but Šibenka still eked out a win led by Predrag Šarić who scored 36 points.[3]

Budućnost's surprise success

Budućnost was the season's biggest surprise package.[citation needed] Playing only its 6th season in the country's top-flight basketball league, the unfancied side from Titograd that had never had a positive season record (more wins than losses) in its previous five seasons was now nearly unbeatable at home, losing only one game in front of its home fans — against powerful Cibona. Led by veterans Duško Ivanović (28.5 ppg season average), Dragan Ivanović, Nikola Antić, Milatović, and Jadran Vujačić, the team also received a great contribution[clarification needed] from its rising star Žarko Paspalj who turned 20 years of age over the course of the season.[3]

Regular season

Classification

Regular-season ranking 1985–86 Pt G V P PF PS
1. Cibona 43 22 21 1 2474 2074
2. Zadar 37 22 15 7 2050 1921
3. Budućnost 35 22 13 9 1990 2002
4. Šibenka 34 22 12 10 2069 2066
5. Partizan 34 22 12 10 2165 2119
6. Jugoplastika 34 22 12 10 2013 1979
7. Bosna 32 22 10 12 1979 2046
8. Crvena Zvezda 32 22 10 12 2098 2114
9. Borac Čačak 30 22 8 14 1901 1964
10. Rabotnički 29 22 7 15 1884 2058
11. Smelt Olimpija 29 22 8 14 2058 2142
12. Sloga 26 22 4 18 2028 2193

Playoffs

Only the top four placed league table teams qualified for the playoffs quarterfinal automatically.

Teams placed fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth were joined by the top two Second League teams for an 8-team play-in round. The winner of each best-of-three series advanced to the playoffs quarterfinal round.

Play-in qualifying round

Partizan-Sloboda DITA Tuzla 94-85, 95-96, 102-98

Jugoplastika Split-MZT Skopje 89-79, 96-87

KK Bosna-Rabotnički 100-89, 102-85

Crvena Zvezda-Borac Čačak 99-92, 91-89

Quarterfinals

Cibona Zagreb-Crvena Zvezda 124-107, 102-105, 107-120

Šibenka-Partizan 101-102, 92-99

Zadar-KK Bosna 103-88, 81-79

Budućnost-Jugoplastika Split 92-97, 103-106

Semifinals

Cibona Zagreb-Partizan 104-94, 123-124, 128-104

Zadar-Jugoplastika Split 98-77, 76-74

FINALS

Cibona Zagreb-Zadar 84-70, 73-84, 110-111

Bracket

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
1 Cibona 2
8 Crvena Zvezda 1
1 Cibona 2
4 Partizan 1
4 Šibenka 0
5 Partizan 2
1 Cibona 1
2 Zadar 2
2 Zadar 2
7 Bosna 0
2 Zadar 2
3 Jugoplastika 0
3 Budućnost 0
6 Jugoplastika 2

Finals

Game 1: Cibona vs Zadar 84-70

Cibona dominated the opening game of the final series on its home court with strong outside shooting — behind Dražen Petrović's 28 points, Danko Cvjetićanin's 22, and Sven Ušić's 16.[3]

Still, the visitors from Zadar could find some comfort in their defensive play due to managing to limit Cibona to 84 points — well below 116.8 points per game Cibona had been scoring in their prior six games of the 1986 Yugoslav League playoffs.[3]

Game 2: Zadar vs Cibona 84-73

Zadar won game two on its home court at Jazine, having led comfortably throughout the entire contest (halftime score was 42-30). Receiving balanced scoring from its roster — Petar Popović and Veljko Petranović with 15 points each, Ante Matulović with 14, Draženko Blažević 12, Darko Pahlić 11, and Ivica Obad 10 — Zadar's win was never in question.[3]

Cibona's best player Dražen Petrović didn't appear in game two somewhat controversially with the official reason provided by the club that he got injured during warm-up right before the game. There has been rife speculation after the game as well as in the years and decades since in the Yugoslav press and public that—having been so convinced of their superiority over Zadar as well as their dominance on their Dom Sportova home court in Zagreb where at that point they hadn't lost a competitive game for more than three years since March 1983—Cibona essentially tanked game two because they wanted to celebrate the Yugoslav league title in front of their fans at home in game three.[4][5]

