Union Olimpija played its first official game with the new team in front of its fans on Tuesday, when the tournament in Ljubljana begun, being defeated by Lokomotiva Rostov 94:81. Therefore it will have to meet Dinamo Moscow in the game for the 3rd place on Wednesday since the Russian team was more or less over-played in the first game of Day 1 by Crvena zvezda 93:82.
For Union Olimpija it was obvious that some players have been missing the practices in recent weeks due to obligations in National Teams. Nonetheless Lokomotiva Rostov didn't manage to escape until the last period (30:18).
Scorers for Union Olimpija: Baždarić 9, Bocevski 13, Boisa 16, Ožbolt 15, Rodriguez 11, Markoišvili 2, Mance 6, Pavič 5, Drobnjak 4; for Lokomotiva Rostov: Nesterov 6, Kudelin 16, Voronov 6, Sokolov 4, Giedrus 4, Stevenson 17, Babitcev 4, Matthews 18, Lewis 7, Masiulis 12.
Crvena zvezda is already very close to the competition rhythm what proved on the court on Tuesday. With Nikola Lepojević bagging 24 points and Čedomir Vitkovac adding 18 Dinamo only succeeded to make the positive result in the second period (20:17).
Scorers for Crvena zvezda: Wisniewski 5, Vitkovac 18, Koprivica 4, Radivojević 10, Mirkovič 2, Savović 10, Bijelica 8, Vukosavljević 2, Katić 4, Dragojlović 6, Lepojević 24; for Dinamo Moscow: Udin 6, Smith 14, Gulyas 12, Taylor 24, Kornegay 8, Morgunov 2, V. Goloubev 4, Pegušin 7, A. Goloubev 2, Dajneko 2.
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