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Zvezda clicks in the home straight, but is it too late?
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Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade is still in the hunt for a playoff berth after impressive back-to-back home wins against Spanish opposition, prompting head coach Dusko Ivanovic to heap praise on his team after Wednesday’s 92-73 drubbing of Valencia Basket.
It came after a 74-63 win over Cazoo Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz and Zvezda improved to 14-17 with three rounds remaining, meaning that the Serbian side needs to win all three games and hope that other results go its way to have any chance of making the postseason.
Ivanovic, who has a reputation of demanding iron-fisted discipline from his teams in practice and not just on game day, suggested that Zvezda is finally starting to look the part after flashes of brilliance in some games were overshadowed by dips in form throughout the season.
Game Videos
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FC Barcelona - Valencia Basket | Round 34 | Highlights
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Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade - Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul | Round 34 | Highlights
- 00:10
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Mitrovic dunks!
- 03:23
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Valencia Basket - Virtus Segafredo Bologna | Round 33 | Highlights
- 03:34
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Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade - Olympiacos Piraeus | Round 33 | Highlights
- 00:10
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7DAYS Magic Moment: James Webb flushes in style!
- 00:12
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Campazzo’s magic!
- 00:09
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Petrusev with the dunk
- 00:25
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Petrusev beats the buzzer
- 03:28
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Top 10 Plays | Round 32 | 2022-23 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague
- 00:33
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7DAYS Magic Moment of the Night: Petrusev's huge dunk!
- 03:26
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LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade | Round 32 | Highlights
- 00:19
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Bentil throws it down!
- 03:37
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Zalgiris Kaunas - Valencia Basket | Round 32 | Highlights
- 00:13
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Harper finds Alexander!
- 00:09
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Alexander's big block!
- 03:27
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Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade - Valencia Basket | Round 31 | Highlights
- 00:10
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Campazzo dishes to Petrusev for a big dunk!
- 00:08
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Campazzo feeds, Martin dunks!
- 00:09
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Mitrovic dunks!
- 03:21
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AS Monaco - Valencia Basket| Round 30 | Highlights
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Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade - Cazoo Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz | Round 30 | Highlights
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Dobric on the buzzer!
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Campazzo to Martin!
- 00:11
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Martin's two-handed block!
- 03:32
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FC Barcelona - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade | Round 29 | Highlights
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Petrusev finds Bentil!
- 00:22
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Mitrovic's circus shot!
- 00:40
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7DAYS Magic Moment of the Night: Webb tip-in wins it!
- 03:35
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Valencia Basket - Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul | Round 29 | Highlights
- 00:23
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Webb tip-in wins it!
- 03:26
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Panathinaikos Athens - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade | Round 28 | Highlights
- 00:10
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Vildoza beats the buzzer with tip-in!
- 03:32
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Real Madrid - Valencia Basket | Round 28 | Highlights
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Crvena Zvezda Meridanbet Belgrade - Anadolu Efes Istanbul | Round 27 | Highlights
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Petrusev throws it down!
- 03:20
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Valencia - EA7 Emporio Armani Milan | Round 27 | Highlights
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Cazoo Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz - Valencia Basket | Round 26 | Highlights
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Three-point aces Marcus Howard, Chris Jones to face off Friday
- 03:29
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FC Bayern Munich - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade | Round 26 | Highlights
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Mitrovic's big block!
- 00:06
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7DAYS Magic Moment: Petrusev stops Weiler-Babb!
- 03:30
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Top 10 Plays | Round 25 | 2022-23 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague
- 00:28
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7DAYS Magic Moment of the Night: Petrusev posterizes Koumadje!
- 03:29
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Valencia Basket - Olympiacos Piraeus | Round 25 | Highlights
- 03:29
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Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade - ALBA Berlin | Round 25 | Highlights
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Making paella with Valencia Basket stars
- 04:24
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Top 10 Plays | Round 24 | 2022-23 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague
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Round 24 | 2022-23 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague | Friday review
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Panathinaikos Athens - Valencia Basket | Round 24 | Highlights
"We’re on the right track as we’ve finally come to realize what our most efficient weapons are and how we should be playing," Ivanovic said in the post-game press conference after seeing his team push Valencia aside. "Aggressive defense and patient offense. We played various types of defense tonight and the players were focused when we switched defense. That’s complicated and sometimes it's littered with mistakes, but tonight it was flawless."
Against Baskonia and particularly Valencia, Zvezda showed ironclad defense that was missing in some crunch games, as well as the kind of offense that time and again produced the extra pass, in turn generating a barrage of open shots.
Consequently, a plethora of players thrived and point guard Facundo Campazzo linked up with center Filip Petrusev to devastating effect, as the duo tore Valencia to pieces and got the rest of the team involved.
Prized asset Campazzo served up a mature performance with 15 points and 7 assists, but Ivanovic insisted the livewire Argentine still had more to offer.
"When Campazzo started playing for us people were impressed but I told them he had room for improvement," said Zvezda’s head coach. "Now I am saying he still has room for improvement. That’s how good he is."