Game 3: Cibona vs Zadar 110-111 2OT

With the best-of-three series tied at one apiece, the deciding game 3 was played on Cibona's home court, Dom Sportova, on Saturday, 26 April 1986.[4]

Supported by over 10,000 fans, despite plenty of nervy play from the home team (Dražen Petrović getting a technical for accosting the referee and Franjo Arapović getting ejected for striking Darko Pahlić),[3] Cibona had the early lead behind Cvjetićanin's scoring (got 22 of Cibona's 42 first half points) while Dražen Petrović, who returned to the squad after controversially sitting out game two, also scored actively.[4] Still, Zadar kept chasing with most of its first half points coming from their twenty-six-year-old captain Veljko Petranović and twenty-two-year-old center Stojko Vranković. The team's leading scorer, shooting guard Petar Popović, on the other hand, was completely out of the shooting rhythm — missing his first three shots, getting benched seven minutes into the game by head coach Vlade Đurović, and ending up scoreless at halftime. Cibona was up 42-37 at halftime.[4]

Popović finally managed to get on the scoresheet five minutes into the second half, which led to him starting to score in bunches. Still, Cibona led continuously and midway through the second half, with ten minutes to go, they were up by eleven points — 71-60 — its highest lead of the game.[4] Zadar made one last push and managed to catch up with three-point shooting to tie up the score 85-85 at the end of regulation.[4] The visiting team even had the last possession, but failed to score.[3]

Midway through the overtime, Cibona's leader Dražen Petrović fouled out with his fifth personal foul;[3] leaving the contest with 39 points.[4] At the end of overtime, the score was tied again, 96-96. In the second overtime, with Dražen Petrović no longer on the court, the game turned into a shooting duel between Cvjetićanin and Popović before eventually being decided by Popović's two three-pointers as Zadar pulled out a famous 110-111 victory on the road.[3] Zadar's scoring was led by Popović who scored 35 points (all of them in the second half and two overtimes), while on Cibona's side, beside Dražen Petrović's 39 points (7 three-pointers), Cvjetićanin added 37 points (5 three-pointers).

It was Cibona's first home loss in a competitive game in over three years in all competitions — with their previous home loss occurring on 16 March 1983 in the Yugoslav League versus Red Star Belgrade.[4] And it was a costly loss for Cibona because it meant that despite winning the FIBA European Champions Cup that season, the club didn't get to compete in the next season's edition of the competition.

The winning roster of Zadar:[6]

Coach:   Vlade Đurović

Scoring leaders

  1. Dražen Petrović (Cibona) – 906 points (43.1 ppg)[7] — the highest ever per game scoring average over the course of a single season in the history of the Yugoslav First Basketball League.[8]
  2. ???
  3. Duško Ivanović (Budućnost) – ___ points (28.5ppg)[3]

Qualification in 1986-87 season European competitions

FIBA European Champions Cup

FIBA Cup Winners' Cup

FIBA Korać Cup

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Đurović, Igor (27 December 2016). "KAKO NAM JE DRAŽEN DAO 112 POENA". Koš magazin. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Privilegij je bilo na parketu doživeti Dražena, čeprav ti je nasul 112 točk". RTV Slovenija. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Bjelobaba, Darko (26 October 2014). "Sezona 1985-86: Vlade Đurović, heroj Jazina". Koš magazin. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Klobučarić, Goran (26 April 2018). "Vremeplov: Čudesna subota u Domu sportova". Koš magazin. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  5. ^ Č., S. (26 April 2016). "Noć kad je Zadar napisao najljepšu košarkašku bajku i rasplakao Dražena i Zagreb". Index.hr. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  6. ^ . nsl.kosarka.co.yu. Archived from the original on 2008-07-02. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  7. ^ Martinović, Dragan (3 January 2017). "PRIČA O STRELCIMA: PRVE I DRUGE VIOLINE". Koš magazin. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  8. ^ Martinović, Dragan (22 January 2017). "DRAŽEN PETROVIĆ ILI RADIVOJ KORAĆ?". Koš magazin. Retrieved 12 February 2017.

