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1971–72 Yugoslav First Basketball League

The 1971–72 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 28th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the top-tier professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav First Basketball League
Season1971–72
Duration6 November 1971 – 27 April 1972
Number of games22 each
Number of teams12
Regular season
RelegatedOriolik
Finals
ChampionsCrvena zvezda
  Runners-upJugoplastika
Statistical leaders
Points Radmilo Mišović 31.3[1][2]

Notable events edit

Early pacesetters: Zvezda, Jugoplastika, and Lokomotiva edit

The season began on 6 November 1971[3] with Crvena zvezda, defending champion Jugoplastika, Lokomotiva, and Olimpija tipped as main title contenders by the observers.[1]

Olimpija fell out of the title contention almost immediately, recording several losses in their first few games of the season while Crvena zvezda and Lokomotiva jumped to the top of the standings early on. Jugoplastika also kept pace with the standings leaders while Borac Čačak, finding success behind Radmilo Mišović's scoring exploits, and Radnički Belgrade became the early season's surprise packages.[1]

In week 4 of the season, Crvena zvezda and Jugoplastika played a hard-fought game in Belgrade's Hala sportova with Zvezda coming out on top 98–86. In addition to highly competitive basketball and Zoran Slavnić's exceptional performance, the game is also remembered for the bench-clearing brawl that occurred with four minutes to go in the contest after Jugoplastika's point guard Rato Tvrdić punched Zvezda's shooting guard Duci Simonović.[1]

Zadar vs Zvezda on Catholic Christmas 1971 edit

On Saturday, 25 December 1971, as part of the season's week 8, KK Zadar and Crvena zvezda faced off at KK Zadar's Jazine home court—a tense and incident-filled contest remembered for the extremely hostile atmosphere with nationalist and sectarian overtones directed towards the visiting team by the home fans.[1] Scheduled to be played on Catholic Christmas—a holiday not officially celebrated in communist SFR Yugoslavia—the game featured tensions even before tip off as the visiting Crvena zvezda players and personnel had to be escorted by police from the moment of their arrival in Zadar.[1]

As the teams entered the Jazine court before the game, the hosts decided to power off the arena lights while the only light in the hall was provided from the thousands of candles distributed out to the gathered spectators. Following the tip off, Zadar fans began throwing the said candles onto the court, continuing to do so throughout the game while the referees — brothers Janko and Petar Kavčić from Ljubljana — didn't stop the contest out of fear of enraging the crowd even more.[1] Among the verbal abuse hurled at Zvezda players were hate speech chants "Srbe na vrbe".[4] With five minutes to go in the close game, Zadar's best player and leading scorer Josip Gjergja twisted his ankle after stepping on one of the candles littering the court and had to leave the contest. Zvezda ended up winning 60–61.[1]

As soon as the game ended, Zvezda players were surrounded by police mid-court as the angry Zadar fans tried to physically accost the visiting team.[1] Shortly, even the army had to be called in as re-enforcement in order to escort the visiting team out of the arena.[1] In the chaos and confusion while the Zvezda players were surrounded by army recruits out on the court, a young female Zadar fan got in-between two of the soldiers guarding Zvezda players and stabbed Zvezda's shooting guard Ivan Sarjanović in the upper thigh with a compass.[1]

Teams edit

  SR Croatia   SR Serbia   SR Macedonia   SR Slovenia

League table edit

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Jugoplastika 22 17 5 1928 1736 +192 39 Advance to single game title playoff
2 Crvena zvezda 22 17 5 1986 1832 +154 39
3 Lokomotiva 22 14 8 1956 1874 +82 36
4 Radnički Beograd 22 14 8 2007 1955 +52 36
5 Rabotnički 22 11 11 1769 1752 +17 33
6 Partizan 22 11 11 1810 1802 +8 33
7 Olimpija 22 10 12 1917 1863 +54 32
8 OKK Beograd 22 10 12 1758 1763 −5 32
9 Borac Čačak 22 9 13 1964 1951 +13 31
10 Zadar 22 7 15 1793 1926 −133 29
11 Željezničar Karlovac 22 7 15 1743 1913 −170 29
12 Oriolik 22 5 17 1621 1885 −264 27 Relegation to the First B League
Source: Strategija

