Our team headed by Rostislav Vergona started with Saddler-Meshcharakou-Liutych-Sarikopoulos-Rush. By the way, for American defender, this was the first appearance as a player start five.
Khimki started the game confidently, forcing our coach take a time-out in the second minute of the match. Pause worked and Tsmoki went to the first break in the status of the leader – 19:18.
The second quarter began for Minsk not in a good way - 4 points in 6 minutes. But Khimki had already 4 team fouls. Unfourtunatly, Tsmoki made 11 losses to a big break. Perhaps this has become a key component in the game with the Moscow team.
After the big break Tsmoki made a mini-spurt 4-0, equalized and sent hosts on a minute pause. Unfortunately for our team, then the game went according to the plan of "Khimki".They won the meet with a final 70:50.
The best players of the "Dragons" became Vitaly Liutychc - 15 points, Zisis Sarikopoulos made double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Khimki – Tsmoki-Minsk - 50:70 (19-18, 11-16, 10-22, 10-14)
Tsmoki-Minsk: Sadler (12+6 assists), Rush (2), Trostinetski (2), Meshcharakou (2), Liutych (15), Sarikopoulos (12+10 rebounds), Kudryutsau (0), Vabishchevich (0), Paliashchuk (3), Sitnik (2).
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