2017–18 KK Crvena zvezda season explained

See main article: KK Crvena zvezda.

The 2017–18 season is the 73rd Crvena zvezda season in the existence of the club. The team has been playing in the Basketball League of Serbia, in the Adriatic League and in the Euroleague.

Overview

During the summer of 2017, the head coach Dejan Radonjić didn't sign new contract, and the club parted ways with no less than eleven players, including key figures in the last couple of years such as Marko Simonović, captain Luka Mitrović, Charles Jenkins, Stefan Jović, Ognjen Kuzmić and Marko Gudurić. Young prospect Dušan Alimpijević was named as the head coach.^{[1] [2]} Depleted roster was reinforced by James Feldeine and Taylor Rochestie, veterans Pero Antić and Marko Kešelj and a quartet of young players: Mathias Lessort, Nikola Radičević, Stefan Janković and Nikola Jovanović. Zvezda also brought in Dragan Apić, Dejan Davidovac and Stefan Lazarević from its development team FMP. Half of rebuilt team hasn't previously played a single game in EuroLeague.

During October 2017, the Zvezda won six out of ten played games. The Adriatic League season opening started with three wins in a row. In the EuroLeague they won on two home games over FC Barcelona^[3] and Maccabi.^[4]

Breaking with defense oriented philosophy of Radonjić era, the staple of Zvezda's game became 3 point shot. In December 2017. roster was further strengthened with combo guard Dylan Ennis, while Apić and Lazarević got loaned back to FMP.^[5] Last player to arrive was Slovenian national team center Alen Omić,^[6] while underperforming Radičević parted ways with the club. Zvezda finished first in the regular part of ABA league, having 19 wins and 3 losses, and reached finals by defeating Mornar 2–1 in series, but lost 3–1 in final series to Budućnost. Defeat meant that club will not participate in Euroleague next year, which triggered downsizing. Management terminated contract with Dylan Ennis and Milko Bjelica, and reinforced squad with Filip Čović and young prospect Aleksa Radanov from FMP.^[7] Poor start in domestic KLS forced coach Alimpijević to resign, and his assistant Milenko Topić took over as interim head coach. Modified team managed to win the Superleague title, beating FMP in the finals, but the season was generally deemed to be unsuccessful due to failure to secure a spot in Euroleague.

Players

Players with multiple nationalities

• Pero Antić
• James Feldeine
• Stefan Janković
• Alen Omić
• Taylor Rochestie

On loan

KK Crvena zvezda players out on loan
	Player	Position	Team	On loan since
				June 2017
				August 2017
		SG/SF		August–November 2017 November 2017
		SG/SF	FMP	December 2017
		PF/C	FMP	December 2017
				August–December 2017 December 2017
				August–December 2017 December 2017

Youth players

Under a contract

• Ranko Simović^[8]
• Arijan Lakić^[9]

Registered for the Adriatic League

• Zoran Paunović
• Nemanja Popović
• Lazar Vasić

Players In

See also: List of 2017–18 EuroLeague transactions.

Position		Player	Moving from
PF	–	Jonah Bolden1	FMP
SF	10	Branko Lazić	Re-sign
SF	4	Marko Kešelj	Oostende
C/PF	16	Stefan Janković	Lakeland Magic
PF/C	32	Nikola Jovanović	Westchester Knicks
PG	5	Nikola Radičević	Real Betis Energía Plus
SG	14	James Feldeine	Panathinaikos Superfoods
SF/PG	7	Dejan Davidovac	FMP (Loan return)
SG/SF	11	Stefan Lazarević	FMP (Loan return)
PF/C	15	Dragan Apić	FMP (Loan return)
PF/C	26	Mathias Lessort	Nanterre 92
PG/SG	22	Taylor Rochestie	Lokomotiv Kuban
PF/C	12	Pero Antić	Fenerbahçe Doğuş (Loan)
PG	31	Dylan Ennis	Mega Bemax
C	23	Alen Omić	Hapoel Jerusalem
G/SF	11	Aleksa Radanov	FMP (Loan return)
PG	3	Filip Čović

