1988–89 Yugoslav First Basketball League

The 1988–89 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 45th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.

1988–89 Yugoslav First Basketball League
LeagueYugoslav First Basketball League
SportBasketball
Regular season
Season championsSocialist Republic of Serbia Partizan
Playoffs
Finals championsSocialist Republic of Croatia Jugoplastika
  Runners-upPartizan

Teams

Socialist Republic of Serbia SR Serbia

Socialist Republic of Croatia SR Croatia

Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina SR Bosnia and Herzegovina

Socialist Republic of Slovenia SR Slovenia

Regular season

Classification

Regular season ranking 1988-89 Pt G V P PF PS
1.Partizan382216620961879
2.Jugoplastika382216619401729
3.Bosna372215719111776
4.Crvena Zvezda362214819211843
5.Zadar362214819201710
6.Smelt Olimpija362214820591799
7.Cibona3422121019361919
8.IMT3222101220162081
9.Vojvodina312291319021932
10.Šibenka282261619062172
11.Prvi partizan252231917072125
12.Borac Čačak252231918442277


Playoff

Semifinals Finals
      
1 Partizan 2
4 Crvena Zvezda 1
1 Partizan 0
2 Jugoplastika 3
2 Jugoplastika 2
3 Bosna 0
SEMIFINALS

Jugoplastika-Bosna 86-69, 96-68

Partizan-Crvena Zvezda 105-92, 83-85, 100-95

FINALS


Partizan-Jugoplastika 73-74, 70-75, 0-2

GROUP KORAC


Cibona-Sloboda Dita 121-82, 94-98, ?

IMT-Zorka 75-72, 93-96, ?


Olimpija-Cibona 81-73, 74-80, 78-76

Zadar-IMT 133-85, 97-82

Finals

The Yugoslav First League's 1989 playoffs final series saw the regular season top seed and newly-minted FIBA Korać Cup winner KK Partizan take on the regular season second seed and newly crowned European champions Jugoplastika.

Game 1: Partizan vs. Jugoplastika 73-74

Game one was played on 22 April 1989 in front of 6,500 spectators at Hala sportova, refereed by Zoran Grbac (from Šibenik) and Tomislav Jovančić (from Valjevo).

For most of the second half, the game was a tense seesaw affair with frequent lead changes. With less than two minutes to go and Jugoplastika up by one, Partizan played the ball down in the low post to Vlade Divac who quickly got double-teamed and kicked the ball out to the open teammate, young shooting guard Predrag Danilović, on the three-point line. Nineteen-year-old Danilović air-balled the wide open three and Jugoplastika's Toni Kukoč, who grabbed Danilović's air ball, ran a quick counterattack with Partizan's defence out of position, passing off to wide open Goran Sobin who scored for 71-74. By the end, Partizan only managed to get closer to 73-74 via Divac drawing a foul then hitting two free throws. After successfully defending Jugoplastika's following possession, Partizan then, with 23 seconds left, had the game's last possession that once again went to Divac who drove right from the left side of the half court, getting into traffic of defensive Jugoplastika bodies under the basket and missing his half-hook shot. Jugoplastika won away, 73-74, behind Sobin's game-high 21 points, thus taking the home-court advantage from Partizan.

Game 2: Jugoplastika vs. Partizan 75-70

Played in front packed Gripe Hall with 8,000 spectators, visitors Partizan were up 43-44 at the half.[1]

In the second half, the lead kept changing throughout the period.[1] Entering the last minute of play, with Jugoplastika up by 3, Partizan point guard Saša Đorđević's three-point attempt was blocked by Luka Pavićević who then grabbed the ball and ran it the other way for a layup and 75-70 Jugoplastika lead. In Partizan's following possession, Žarko Paspalj got fouled in the act of shooting with 28 seconds left in the game. During the timeout before Paspalj's free throws, already incensed with some of the prior decisions by the two refs—Zdravko Kurilić (from Tuzla) and Ljupče Ristovski (from Skopje)—Partizan's head coach Duško Vujošević began intensely going at Kurilić verbally and was assessed a technical foul.[2] With Vujošević continually raging at referee Kurilić and Partizan bench pelted with coins and other objects by the Split crowd, Vujošević decided to take his team off the court and not return.[1] The score at the time of Partizan's walk-out, 75-70, was registered as the final score of the game.

Game 3: Jugoplastika vs. Partizan 2-0

The Yugoslav Basketball Federation's (KSJ) competition commission headed by Radomir Šaper looked into the case of Partizan walking off the court in game two and decided to register game three administratively as a 2-0 Jugoplastika home win. Jugoplastika thus won the 1988-89 Yugoslav League title, beating Partizan 3-games-to-0.[1]

The winning roster of Jugoplastika:[3]

Coach: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Božidar Maljković

Scoring leaders

  1. Milan Mlađan (IMT) - __ points (30.8 ppg)[4] or (31.1ppg)[5]

Qualification in 1989-90 season European competitions

FIBA European Champions Cup

FIBA Cup Winners' Cup

FIBA Korać Cup

References

  1. "Zašto su Divac, Paspalj i crno-beli napustili finale u Splitu". Koš magazin. 20 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  2. Kiš, Nenad (7 July 2021). "Odlazak sudije koji je prekinuo meč Jugoplastike i Partizana, svađao se sa Duletom, sudio Draženu i Šmitu". Kurir. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  3. "Yugoslav basketball league standings 1945-91". nsl.kosarka.co.yu. Archived from the original on 2008-07-02. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  4. reference
  5. Martinović, Dragan (22 January 2017). "DRAŽEN PETROVIĆ ILI RADIVOJ KORAĆ?". Koš magazin. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
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