The teams have now bigger motivation at this stage of Regular Season. Every game can be crucial and decide about teams’ position at the end of Regular Season. Here is the last round review presented by Job Market.
The most exciting game of round 25 in the Superleague 1 took place in Saint Petersburg. This derby game ended with only three-point defeat on the road of much higher ranked CSKA-2 (18-6) to fourth ranked Zenit-2 (16-8) 81-78 on Saturday evening. It ended at the same time the three-game winning streak of CSKA-2. Center Egor Ryzhov (210-2004, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) stepped up with a double-double by scoring 16 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists for the winners and guard Ivan Prokopenko (186-2004, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) chipped in 21 points (on 9-of-11 shooting from the field). At the losing side Alexandr Evseev (205-2002) responded with 14 points and 7 rebounds. Both coaches used bench players in such tough game. Zenit-2 maintains fourth place with 16-8 record. CSKA-2 at the other side keeps the second position with six games lost. Zenit-2 are looking forward to face Dinamo (#5) in Vladivostok in the next round. CSKA-2 will play at home against Khimki and it may be a tough game between close rivals.
Superleague 1 top team – TSU (83-5) managed to deliver another win. This time they beat eleventh ranked Lok.Kuban (8-15) in Krasnodar 92-83. Guard Ivan Makarov (195-2003) nailed 22 points for the winning side and Maxim Khoziashev accounted for 7 points, 5 rebounds, 12 assists and 6 steals. Guard Daniil Ginko (187-2004) came up with 20 points and 6 assists for Lok.Kuban in the defeat. Both coaches tested many bench players which allowed the starters a little rest for the next games. TSU have an impressive series of 66 victories in a row. They maintain first place with 83-5 record. Lok.Kuban lost third consecutive game. They dropped to the twelfth position with 15 games lost. They share it with Tambov. TSU will play against Novosybirsk (#6) in Novosibirsk in the next round which should be theoretically an easy game. Lok.Kuban will play on the road against Metallurg MGN (#16) in Magnitogorsk and hopes to get back on the winning track.
The game in Barnau was also quite interesting. Fifth ranked Dinamo (15-9) played at the court of 8th ranked Barnaul (12-11). Dinamo did not have too big problems and got a relatively easy victory 89-72 on Saturday. It ended at the same time the three-game winning streak of Barnaul. Ivan Strebkov fired 20 points and 5 assists for the winners. Vsevolod Tishin produced 12 points and 5 rebounds for lost side. Barnaul’s coach Alexander Gerasimov rotated eleven players seeing no chance for a win. Dinamo maintains fifth place with 15-9 record. Loser Barnaul dropped to the seventh position with 11 games lost. Dinamo will meet at home higher ranked Zenit-2 (#4) in the next round and it will be quite challenging to get another victory. Barnaul will play against Kupol-Rodniki in Izhevsk and hope to secure a win.
There were no shocking results in the rest of the games of round 25: Kupol-Rodniki lost to BARS-RGEU on the opponent’s court 70-71. Dinamo managed to outperform Tambov in a home game 79-71. Bottom-ranked Metallurg MGN recorded a loss to Khimki on the road 69-64. Novosybirsk defeated Irkut on its own court 64-60. Chelbasket was beaten by Univ.Surgut in a road game 67-62.
Barnaul – Dinamo V. 72-89
The game in Barnau was also quite interesting. Fifth ranked Dinamo (15-9) played at the court of 8th ranked Barnaul (12-11). Dinamo did not have too big problems and got a relatively easy victory 89-72 on Saturday. It ended at the same time the three-game winning streak of Barnaul. Dinamo made 16-of-20 free shots (80.0 percent) during the game. The former international guard Ivan Strebkov (193-1991) fired 20 points and 5 assists for the winners. The former international swingman Anton Ponkrashov (200-1986) chipped in 19 points and 7 rebounds. Vsevolod Tishin (197-2001) produced 12 points and 5 rebounds and Serbian guard Branislav Suznjev (185-2001) added 11 points and 4 assists respectively for lost side. Five Dinamo and four Barnaul players scored in double figures. Barnaul’s coach Alexander Gerasimov rotated eleven players seeing no chance for a win. Dinamo maintains fifth place with 15-9 record. Loser Barnaul dropped to the seventh position with 11 games lost. Dinamo will meet at home higher ranked Zenit-2 (#4) in the next round and it will be quite challenging to get another victory. Barnaul will play against Kupol-Rodniki in Izhevsk and hope to secure a win.