Results edit

Home \ Away JUG CZV LOK RAD RAB PAR OLI OKK BOR ZAD ŽKA ORI
Jugoplastika — 93–92 64–77 97–68 100–74 68–64 104–84 89–77 99–79 79–74 116–100 109–68
Crvena Zvezda 98–86 — 109–89 103–99 81–75 101–85 96–93 99–83 98–87 105–85 109–91 91–82
Lokomotiva 91–84 84–89 — 86–75 83–88 95–93 81–75 78–76 110–103 98–77 111–70
Radnički Belgrade 83–86 94–96 113–104 — 108–93 102–86 96–87 82–73 111–86
Rabotnički 69–71 68–65 84–72 80–82 — 83–77 103–86 62–61 92–90 114–81 101–73
Partizan 95–98 78–80 82–73 80–83 72–66 — 102–92 82–76 90–89 93–72 89–71 78–70
Olimpija 74–70 92–88 104–78 98–83 99–92 — 72–84 88–77 104–85 102–69
OKK Beograd 70–82 83–80 85–87 106–96 73–75 81–72 87–77 — 88–73 79–77 73–75 81–69
Borac Čačak 89–81 89–86 106–84 100–88 88–80 101–96 78–85 — 121–96 101–77 102–93
Zadar 88–100 60–61 97–102 82–77 80–65 88–84 81–91 87–86 — 99–88
Željezničar Karlovac 61–85 87–96 68–67 84–86 73–67 76–70 79–70 80–75 — 81–61
Oriolik 61–67 74–83 75–95 63–64 63–74 76–65 72–75 78–77 74–68 87–80 —
Source: Partizanopedia.rs
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

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Single-game title playoff edit

Due to Crvena Zvezda and Jugoplastika being tied for the top spot with identical 17–5 records at the end of the season, the champion was decided in a one-game playoff between the two teams since, as stipulated by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia regulations, points difference wasn't legitimate criteria to determine a league champion in case of a tie at the top. The regulations further stated that the deciding game's venue had to be neutral and mutually agreed upon between the two teams. Crvena Zvezda requested Sarajevo while Jugoplastika wanted Ljubljana.[1] Due to the teams' inability to agree, the venue was decided by coin toss that was won by Jugoplastika.[1][28]

Accordingly, the game ended up being played in Ljubljana's Tivoli Hall on Thursday, 27 April 1972. In a close game (Jugoplastika was up by four 35–39 at halftime), Zvezda's playmaker Zoran Slavnić hit a shot within final thirty seconds for a 67–67 tie at the end of regulation.[1] Zvezda ended up winning 75–70 largely behind Zoran Lazarević's 12 points, all of which he scored towards the end of regulation and in overtime.[1]

27 April 1972
20:30
Crvena Zvezda   75–70 (OT)   Jugoplastika
Scoring by half: 35–39, 32–28 Overtime: 8–3
Pts: Simonović 20 Pts: Šolman 18
Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana
Attendance: 4,500
Referees: Brumen (Ljubljana), Popovski (Titov Veles)


Starters: Pts Reb Ast
PG 15   Zoran Slavnić 17
SG 11   Ljubodrag Simonović 20
SF 10   Dragan Kapičić 8
PF 5   Zoran Lazarević 12
C 12   Dragiša Vučinić 15
Reserves:
PG 4   Goran Rakočević 0
SF 6   Ivan Sarjanović 6
C 7   Božidar Pešić 0
SF 8   Vladimir Cvetković 0
F/C 9   Zoran Latifić 0
F/C 13   Ljupče Žugić 0
C 14   Tihomir Pavlović 0
Head coach:
  Bratislav Đorđević
 
 
 
 
Crvena zvezda
 
 
 
 
Jugoplastika

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1971–72 Yugoslav First Basketball League Champions
 
Crvena zvezda
12th title
Starters: Pts Reb Ast
PG 10   Ratomir Tvrdić 6
SG 8   Branko Macura 7
SF 12   Damir Šolman 18
PF 13   Duje Krstulović 0
C 15   Petar Skansi 15
Reserves:
PG 4   Drago Peterka 6
C 6   Mihajlo Manović 11
PF 7   Ivo Škarić 0
SF 9   Zoran Grašo 0
C 11   Lovre Tvrdić 0
C 14   Zdenko Prug 0
Head coach:
  Branko Radović

Winning Roster edit

The winning roster of Crvena Zvezda:[29][28]

Coach:   Bratislav Đorđević

Qualification in 1972-73 season European competitions edit

FIBA European Champions Cup

FIBA Cup Winner's Cup

FIBA Korać Cup

Basketball Cup edit

Bracket edit

 
EightfinalsQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals
 
              
 
 
 
 
Kombinat Zrenjanin77
 
 
 
Lokomotiva81
 
Lokomotiva106
 
 
 
Oriolik88
 
Željezničar Sarajevo64
 
 
 
Oriolik68
 
Lokomotiva92
 
 
 
Crvena zvezda89
 
Crvena zvezda83
 
 
 
OKK Beograd74
 
Crvena zvezda93
 
 
 
Radnički Belgrade75
 
Radnički Belgrade78
 
 
 
Partizan70
 
Lokomotiva88
 
 
 
Jugoplastika81
 
Olimpija88
 
 
 
Borac Čačak83
 
Olimpija90
 
 
 
Jugoplastika102
 
Jugoplastika79
 
 
 
Rabotnički74
 
Jugoplastika
 
 
 
Kvarner
 
Kvarner71
 
 
 
Borac Banja Luka66
 
Kvarner94
 
 
 
Vrhnika75
 
Akademik Titograd56
 
 
Vrhnika78
 

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