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In the only game left of the 8th round of the NLB League Cibona defeated Helios on the road on Sunday's evening nonetheless most of the game things went more in a favour of the hosting team. But a short bench and problems with fouls which sent three domestic players off the court before the end of the game were the reason Helios was not able to keep the rhythm in the final minutes.

There is no surprise that after eight rounds played in the NLB League the top of the standing belongs to the reigning champion FMP which keeps rolling in spite of many changes on the roster from the previous season. On Saturday the team from the suburb of Belgrade defeated Široki Prima pivo at home but the victory was assured as late as in the final minutes since the opponent from Herzegovina was pretty tough to break this time. But that was not the only game played in the Serbian capital since Crvena zvezda hosted Hemofarm at the same time in the sport’s hall Pionir. There was some bitterness in the air for fans of red&whites; since their team was way beyond the usual quality level and suffered a kind of unexpected defeat against Hemofarm. Only minutes later finished also the game between Bosna ASA BHT and Union Olimpija which is obviously recovering from all problems in the recent time and defeated Bosna on the road in one of the rare occasions in the regional league. That was something Geoplin Slovan, the other club from Ljubljana, was not able to achieve on Saturday meeting the young and talented Budućnost at home. The team from Podgorica escaped already in the first half to seal the victory in the last period when Goran Jeretin made no less then 17 points. What about a once well known derby in Dalmatia, the one between Zadar and Split? With time passing the derby lost some of its charm but this time also Split was not able to offer a better resistance to the opponent. The latest game played on Saturday was the one in the Croatian capital, where Partizan met Zagreb without the head-coach Duško Vujošević who was suspended for one game. Nonetheless his team faced no real problem in sport’s hall Trnsko where it celebrated a high victory already last year.