Source: ABA League, Euroleague

Players Out

Position		Player	Moving to
SF	19	Marko Simonović	Zenit Saint Petersburg
PF	9	Luka Mitrović	Brose Bamberg
SG	22	Charles Jenkins	Khimki
PG	24	Stefan Jović	Bayern Munich
SF	23	Marko Gudurić	Fenerbahçe Doğuş
PF	–	Jonah Bolden1	Maccabi Tel Aviv
C	32	Ognjen Kuzmić	Real Madrid
C	7	Aleksandar Aranitović2	Partizan
C	2	Deon Thompson	Miraflores
PF	12	Boriša Simanić	FMP (Loan)
SG/SF	20	Petar Rakićević	FMP (Loan)
PG	–	Aleksa Uskoković3	FMP
PG	0	Nate Wolters	Utah Jazz
PF	–	Marko Tejić4	Trikala Aries
SG/SF	11	Stefan Lazarević	FMP (Loan)
PF/C	15	Dragan Apić	FMP (Loan)
PG	5	Nikola Radičević
PG	31	Dylan Ennis	Zaragoza
PF/C	51	Milko Bjelica	Zaragoza

Notes:

• ¹ Sign and trade. Didn't play a single regular season game.
• ² Missed entire 2016–17 season due to injury.
• ³ Played for the U18 team.
• ⁴ On loan during entire 2016–17 season.

Club

Technical Staff

Position	Staff member
General Manager	Davor Ristović
Sports Director	Nebojša Ilić
Team Manager
Head coach
Assistant coaches
	Saša Kosović
	Aleksandar Zarić
Conditioning coach
Physiotherapist	Milorad Ćirić
Doctors	Nebojša Mitrović
	Boris Gluščević

Source: Crvena zvezda Staff

Technical Staff changes

Change	Date	Staff member	Staff position
Out	July 2017		Head coach	[10]
Out	July 2017		Assistant coach
Out	July 2017	Nikola Birač	Assistant coach
Out	July 2017	Dragan Gačević	Conditioning Coach
In	July 2017		Head coach	[11]
In	July 2017		Assistant coach
In	July 2017		Assistant coach
In	July 2017		Conditioning Coach
Out	August 2017		Sports director	[12]
In	September 2017		Sports director
Out	8 May 2018		Head coach	[13] [14]
In	8 May 2018		Head coach

Kit

• Supplier: Nike
• Main sponsor: mts

• Back sponsor: Idea (top); Huawei (bottom)
• Left shoulder sponsor: Mitsubishi Motors

Pre-season and friendlies

Crete Heraklion – 2nd International Basketball Tournament

Competitions

Adriatic League

See main article: 2017–18 ABA League First Division.

Playoffs

See main article: 2018 ABA League Playoffs.

EuroLeague

See main article: 2017–18 EuroLeague.

Regular season

See main article: 2017–18 EuroLeague Regular Season.

Matches

Source: EuroLeague

Serbian Super League

See main article: 2017–18 Basketball League of Serbia.

Playoffs

See main article: 2018 Basketball League of Serbia playoffs.

Radivoj Korać Cup

See main article: 2017–18 Radivoj Korać Cup.

Source: National Cup

Adriatic Supercup

See main article: 2017 ABA League Supercup.

Crvena zvezda had canceled their participation at the Supercup, due to their previously scheduled Euroleague tournament (Crete Heraklion – 2nd International Basketball Tournament), which was held in the same period.^[15]

Individual awards

EuroLeague

MVP of the Round

Adriatic League

MVP of the Round

Round	Player	Efficiency
1	Mathias Lessort	30	[17]
7	Milko Bjelica	35	[18]
SF3	Ognjen Dobrić	23	[19]
F2	Alen Omić	27

MVP of the Month

Ideal Starting Five

Serbian League

Statistics

Player

Left during season

Adriatic League

Player
	15	1	17.5	.296	.295	.756	5.0	0.8	0.5	0.1	6.7	8.3
	28	28	23.0	.458	.294	.832	3.7	1.6	0.6	0.2	9.8	11.5
	18	15	18.2	.411	.404	.844	2.8	0.9	0.3	0.0	6.7	6.6
	23	4	16.2	.444	.333	.771	3.1	1.9	0.8	0.3	5.6	7.6
	24	3	18.2	.514	.472	.786	2.7	0.8	0.7	0.2	8.1	7.4
	18	0	14.2	.465	.458	.619	1.9	2.7	0.6	0.2	6.6	7.0
	26	17	25.1	.456	.434	.826	1.8	3.2	1.0	0.0	14.8	13.0
	26	0	13.3	.505	.394	.714	3.0	0.4	0.4	0.6	5.5	4.8
	16	1	10.8	.480	.000	.581	2.7	0.4	0.4	0.1	4.6	4.2
	7	0	7.4	.318	.267	.833	1.7	0.7	0.0	0.1	3.3	3.4
	26	18	18.5	.395	.354	.778	2.1	0.9	0.8	0.1	3.8	3.5
	29	24	17.9	.671	.000	.608	4.4	0.6	0.9	0.9	8.8	11.8
	12	4	18.3	.671	.000	.509	5.1	1.8	0.4	0.3	10.9	14.3
	28	28	25.8	.534	.478	.908	2.6	5.9	1.1	0.0	14.6	18.0
	2	0	10.5	.857	.000	.667	3.5	0.5	0.5	0.0	7.0	9.5
	6	1	7.3	.375	.000	.500	2.0	0.5	0.2	0.2	1.2	1.7
	9	1	12.0	.243	.231	.882	1.9	3.1	0.3	0.0	4.2	5.9

