JWSport Jacek Waszak – Sport journalist
02.01.2019 Legia Warszawa – Stelmet Enea BC Zielona Góra 59:76
From the first minutes unstoppable was Michał Sokołowski, but the military for some time responded to the offensive of Stelmet. Already in the first minute of the slowly filling grandstands of the hall Michał Kołodziej picked up, who made (load) a parcel Unfortunately, it was one of the few good accents on that day. Guests played patiently in attack and aggressively in defense. They forced the Military to make long actions and difficult throws, and they themselves started offensive more and more boldly. Had it not been for the two three Soluade players, the Zielona Góra players would have been clearly far from the hosts already in the first ten minutes, and that’s how they finished the quarter with 26:17 lead.
After restarting the game Legia played successfully several times. Unfortunately, later they didn’t use their chances anymore, so the distance between the opponents was maintained by Legia unfortunately in the second quarter didn’t create a big threat to Zielona Góra. In the middle of the quarter the irritated Stelmet started to ruthlessly control the Military. The advantage of the guests increased to a dozen or so points and probably there would be a few such in the hall, who would consider the match as settled. This was not the opinion of Mariusz Konopatzki. “Mario” brought a lot of energy to the team at the end of the quarter, wrote down four points on his account, intercepted and picked up his friends to fight. It was thanks to the rush in the end our team lost with hellishly strong Stelmet only 31:39. 03.01.2019 18:00 87:70
After resuming the game they strengthened the defense even more. What’s more, Omar Prewitt and Mo Soluade started to do their attack. The third quarter ended with only three points to make up for it was the smallest advantage of the guests in this match 49:52. So little was missing that Legia Warszawa would win this quarter.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter the guests recorded a series of 13:0 that was a knockout and did not distance the lead to the end. Sometimes Legia’s players lacked motivation and faith that they could still win or lead to a draw in this match. Still a few good actions Legia created at the end of the quarter but this did not change the game and the match ended with a result of 76:59 for Stelmet.
Legia Warszawa : Omar Prewitt 15, Mo Soluade 11, Mariusz Konopatzki 7, Michał Kołodziej 7, Jakub Karolak 6, Keanu Pinder 6, Sebastian Kowalczyk 4, Dawid Sączewski 3, Jakub Sadowski , Roman Rubinsztejn , Patryk Nowerski, Rusłan Patiejew 0
Stelmet BC Zielona Góra ; Michał Sokołowski 17, Željko Šakić 14, Darko Planinić 10 , Gabe DeVoe 10,Adam Hrycaniuk 8, Łukasz Koszarek 6, Eric Griffin 5, Przemysław Zamojski 4,Markel Starks 2 , Filip Matczak 0 Jarosław Mokros 0
