If we break down the 14 participants in the tournament into companies on a geographical basis, most of the clubs are based in cities on the banks of the Volga; In addition to Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, there are also Saratov Avtodor along with BC Samara. .
The UNICS – Paris NN match formally closed the first round of the regular season, although the teams crossed the halfway point of the competition a few days ago, having started the second round. But this particular game somehow fell out of the generally ordered schedule and came in a little “late” on the schedule.
“Paris NN” is the club of the Russian national team coach, Serbian specialist Zoran Lukic. But his hands are tied lately, as the team is missing several leaders due to a series of injuries and ongoing treatments: Brion Allen, Ivan Strebkov, Glenn Causey, Alexander Chadov, Dmitry Khvostov, Mikhail Belenitsky, Andrey Vorontsevich. Such a dimensionless shortage of hospital and staff.
The series of defeats was interrupted in the last round by a victory over the Belarusian BC Minsk, and the problems of the Nizhny Novgorod team did not go away, as the result of the first half of the meeting in the capital of Tatarstan eloquently demonstrates. – 16:47, that is, “minus 31”. 16 points in two quarters is a season record in the United League.
Thus ended the guests’ fall into the abyss, the second half passed with a relatively even fight, although the Kazan team could have improved at any time if they really wanted to. The UNICS players chose to please the crowd with spectacular actions, such as Jalen Reynolds, who put the ball into the hoop from above several times towards the end of the game. He was the most productive for the winners (17 points), Eric Green and Nenad Dimitrijevic, 16 each. In the ranks of Paris NN, the top scorer is the Serbian Alex Novakovic (20).
“UNICS showed an active game, the Kazan team completely destroyed our attack,” said Paris NN coach Zoran Lukic. – Some of my players suffered a lot of losses, sometimes they couldn’t even cross the center line. The hosts made the most of our rotation problems, but that’s no excuse. I myself would have done the same as my counterpart Velimir Perasovich.
Other results of the round: “Yenisey” (Krasnoyarsk) – CSKA – 75:80, “Parma” (Perm region) – “Lokomotiv-Kuban” (Krasnodar) – 73:67, MBA (Moscow) – “Avtodor” ( Saratov ) – 77:80.
CSKA leads the championship: 14 wins and 1 loss. UNICS’ record is 10-4. The same balance of victories and failures was presented this afternoon against Samara at the Zenit in Saint Petersburg.
Where will we see?
December 9, Saturday
“Party! Country”
7:30 p.m. MBA (Moscow) – Lokomotiv-Kuban (Krasnodar). Live broadcast
December 10, Sunday
“TV match”
1:30 p.m. CSKA – Zenit (Saint Petersburg). Live broadcast
