Eyes – full, Hands - empty


Eyes – full, Hands - empty
07-11-2007 14:08

Tuesday, November 6th, Riga.
Well, that seems to be the right thought for the case, like when you almost touch something valuable for you and they you lose it, because of different reasons. You know, that you can have it, but still can’t find an explanation why this happens.
Something similar happened with LukOil Academic in Riga at the beginning of ULEB Cup. “The Students” faced an opponent, that overcame them using their own weakness. Bulgarian basketball champion played on a good level just till the break against a club, that outrivals it as a team, not individuals. The lack of a high-grade playmaker ready for European battles troubled the mixed-up attack. It seemed like the players lost in their own desire for success, before finding the right way to it.
But like everybody knows sometimes to be able and to do it are two quite incompatible things.
Exactly because of this the Bulgarians left with the bitter taste of the disappointment in Riga. They held their hands towards the win, but it slipped out. Very. They were overcame by a rival, that will make them mostly to get angry, than to wonder how they’ll play at the revenge in Sofia… 
The satisfaction by the touching ceremony before the game and the honour, that famous players from the glorious team of Academic got, just made the loss that followed more painful. Because of the memory of the triumphs 50 years ago, that touched fans’ hearts. For sure those of the players too.
The wonderful atmosphere in the gym, as usually made the few Bulgarians in the Arena to ask themselves: Why we don’t have a hall like this too? Who and what stands in our way? Or we just put off the scent ourselves alone, that everything possible is done…
Eyes- full, empty hands.
Very appropriate.
LukOil left something in Riga that can and has to take back in Bulgaria. If it works fast and confident.

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