Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!
You might still remember the post that I dedicated to the heroic performance of my hometown club in the Czech Basketball Cup Finals some 2 months ago and I´m so proud and happy to share another spectacular feat by our boys from BK Opava with you today.
Just as expected, we met the reigning Czech basketball champions BK Nymburk in the league finals as well. Just to remind you though, BK Nymburk have been totally dominating the Czech basketball scene for almost 2 decades already as they usually have a budget greater than the budgets of all of the other clubs in the league combined. They haven´t lost a single game in the finals for 11 years. Yeah, that´s how dominating their position is...
This year, however, my hometown club BK Opava already managed to beat Nymburk in the Cup Finals (as I informed you in the post linked above) so all of the Czech basketball fans were wondering (and most of them probably also hoping to) if we could beat Nymburk in the league finals too or at least win some game, which would be an amazing achievement as well.
Our team have been working really hard this whole season to be ready to put up the very best fight against the Nymburk hegemons in the finals but unfortunately, our plans started to crumble as early as in the semi finals as our special last minute American reinforcement who was signed only for the play offs broke his hand in the last semi final game against Brno. Two of our very important players were already injured before so we went to the first game of the finals against Nymburk without 3 key players. Shockingly and unfortunately, another 2 players from the rotation got injured in the game. We ended up losing the first match by almost 30 points and with a total of 5 of our key players injured. Quite dismal prospects before the Game 2 that was going to take place in our city just 2 days later...
Given the circumstances, even the most optimistic fans probably didn´t believe that we could beat Nymburk in the second game. But as they say, everything is possible in sport and even the least expected miracles happen sometimes. And this is exactly what happened in our arena on Sunday ;) Massively supported by more than 3,000 frenetic Opava fans (including me of course!), our boys put up an absolutely heroic performance, beating the shocked champions 78:76 and tying up the series 1:1. Wow!
Before the game, the media literally said it was a "mission impossible" for Opava to win the match and yet, we made it. The atmosphere in the arena was absolutely incredible and even now, on Tuesday, 2 days later, I still cannot speak as I left my vocal cords over there. Me and thousands of my fellow fans. This is how we support our club in Opava ;)
The Game 3 of the series will take place today at 5 P.M. (CET) in Nymburk and the Game 4 will be played in Opava 2 days later on Thursday. The fans will be there again of course, giving the utmost and ultimate support to our boys again but even if we lose all the remaining games in the series, we already managed to beat the odds big time and everyone in my city is super proud of our club ;)
Here are some pictures from the Game 2. Now you know why the atmosphere at Opava home games is called "The Yellow Hell" ;)
All of the pictures featured above were taken from the Opavský Deník website. I took a video in the arena myself but I´m yet to edit it. I might post it later.
Thanks for your attention guys. Have a good one and Heja Opava!!! ;)
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