Top scorers:
Dinamo V.: I.Strebkov 20+3reb+5ast, A.Ponkrashov 19+7reb+2ast, M.Bogdanovic 14+4reb+7ast, V.Grachev 13+8reb, E.Karpeko 11+5reb+1ast, P.Lobarev 10
Barnaul: V.Tishin 12+5reb+2ast, B.Suznjev 11+3reb+4ast, B.Mitkin 11+1reb, K.Gornaev 10+6reb+1ast, M.Beloshapko 9+8reb+1ast, D.Ayrich 6+1reb+1ast
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BARS-RGEU – Kupol-Rodniki 71-70
There was an upset in Rostov where higher ranked Kupol-Rodniki (10-13) was edged by fourteenth ranked BARS-RGEU (7-16) 71-70 on Saturday. Point guard Maxim Tkachenko (185-1992, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) fired 18 points and 4 assists for the winners. Dmitriy Doynikov (204-1994) chipped in 10 points and 9 rebounds. Four BARS-RGEU players scored in double figures. Forward Nikolai Zhmako (195-1989, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) produced 11 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists and swingman Artem Kosarev (191-2002) added 16 points respectively for lost side. Both coaches allowed to play bench players in such tough game. BARS-RGEU maintains fourteenth place with 7-16 record, which they share with Dinamo. Loser Kupol-Rodniki keeps the tenth position with 13 games lost. BARS-RGEU will meet higher ranked Chelbasket (#9) in the next round and it will be quite challenging to get another victory. Kupol-Rodniki will play against Barnaul and hope to secure a win.
Top scorers:
BARS-RGEU: M.Tkachenko 18+2reb+4ast, E.Marinin 14+3reb+3ast, M.Krivosheev 11+4reb, D.Doynikov 10+9reb+2ast, A.Krasnogor 6+4ast, R.Matveev 5+1reb+2ast
Kupol-Rodniki: A.Kosarev 16+3reb, N.Zhmako 11+7reb+4ast, D.Karvanen 9+1reb, K.Arkhipov 9+4reb, V.Bobrovskikh 8+3reb+2ast, A.Kuznetcov 6+3reb+4ast
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Dinamo G. – Tambov 79-71
There was a small surprise in Grozny where fifteenth ranked Dinamo (7-16) defeated 13th ranked Tambov (8-15) 79-71 on Saturday. Dinamo shot 22 for 30 from the free-throw line, while Tambov only scored six points from the stripe. The former international guard Maxim Kolyushkin (191-1990) fired 22 points for the winners. The former international power forward Artem Pisarchuk (205-1992) chipped in 13 points and 7 rebounds. Dinamo G.’s coach Nikita Kucherenko used an eleven-player rotation and allowed the starting five to rest. Belarusian power forward Denis Vikentsyev (207-1998) produced 14 points and 8 rebounds and Kazakhstan center Robert Pan (202-1995) added 13 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists respectively for lost side. Four Tambov players scored in double figures. The victory was the fourth consecutive win for Dinamo. They moved-up to fourteenth place, which they share with BARS-RGEU. Loser Tambov dropped to the twelfth position with 15 games lost. They share it with Lok.Kuban. Dinamo will meet higher ranked Irkut (#8) in the next round and it will be quite challenging to get another victory. Tambov will play against Univ.Surgut (#11) and it may be a tough game between close rivals.