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The 1985 86 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 42nd season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia Yugoslav First Basketball LeagueLeagueYugoslav First Basketball LeagueSportBasketballRegular seasonSeason championsCibonaPlayoffsFinals championsZadar Runners upCibonaYugoslav First Basketball League seasons 1984 851986 87 Contents 1 Notable events 1 1 Drazen Petrovic s 112 point game 1 2 Cibona s 20 game winning streak 1 3 Buducnost s surprise success 2 Regular season 2 1 Classification 3 Playoffs 3 1 Play in qualifying round 3 2 Quarterfinals 3 3 Semifinals 4 Bracket 4 1 Finals 4 1 1 Game 1 Cibona vs Zadar 84 70 4 1 2 Game 2 Zadar vs Cibona 84 73 4 1 3 Game 3 Cibona vs Zadar 110 111 2OT 5 Scoring leaders 6 Qualification in 1986 87 season European competitions 7 ReferencesNotable events EditDrazen Petrovic s 112 point game Edit The first week of fixtures on 5 October 1985 included a game in Zagreb at Dom Sportova s small hall between Cibona and visiting Smelt Olimpija a contest that would go down in history for Drazen Petrovic s Yugoslav Basketball League single game scoring record as well as the strange circumstance that allowed it to happen Due to Olimpija general manager Radovan Lorbek reportedly being late with submitting a registration letter to the Yugoslav Basketball Federation KSJ headquarters in Belgrade the visiting team failed to fulfill their player registration administrative obligations in time rendering their entire first team roster ineligible for the regular season opening game Olimpija were thus forced to field players from their youth system 1 Sending out juniors age 18 and under would ve normally been the first option however since Olimpija had no junior team within their youth system that year they had to go to an even younger age group making do with cadets 16 and under 1 In the end the team they took to Zagreb consisted of players born in 1968 and younger including Igor Đurovic Matjaz Strmole Joze Macek Dag Kralj Tine Erjavec Jure Zorcic Gregor Straziscar Andrej Novina and Tine Merzelj 1 2 Cibona for their part decided to send out a mixed roster consisting of players from their youth system plus their twenty one year old superstar Drazen Petrovic who used the opportunity of playing against inferior opposition to shatter Radivoj Korac s single game Yugoslav League scoring record from 1962 when Korac scored 74 points for OKK Beograd versus Mladost Zagreb In a 158 77 blowout in front of 2 000 people against the hapless Ljubljana team Petrovic scored 112 points on 40 for 60 field goal shooting that included 10 for 20 three point shooting 3 He did so despite reportedly announcing his intention of leaving the floor once he reached Korac s 74 points 1 Petrovic was one of only five Cibona players to get on the score sheet that day the other four were eighteen year old Drazen Anzulovic with 16 points eighteen year old Vladimir Rizman with 14 nineteen year old Ivo Nakic with 12 and Ivan Sostarec with 4 1 Cibona s 20 game winning streak Edit Cibona dominated the regular season with only a single loss in the entire campaign thus equaling the feat that had previously been managed only twice in Yugoslav League history Zadar in 1974 75 and Crvena Zvezda in 1949 Behind young Drazen Petrovic s scoring exploits his regular season scoring average was 43 3 points per game the Zagreb club opened the league campaign with twenty straight wins before finally losing 102 100 away to Sibenka Petrovic s old team in the second last game of the regular season a contest in which Petrovic recorded 52 points but Sibenka still eked out a win led by Predrag Saric who scored 36 points 3 Buducnost s surprise success Edit Buducnost was the season s biggest surprise package citation needed Playing only its 6th season in the country s top flight basketball league the unfancied side from Titograd that had never had a positive season record more wins than losses