EuroLeague

Player
	18	2	18:10	.429	.274	.771	3.4	1.1	0.7	0.1	6.2	6.2
	29	29	25:58	.459	.297	.703	3.7	1.3	0.4	0.2	9.2	8.8
	18	15	20:11	.471	.468	.800	3.4	1.2	0.7	0.1	7.4	6.7
	24	6	15:38	.622	.468	.773	2.0	1.2	0.7	0.3	6.5	7.5
	26	1	15:12	.586	.351	.826	2.3	0.4	0.6	0.2	6.5	6.1
	28	17	24:57	.394	.345	.865	1.6	2.9	1.2	0.1	11.6	9.7
	18	0	13:00	.321	.400	.871	1.8	1.6	0.4	0.1	6.5	4.9
	28	0	11:50	.493	.189	.842	2.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	3.8	3.3
	16	0	8:04	.558	.333	.333	2.8	0.2	0.1	0.2	3.6	4.0
	6	0	6:00	.000	.000	.000	1.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.3
	30	21	20:22	.404	.259	.944	2.0	0.9	0.8	0.1	3.3	2.5
	30	29	21:05	.552	.000	.632	5.7	0.8	0.8	0.7	8.5	10.7
	11	0	17:21	.704	.000	.516	3.9	0.8	0.2	0.2	8.4	10.7
	30	29	26:00	.551	.407	.891	2.3	5.0	0.8	0.1	13.4	14.4
	3	0	5:34	1.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.3	-0.7
	4	0	3:07	.500	.000	1.000	0.5	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.8	0.5
	9	1	12:20	.231	.167	.727	1.1	1.9	0.6	0.0	3.8	1.9

Serbian Super League

Player
	9	0	16:22	.125	.242	.667	3.1	1.4	0.2	0.1	3.8	3.6
	17	0	19:30	.447	.355	.848	2.2	4.9	0.6	0.0	9.2	12.8
	Did not play
	17	10	23:09	.651	.300	.623	3.9	1.6	1.4	0.3	7.9	10.8
	14	4	21:35	.588	.377	.714	2.8	1.2	0.6	0.3	9.9	9.3
	16	5	21:13	.411	.387	.810	1.8	2.3	0.4	0.1	12.6	9.7
	14	12	15:41	.689	.387	.565	3.7	1.0	0.4	0.7	7.9	8.3
	14	0	9:21	.667	.000	.571	3.1	0.4	0.1	0.1	5.7	6.7
	8	0	15:35	.565	.280	.636	2.8	1.0	0.4	0.3	6.8	4.9
	17	17	19:55	.625	.345	.778	3.3	1.5	0.7	0.0	5.9	6.5
	15	2	11:59	.567	.500	.657	3.8	0.4	0.7	0.3	4.0	6.1
	16	14	21:33	.727	.000	.585	7.0	1.5	0.6	0.6	12.4	18.9
	14	4	12:01	.650	.333	.714	1.3	0.6	0.5	0.0	4.3	3.1
	17	17	22:16	.487	.510	.900	1.8	5.9	0.9	0.1	11.1	15.2

Radivoj Korać Cup

Player
	1	0	6:39	.000	.000	.500	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0
	3	3	27:21	.833	.333	.706	5.0	2.0	1.3	0.7	13.7	19.7
	3	3	19:01	.667	.286	.667	1.3	1.3	0.7	0.7	8.7	5.7
	3	0	13:18	.000	.143	.833	1.7	0.0	0.3	0.0	2.7	1.3
	3	1	8:45	1.000	.667	.000	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	2.7	1.7
	3	0	24:31	.333	.154	1.000	2.7	2.0	2.0	0.0	9.7	9.3
	3	0	15:46	.556	.429	1.000	2.7	2.0	0.3	0.0	10.0	9.0
	1	0	8:36	.667	.000	.667	3.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	6.0	9.0
	Did not play
	2	0	13:33	.000	.800	.000	2.5	2.5	0.0	0.0	6.0	6.0
	3	2	19:10	.500	.429	1.000	1.3	0.3	0.7	0.3	5.7	3.7
	3	3	23:19	.800	.000	.538	6.3	1.7	1.0	2.0	7.7	16.3
	3	0	16:45	.778	.000	.600	2.7	0.7	0.3	0.0	6.7	8.3
	3	3	26:14	.474	.333	.750	2.3	4.3	1.3	0.0	12.0	14.3