Top scorers:
Dinamo G.: M.Kolyushkin 22+4reb+2ast, A.Pisarchuk 13+7reb, A.Kochergin 12+3reb+1ast, V.Likhodey 9+4reb+1ast, V.Martynov 8+5reb+5ast, A.Komissarov 5+4reb+2ast
Tambov: S.Annaev 16+4reb+3ast, A.Rogozenko 15+5reb+1ast, D.Vikentsyev 14+8reb+3ast, R.Pan 13+7reb+4ast, D.Velichkin 6+1ast, P.Novikov 4+2reb+2ast
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Khimki – Metallurg MGN 69-64
Not a big story in a game when 16th ranked Metallurg MGN (6-17) was defeated on the road by third ranked Khimki (17-7) 69-64 on Saturday. However just five-point win is not that big difference and the fans of host team counted on more convincing victory. Forward Alexander Maltsev (200-2002) fired 13 points and 5 rebounds for the winners. Power forward Evgeny Fidiy (208-1991) chipped in 11 points and 6 rebounds. Nikita Remizov (198-2000) produced 13 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists and point guard Pavel Koltsov (180-1994) added 15 points and 4 steals respectively for lost side. Both coaches allowed to play bench players in such tough game. The victory was the third consecutive win for Khimki. They maintain third place with 17-7 record having 130 points less than leader TSU. Metallurg MGN lost their seventh game in a row. Newly promoted team stay at the bottom position with 17 games lost. Khimki will meet league’s second-placed CSKA-2 in the next round and it will be for sure the game of the week. Metallurg MGN will play against Lok.Kuban (#12) and hope to secure a win.
Top scorers:
Khimki: A.Maltsev 13+5reb+1ast, F.Klyuchnikov 12+1reb+5ast, E.Fidiy 11+6reb+1ast, K.Popov 11+3reb, I.Sorokin 7+6reb+3ast, K.Shevchuk 6+2reb+5ast
Metallurg MGN: M.Karvanen 16+1reb+2ast, P.Koltsov 15+2reb+3ast, N.Remizov 13+5reb+5ast, D.Myshalov 7+5reb+2ast, M.Liutych 4+1reb+1ast, S.Rasskazov 3+2reb
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Lok.Kuban – TSU 83-92
Superleague 1 top team – TSU (83-5) managed to deliver another win. This time they beat eleventh ranked Lok.Kuban (8-15) in Krasnodar 92-83. TSU made 22-of-29 charity shots (75.9 percent) during the game. They also forced 19 Lok.Kuban turnovers. TSU players were unselfish on offense dishing 29 assists. Guard Ivan Makarov (195-2003) nailed 22 points for the winning side and point guard Maxim Khoziashev (179-1998, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) accounted for 7 points, 5 rebounds, 12 assists and 6 steals. Guard Daniil Ginko (187-2004) came up with 20 points and 6 assists and center Pavel Ryabkov (202-2006) added 15 points and 4 assists respectively for Lok.Kuban in the defeat. Both coaches tested many bench players which allowed the starters a little rest for the next games. TSU have an impressive series of 66 victories in a row. They maintain first place with 83-5 record. Lok.Kuban lost third consecutive game. They dropped to the twelfth position with 15 games lost. They share it with Tambov. TSU will play against Novosybirsk (#6) in Novosibirsk in the next round which should be theoretically an easy game. Lok.Kuban will play on the road against Metallurg MGN (#16) in Magnitogorsk and hopes to get back on the winning track.
Top scorers:
TSU: I.Makarov 22+2reb+3ast, I.Evstigneev 15+2reb+2ast, D.Ziborov 11+5reb, N.Balashov 9+3reb+1ast, I.Samoylenko 9+2reb+3ast, N.Ivanov 9+3reb+6ast
Lok.Kuban: D.Ginko 20+3reb+6ast, P.Ryabkov 15+3reb+4ast, I.Grushevskiy 11+2reb+5ast, A.Koryakovskiy 10+2reb, D.Kosko 9+8reb+3ast, S.Medvedev 8+6reb
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Novosybirsk – Irkut 64-60
Everything went according to plan in Novosibirsk where sixth ranked Novosybirsk (14-9) beat 9th ranked Irkut (11-12) 64-60 on Saturday. Point guard Sergei Mitusov (194-1996, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) fired 25 points for the winners. American guard CJ White (196-2000, college: UALR) chipped in 11 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists. Aleksandr Ershov (198-2000, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) produced 14 points and 4 assists and forward Andrei Savrasov (201-2000, college: Duquesne, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) added 12 points respectively for lost side. Irkut’s coach Nikolai Shmanov let to play ten players in this game, but that didn’t help. The victory was the fourth consecutive win for Novosybirsk. They maintain sixth place with 14-9 record. Loser Irkut dropped to the eighth position with 12 games lost. They share it with Chelbasket. Novosybirsk will meet league’s leader TSU in the next round and it will be quite challenging to get another victory. Irkut will play against Dinamo (#14) and hope to secure a win.
