Today, Aliaksei Sukhavetsky's team played the penultimate home match of the season against Avtodor at the Falcon Club home arena. Unfortunately, Minsk residents could not please their fans with another victory, the final score – 62:82 (10:15, 15:26, 15:13, 22:28).
The starting five:
MINSK: Grigory Motovilov, Vadzim Stubeda, Jovan Sljivancanin, Jacob Cebasek, Dmitry Kuratnik.
Avtodor: Sindarius Thornwell, Dusan Beslach, Alexander Petenev, Rayshon Hammonds, Dominic Mavra.
The course of the game
At the beginning of the match, the Minsk residents stubbornly opposed the Saratov team and responded with effective attacks. Vadzim Stubeda has repeatedly made accurate hits from an average distance in our team. On the first break, the opponents left with a score of 10:15. In the second quarter, the players “Avtodor” took a faster pace than the Minsk residents. As part of MINSK, Jakob Cebasek and Jovan Sljivancanin made several accurate shots, but the subsequent offensive misses from Aliaksei Sukhovetsky's wards led to a double-digit gap in the score on the scoreboard by the big break – 25:41.
In the third quarter, MINSK began to work more actively in defense and made more effective attacks than the opponent. Jakob Cebasek, Grigory Motovilov and Ivan Aladko brought several points to the team standings when shooting from the penalty line, and Jovan Sljivancanin scored an accurate three. The teams went to the final break with a score of 40:54.
Interchange
To win, Minsk residents would have had to make several jerks in the last quarter when scoring points, but Milenko Bogichevich's team responded with aggressive resistance, not giving our players the opportunity to reduce the gap in the score. The match ended with Avtodor's victory with a score of 82:62.
The most effective:
MINSK: Jovan Sljivancanin – 16 + 8 REB + 1 STL + 2 block, Dmitry Kuratnik – 10 + 3 REB + 1 STL + 1 block, Jakob Cebasek – 9 + 3 REB + 3 AST.
Avtodor: Rayshon Hammonds – 20 + 7 REB, Sindarius Thornwell – 15 + 6 REB + 2 AST + 3 STL + 1 block, Malik Newman – 14 + 6 REB + 2 AST + 1 block.
MINSK head coach Aliaksei Sukhavetsky: “I would like to apologize to the fans for such a game. Today we definitely did not have enough freshness, energy, we left too much of it in the game against Uralmash. With the move, there was not enough time to recover. We had a lot of open attacks, we didn't implement them. With such a percentage of “three-pointers”, having given 15 rebounds on his shield, it is difficult to calculate a positive result. We will recover and prepare for the next game.”
This Saturday, April 6, Minsk residents will play the final home match of the season at the Falcon Club Arena against Pari Nizhny Novgorod. The match starts at 14:30. We invite you to support our team! Tickets are available on the website and at points of sale kvitki.by .