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The 213cm tall midfielder scooped ball after ball into the Olimpia Milan penalty area and contributed significantly to CSKA’s victory in Italy’s “fashion capital” after an extra time of 91:87.
In total, Milutinov grabbed 19 balls and improved his career record, but looked more impressive as he grabbed under Olympia’s basket.
The Serbian national team center reached a record before the middle of the fourth quarter, when he scored the ball incorrectly thrown by Janis Strelniekas.
Milutinov has improved on the result achieved by three basketball players so far. The first 11-ball attack in 2001. In November 2005, the tallest Quadre-Michael Lollis of the then Istanbul Ulker team recovered, more than three years later, in 2005. In February 2006, the same was repeated by Gregor Fučka from the Barcelona Tower, and the last to do so was in February 2006. Travis Watson, a heavyweight for Bologna Climamio, won the 11-ball attack in February, and a few years later he also wore Kaunas Žalgiris’ clothes.
However, the results of these players are far from those recorded by Milutinov in Milan.
Getty Images / Euroleague.net nuotr./Nikola Milutinovas
Rebounds on offense would not fade even in the NBA league, which tends to have much higher records.
In a 16-ball attack in a single game outside the Atlantic, no one has recovered for nearly six years, and a total of 1973-1974. In the season in which the rebounds were counted, more than 16 of them have been taken out by only four players behind the opponent’s “board”.
The NBA record, with 18 rebounds, is shared by Zaza Patchulia, the legendary “baddie” Dennis Rodman and Charles Oakley. Jayson Williams, the only one to do it for more than 20 years, has bounced 17 balls under his opponent’s basket.
Interestingly, Rodman, who was dubbed the NBA’s all-time bouncing ball king, was able to get the ball out of attack at least 16 times during the game, as Milutinov did, only once: in 1992. in the March game, when he represented the Detroit Pistons.
Reuters / Photo by Scanpix / Dennis Rodman
Although the average number of balls recaptured in his attack that season was 6.4, and throughout his career D. Rodman caught 4.8 balls behind the opponents’ board, he never managed to recover at least 16 balls. Rodman’s best achievement in wearing the legendary Chicago Bulls outfit was 15 rebounds in 1997 in December.
Until then, N. Milutinov, who set an astonishing record, had received mostly 8 balls in attack during his career. It is true that this season, according to this indicator, the Serbian simply shines: even before the record night in the CSKA center attack, the rebound average (3.7) was the highest in the Euroleague.
The midfielder, who competed in Moscow the first season, now leads the Euroleague in both rebounds (4.5) and total rebounds (8.8).
Interestingly, the team’s record in the attack fell Wednesday night. CSKA knocked down 30 of them under the opponent’s basket and vastly improved the previous best result: clubs Belgrade Partizan (2010) and Málaga Unicaja (2014) had taken 25 balls in a match before in a match.
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