Head coaches records

Head coach	Competition
		22	19	3	1,955	1,679	+276	86.36
		7	3	4	558	514	+44	42.86
		3	2	1	258	242	+16	66.67
		30	11	19	2,333	2,515	−182	36.67
		7	5	2	636	499	+137	71.43
		3	3	0	267	236	+31	100.0
		7	7	0	615	500	+115	100.0

Updated:

See also

• List of Nike sponsorships
• 2017–18 Red Star Belgrade season
• 2017–18 KK Partizan season

External links

• KK Crvena zvezda official website
• Club info at the Adriatic League official site
• Club info at the EuroLeague official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Aлимпијевић је нови тренер КК Црвена звезда!. redstarbelgrade.rs. 31 October 2017. sr. 2 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170802130623/http://redstarbelgrade.rs/alimpijevic-je-novi-trener-kk-crvena-zvezda/. dead.
2. Web site: NASLEDIO RADONJIĆA Čović: Alimpijević novi trener Zvezde!. sport.blic.rs. 31 October 2017.
3. Web site: IZ MINUTA U MINUT Crvena zvezda - Barselona 90:82. sport.blic.rs. 31 October 2017. sr.
4. Web site: CRVENO-BELI PODVIG U ARENI Umorna Zvezda velikim preokretom šokirala Makabi!. sport.blic.rs. 31 October 2017. sr.
5. https://www.sportando.com/m/en/europe/serbia/257483/dragan-apic-and-stefan-lazarevic-will-play-for-fmp-until-the-end-of-season.html Dragan Apic and Stefan Lazarevic will play for FMP until the end of season
6. Web site: Alen Omić novi centar Crvene zvezde mts!. kkcrvenazvezda.rs. www.kkcrvenazvezda.rs. 2018-01-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20180120065924/http://www.kkcrvenazvezda.rs/alen-omic-novi-centar-crvene-zvezde-mts-20-01-2018.html. 2018-01-20. dead.
7. Web site: KK Crvena zvezda . 2018-04-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180417024253/http://www.kkcrvenazvezda.rs/promene-u-igrackom-sastavu-pred-superligu-16-04-2018.html . 2018-04-17 . dead .
8. Web site: Zvezda signs young forward Simovic long term. euroleague.net. 24 February 2018.
9. Web site: Lakić potpisao profesionalni ugovor sa Crvenom zvezdom. b92.net. 24 February 2018.
10. News: Hvala Dejo!. www.kkcrvenazvezda.rs. 15 July 2017. 7 August 2017. 17 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170717185321/http://www.kkcrvenazvezda.rs/hvala-dejo-15-07-2017.html. dead.
11. News: Zvezda finds new coach in Alimpijevic . EuroLeague.net. 21 July 2017. 7 August 2017.
12. Web site: Nebojša Ilić novi sportski direktor Crvene zvezde mts. kkcrvenazvezda.rs. 20 September 2017. sr. https://web.archive.org/web/20170922120557/http://www.kkcrvenazvezda.rs/nebojsa-ilic-novi-sportski-direktor-crvene-zvezde-mts-19-09-2017.html. 22 September 2017. dead.
13. Web site: NOVI ZVEZDIN TRENER Ko je Milenko Topić, miljenik navijača i čovek koji je pobedio Olimpijakos u Beogradu. sport.blic.rs. 8 May 2018.
14. Web site: SMENA ALIMPIJEVIĆA Topić vodi Zvezdu do daljeg. sport.blic.rs. 8 May 2018.
15. http://www.aba-liga.com/news.php?id=38503 The ABA League Second Division will start from the 2017/18 season
16. News: Round 26 MVP: James Feldeine, Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade. EuroLeague. 17 March 2018. 17 March 2018.
17. Web site: Round 1 MVP: Mathias Lessort (Crvena zvezda mts). www.aba-liga.com.
18. Web site: Round 7 MVP: Milko Bjelica (Crvena zvezda mts). aba-liga.com. 7 November 2017.
19. Web site: Who are the top performers of Semi-finals round 3?. aba-liga.com. 3 April 2018.
20. http://www.aba-liga.com/news.php?id=39236 MVP of November: Milko Bjelica (Crvena zvezda mts)
21. Web site: Rochestie heads the Ideal Starting Five. www.aba-liga.com.
22. Web site: Alen Omić najbolji strelac i MVP finala Superlige . b92.net . 12 June 2018.