Only one team in the world can claim to have generated as much talent this season, measured by NBA standards, as Buducnost of Podgorica. Though its results could not quite reach those of its recent glory days, having three of its players selected in the first 40 picks of the 2003 NBA draft put Buducnost in a league of its own in terms of talent production. That talent production promises that a return to glory can't be too far off. Few teams bridged the 20th and 21st centuries with quite the same style as did Buducnost. In fact, the pride of Montenegro did something few experts would have thought possible: dominate the Yugoslav League, arguably the source of the most talent in Europe. Three straight YUBA titles were forged by a record-setting domestic winning streak of 51 games that ran from 1999 to 2001. Previous to that, Buducnost had started its trophy collection with Yugoslav Cup titles in 1996 and 1998. A third of those gave it a league-cup "double" in 2001. Buducnost had its best Euroleague campaign in 2000-01, reaching the first playoff round that season. In 2001-02 and 2002-03, however, it finished at or near the bottom of its groups and failed to make the Top 16. Neither did it hold onto the YUBA League title streak, but then again, few teams ever have. With all the young talent being discovered in Podgorica, however, the prospects of doing so again always seem real.

TROPHY CASE:

(*) Yugoslavian League
1999, 2000, 2001
(*) Yugoslavian Cup
1996, 1998, 2001

 

2001/02		overall		FG2			FG3			FT			Rebs					Blck		Foul
		Pts	%	M	A	%	M	A	%	M	A	%	D	O	Ass	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	Val
1	Cibona	78	42.9	17	38	44.7	7	18	38.9	23	27	85.2	14	5	6	3	8	4	0	29	0	37
2	Split	84	45.8	20	41	48.8	7	18	38.9	21	32	65.6	20	12	10	8	16	1	0	27	0	49
3	@Laško	92	57.8	18	28	64.3	8	17	47.1	32	50	64.0	12	5	9	9	13	4	0	25	0	56
4	Zadar	93	59.6	26	42	61.9	5	10	50.0	26	34	76.5	21	9	10	10	22	0	0	28	0	64
5	@Olimpija	63	36.2	15	38	39.5	2	9	22.2	27	39	69.2	16	8	3	13	16	2	0	19	0	28
6	Bosna	67	44.4	16	34	47.1	8	20	40.0	11	14	78.6	19	11	4	3	16	2	0	17	0	40
7	@Dita	73	52.4	14	30	46.7	8	12	66.7	21	33	63.6	22	9	8	7	18	0	0	19	0	50
8	Široki	79	50.9	22	39	56.4	5	14	35.7	20	28	71.4	19	6	8	6	9	1	0	19	0	57
9	@Krka	72	40.0	16	30	53.3	6	25	24.0	22	26	84.6	14	8	6	11	17	1	0	23	0	35
10	Slovan	86	56.0	21	32	65.6	7	18	38.9	23	31	74.2	22	5	1	9	18	4	0	21	0	58
11	@Triglav	93	52.5	21	42	50.0	10	17	58.8	21	31	67.7	19	9	2	5	7	1	0	19	0	65
12	@Cibona	59	34.4	14	35	40.0	7	26	26.9	10	20	50.0	16	12	10	9	14	1	0	22	0	21
13	@Split	86	46.4	18	37	48.6	8	19	42.1	26	36	72.2	17	11	15	8	10	3	0	25	0	65
14	Laško	72	50.9	22	31	71.0	7	26	26.9	7	10	70.0	12	5	5	6	11	1	0	22	0	37
15	@Zadar	68	44.4	20	42	47.6	8	21	38.1	4	5	80.0	11	11	5	9	12	5	0	21	0	40
16	Olimpija	71	49.0	19	31	61.3	5	18	27.8	18	24	75.0	13	5	8	6	10	1	0	25	0	38
17	@Bosna	69	45.0	24	48	50.0	3	12	25.0	12	26	46.2	24	8	9	8	14	1	0	19	0	39
18	Dita	57	39.6	16	37	43.2	3	11	27.3	16	20	80.0	29	4	2	2	19	2	0	21	0	23
19	@Široki	79	45.8	19	40	47.5	8	19	42.1	27	58	46.6	18	7	5	4	13	3	0	19	0	21
20	Krka	75	42.1	18	39	46.2	6	18	33.3	21	24	87.5	17	7	5	8	16	2	0	29	0	33
21	@Slovan	87	47.5	19	35	54.3	10	26	38.5	19	25	76.0	12	8	3	6	17	1	0	25	0	37
22	Triglav	63	43.1	22	46	47.8	3	12	25.0	10	18	55.6	20	6	4	11	13	2	0	20	0	32
22	9:13 Total	1666	46.5	417	815		141	386		417	611		387	171	138	161	309	42	0	494	0	925
	Average	75.7	46.5	51.2			36.5			68.2			17.6	7.8	6.3	7.3	14.0	1.9	0.0	22.5	0.0	42.0
	Season max	93	59.6	71.0%			66.7%			87.5%			29	12	15	13	22	5	0	29	0	65