in its previous five seasons was now nearly unbeatable at home losing only one game in front of its home fans against powerful Cibona Led by veterans Dusko Ivanovic 28 5 ppg season average Dragan Ivanovic Nikola Antic Milatovic and Jadran Vujacic the team also received a great contribution clarification needed from its rising star Zarko Paspalj who turned 20 years of age over the course of the season 3 Regular season EditClassification Edit Regular season ranking 1985 86 Pt G V P PF PS1 Cibona 43 22 21 1 2474 20742 Zadar 37 22 15 7 2050 19213 Buducnost 35 22 13 9 1990 20024 Sibenka 34 22 12 10 2069 20665 Partizan 34 22 12 10 2165 21196 Jugoplastika 34 22 12 10 2013 19797 Bosna 32 22 10 12 1979 20468 Crvena Zvezda 32 22 10 12 2098 21149 Borac Cacak 30 22 8 14 1901 196410 Rabotnicki 29 22 7 15 1884 205811 Smelt Olimpija 29 22 8 14 2058 214212 Sloga 26 22 4 18 2028 2193Playoffs EditOnly the top four placed league table teams qualified for the playoffs quarterfinal automatically Teams placed fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth and tenth were joined by the top two Second League teams for an 8 team play in round The winner of each best of three series advanced to the playoffs quarterfinal round Play in qualifying round Edit Partizan Sloboda DITA Tuzla 94 85 95 96 102 98Jugoplastika Split MZT Skopje 89 79 96 87KK Bosna Rabotnicki 100 89 102 85Crvena Zvezda Borac Cacak 99 92 91 89 Quarterfinals Edit Cibona Zagreb Crvena Zvezda 124 107 102 105 107 120Sibenka Partizan 101 102 92 99Zadar KK Bosna 103 88 81 79Buducnost Jugoplastika Split 92 97 103 106 Semifinals Edit Cibona Zagreb Partizan 104 94 123 124 128 104Zadar Jugoplastika Split 98 77 76 74FINALSCibona Zagreb Zadar 84 70 73 84 110 111Bracket EditQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals 1Cibona28Crvena Zvezda11Cibona24Partizan14Sibenka05Partizan21Cibona12Zadar22Zadar27Bosna02Zadar23Jugoplastika03Buducnost06Jugoplastika2Finals Edit Game 1 Cibona vs Zadar 84 70 Edit Cibona dominated the opening game of the final series on its home court with strong outside shooting behind Drazen Petrovic s 28 points Danko Cvjeticanin s 22 and Sven Usic s 16 3 Still the visitors from Zadar could find some comfort in their defensive play due to managing to limit Cibona to 84 points well below 116 8 points per game Cibona had been scoring in their prior six games of the 1986 Yugoslav League playoffs 3 Game 2 Zadar vs Cibona 84 73 Edit Zadar won game two on its home court at Jazine having led comfortably throughout the entire contest halftime score was 42 30 Receiving balanced scoring from its roster Petar Popovic and Veljko Petranovic with 15 points each Ante Matulovic with 14 Drazenko Blazevic 12 Darko Pahlic 11 and Ivica Obad 10 Zadar s win was never in question 3 Cibona s best player Drazen Petrovic didn t appear in game two somewhat controversially with the official reason provided by the club that he got injured during warm up right before the game There has been rife speculation after the game as well as in the years and decades since in the Yugoslav press and public that having been so convinced of their superiority over Zadar as well as their dominance on their Dom Sportova home court in Zagreb where at that point they hadn t lost a competitive game for more than three years since March 1983 Cibona essentially tanked game two because they wanted to celebrate the Yugoslav league title in front of their fans at home in game three 4 5 Game 3 Cibona vs Zadar 110 111 2OT Edit With the best of three series tied at one apiece the deciding game 3 was played on Cibona s home court Dom Sportova on Saturday 26 April 1986 4 Supported by over 10 000 fans despite plenty of nervy play from the home team Drazen Petrovic getting a technical for accosting the referee and Franjo Arapovic getting ejected for striking Darko Pahlic 3 Cibona had the early lead behind Cvjeticanin s scoring got 22 of Cibona s 42 first half points while Drazen Petrovic who returned to the squad after