Top scorers:
Novosybirsk: S.Mitusov 25+3reb+2ast, A.Semenyuk 13+6reb+1ast, C.White 11+9reb+5ast, D.Posashkov 8+2reb+3ast, A.Babushkin 3+7reb+3ast, D.Plugarev 2+3reb+1ast
Irkut: A.Ershov 14+4reb+4ast, A.Savrasov 12+3reb, M.Tikhonenko 8+2reb+1ast, M.Procshenko 7+7reb+1ast, E.Vanin 6+8reb+1ast, K.Savin 5+1reb
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Univ.Surgut – Chelbasket 67-62
There was an upset when higher ranked Chelbasket (11-12) was defeated on the road by twelfth ranked Univ.Surgut (9-14) 67-62 on Saturday. Univ.Surgut made 22-of-25 free shots (88.0 percent) during the game. The former international swingman Igor Smygin (197-1987) fired 12 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists for the winners. Kazakhstan center Vladimir Ivanov (208-1994) chipped in 11 points and 5 rebounds. Univ.Surgut’s coach Artem Olkhov used entire bench in such tough game. Point guard Andrey Toptunov (183-2002) produced 14 points and 4 assists and forward Daniil Kochergin (207-1999, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) added 11 points and 9 rebounds respectively for lost side. Univ.Surgut moved-up to eleventh place. Loser Chelbasket dropped to the eighth position with 12 games lost. They share it with Irkut. Univ.Surgut will meet Tambov (#13) on the road in the next round. Chelbasket will play against BARS-RGEU (#15) and hope to secure a win.
Top scorers:
Univ.Surgut: I.Smygin 12+6reb+4ast, V.Ivanov 11+5reb+1ast, Y.Bestuzhev 10+4reb+2ast, I.Samsonov 9+1reb+1ast, K.Salmin 6+6reb+1ast, A.Hakunov 6+2reb
Chelbasket: A.Toptunov 14+3reb+4ast, D.Kochergin 11+9reb, A.Lavnikov 11+6reb+2ast, D.Yakunin 7+1reb, Y.Pechendgiyan 6+4reb, D.Nezvankin 5+1ast
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Zenit-2 – CSKA-2 81-78
The most exciting game of round 25 in the Superleague 1 took place in Saint Petersburg. This derby game ended with only three-point defeat on the road of much higher ranked CSKA-2 (18-6) to fourth ranked Zenit-2 (16-8) 81-78 on Saturday evening. It ended at the same time the three-game winning streak of CSKA-2. Center Egor Ryzhov (210-2004, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) stepped up with a double-double by scoring 16 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists for the winners and guard Ivan Prokopenko (186-2004, agency: Stanislav Ryzhov) chipped in 21 points (on 9-of-11 shooting from the field). At the losing side Alexandr Evseev (205-2002) responded with 14 points and 7 rebounds and point guard Ilia Ermakov (191-2007) scored 13 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists. Five CSKA-2 players scored in double figures. Both coaches used bench players in such tough game. Zenit-2 maintains fourth place with 16-8 record. CSKA-2 at the other side keeps the second position with six games lost. Zenit-2 are looking forward to face Dinamo (#5) in Vladivostok in the next round. CSKA-2 will play at home against Khimki and it may be a tough game between close rivals.
Top scorers:
Zenit-2: I.Prokopenko 21+4reb+1ast, E.Ryzhov 16+13reb+5ast, D.Aksenov 16+4reb+6ast, A.Khodorich 9+4reb+1ast, M.Dulkay 9+1reb, P.Zemskiy 7+8reb+1ast
CSKA-2: A.Evseev 14+7reb+1ast, I.Ermakov 13+5reb+4ast, D.Klyuchenkov 12+7reb, M.Ilvovskiy 12+5reb+3ast, I.Zaytsev 10+1reb+8ast, Y.Nikonov 8+4reb
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