2001/02				overall		FG2			FG3			FT			Rebs					Blck		Foul
		GP	Min	Pts	%	M	A	%	M	A	%	M	A	%	D	O	Ass	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	Val
4	Popović, M.	3	15:48	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	2	0.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	-4
4	Pejčinović, D.	6	108:16	29	52.6	10	18	55.6	0	1	0.0	9	18	50.0	16	7	2	4	9	6	0	19	0	18
4	Bakić, B.	15	338:15	139	54.0	37	67	55.2	10	20	50.0	34	44	77.3	14	12	4	14	20	2	0	38	0	77
4	Goranović, F.	1	04:00	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	-3
5	Arsić, P.	4	68:18	23	38.5	4	11	36.4	1	2	50.0	12	16	75.0	9	6	0	1	8	0	0	11	0	8
5	Okunskyy, A.	5	85:04	46	54.8	17	31	54.8	0	0	0	12	15	80.0	17	8	3	4	9	2	0	8	0	46
6	Smiljanić, A.	9	184:07	69	46.7	16	31	51.6	5	14	35.7	22	28	78.6	9	2	5	12	14	0	0	20	0	33
6	Koljević, I.	1	31:00	17	50.0	4	5	80.0	2	7	28.6	3	3	100.0	1	1	2	1	2	0	0	3	0	11
6	Pavlović, A.	11	242:11	82	45.5	26	50	52.0	4	16	25.0	22	33	66.7	24	4	6	10	19	0	0	27	0	33
7	Mijatović, N.	2	48:00	4	40.0	2	5	40.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	-4
7	Radonjić, D.	14	401:15	176	40.7	13	33	39.4	37	90	41.1	39	56	69.6	17	10	23	13	23	0	0	36	0	90
8	Rakočević, I.	11	282:19	160	55.9	42	66	63.6	10	27	37.0	44	60	73.3	10	3	21	8	26	3	0	21	0	101
9	Sekulić, B.	17	315:06	120	50.0	39	65	60.0	6	25	24.0	30	46	65.2	29	27	8	6	18	4	0	32	0	83
10	Vukčević, D.	12	207:57	89	46.6	15	34	44.1	12	24	50.0	23	26	88.5	14	1	7	7	16	1	0	29	0	40
11	Radunović, B.	13	262:54	79	43.2	28	54	51.9	4	20	20.0	12	24	50.0	38	7	9	14	22	3	0	29	0	45
11	Čakić, G.	8	197:55	77	46.0	14	29	48.3	9	21	42.9	20	27	74.1	22	10	5	5	11	1	0	24	0	51
12	Gorašević, S.	6	98:25	26	45.8	10	20	50.0	1	4	25.0	5	15	33.3	3	0	4	3	9	0	0	4	0	0
12	Kuzmanović, V.	11	330:20	88	40.3	17	39	43.6	14	38	36.8	12	17	70.6	16	8	21	13	12	1	0	18	0	66
13	Vraneš, S.	6	65:17	8	28.6	4	14	28.6	0	0	0	1	1	100.0	10	1	0	1	2	5	0	13	0	0
13	Milojević, D.	7	143:08	44	46.2	13	20	65.0	5	19	26.3	3	13	23.1	19	11	3	5	13	1	0	28	0	11
13	Ćeranić, D.	11	183:35	58	29.6	16	54	29.6	0	0	0	24	33	72.7	23	15	3	9	17	1	0	28	0	17
14	Bulajić, N.	2	25:55	13	38.5	5	13	38.5	0	0	0	3	9	33.3	9	3	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	6
14	Jestratijević, N.	7	106:53	58	47.2	17	36	47.2	0	0	0	24	38	63.2	13	6	0	3	8	4	0	22	0	21
15	Čabarkapa, Ž.	16	393:07	163	50.9	46	80	57.5	12	34	35.3	35	49	71.4	49	23	10	16	23	4	0	44	0	128
15	Mijatović, N.	3	58:56	12	30.0	1	7	14.3	2	3	66.7	5	7	71.4	0	0	1	3	8	0	0	5	0	-6

FG2, FG3 - Field Goals; FT - Free Throws; Min - Minutes; Pts - Points; M - Made; A - Attempted; Blck - Blocks; Fv - in Favoure of; Ag - Against; Foul - Foul; Cm - Committed; Rv - Received; Rebs - Rebounds; D - Defensive; O - Offensive; Ass - Assists; St - Steals; To - Turnover; Val - rank Value;