controversially sitting out game two also scored actively 4 Still Zadar kept chasing with most of its first half points coming from their twenty six year old captain Veljko Petranovic and twenty two year old center Stojko Vrankovic The team s leading scorer shooting guard Petar Popovic on the other hand was completely out of the shooting rhythm missing his first three shots getting benched seven minutes into the game by head coach Vlade Đurovic and ending up scoreless at halftime Cibona was up 42 37 at halftime 4 Popovic finally managed to get on the scoresheet five minutes into the second half which led to him starting to score in bunches Still Cibona led continuously and midway through the second half with ten minutes to go they were up by eleven points 71 60 its highest lead of the game 4 Zadar made one last push and managed to catch up with three point shooting to tie up the score 85 85 at the end of regulation 4 The visiting team even had the last possession but failed to score 3 Midway through the overtime Cibona s leader Drazen Petrovic fouled out with his fifth personal foul 3 leaving the contest with 39 points 4 At the end of overtime the score was tied again 96 96 In the second overtime with Drazen Petrovic no longer on the court the game turned into a shooting duel between Cvjeticanin and Popovic before eventually being decided by Popovic s two three pointers as Zadar pulled out a famous 110 111 victory on the road 3 Zadar s scoring was led by Popovic who scored 35 points all of them in the second half and two overtimes while on Cibona s side beside Drazen Petrovic s 39 points 7 three pointers Cvjeticanin added 37 points 5 three pointers It was Cibona s first home loss in a competitive game in over three years in all competitions with their previous home loss occurring on 16 March 1983 in the Yugoslav League versus Red Star Belgrade 4 And it was a costly loss for Cibona because it meant that despite winning the FIBA European Champions Cup that season the club didn t get to compete in the next season s edition of the competition The winning roster of Zadar 6 Darko Pahlic Petar Popovic Milan Mlađan hr Ante Matulovic hr Drago Ciklic hr Ivan Sunara Zdenko Babic Drazenko Blazevic hr Stojko Vrankovic Veljko Petranovic hr Ivica Obad hr Boris Hrabrov hr Samir ZuzaCoach Vlade ĐurovicScoring leaders EditDrazen Petrovic Cibona 906 points 43 1 ppg 7 the highest ever per game scoring average over the course of a single season in the history of the Yugoslav First Basketball League 8 Dusko Ivanovic Buducnost points 28 5ppg 3 Qualification in 1986 87 season European competitions EditFIBA European Champions Cup Zadar champions FIBA Cup Winners Cup Cibona Cup finalist FIBA Korac Cup Buducnost 3rd Sibenka 4th Partizan 5th Jugoplastika 6th References Edit a b c d e Đurovic Igor 27 December 2016 KAKO NAM JE DRAZEN DAO 112 POENA Kos magazin Retrieved 31 December 2016 Privilegij je bilo na parketu doziveti Drazena ceprav ti je nasul 112 tock RTV Slovenija 9 October 2015 Retrieved 31 December 2016 a b c d e f g h i j k Bjelobaba Darko 26 October 2014 Sezona 1985 86 Vlade Đurovic heroj Jazina Kos magazin Retrieved 7 December 2015 a b c d e f g h Klobucaric Goran 26 April 2018 Vremeplov Cudesna subota u Domu sportova Kos magazin Retrieved 28 April 2018 C S 26 April 2016 Noc kad je Zadar napisao najljepsu kosarkasku bajku i rasplakao Drazena i Zagreb Index hr Retrieved 29 April 2018 Yugoslav basketball league standings 1945 91 nsl kosarka co yu Archived from the original on 2008 07 02 Retrieved 7 January 2019 Martinovic Dragan 3 January 2017 PRICA O STRELCIMA PRVE I DRUGE VIOLINE Kos magazin Retrieved 12 February 2017 Martinovic Dragan 22 January 2017 DRAZEN PETROVIC ILI RADIVOJ KORAC Kos magazin Retrieved 12 February 2017 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1985 86 Yugoslav First Basketball League amp oldid 1137559553, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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