MBA starting five in this game: Alexander Khomenko, Timofey Yakushin, Ilya Platonov, Andrey Lopatin and Anton Pushkov. Both teams started so productive - they scored 47 points together in 1st quarter. Evgeniy Voronov and Vladislav Sharapov scored their first points in the new season.
In the second quarter MBA players started to play the way Vasiliy Karasev they asked to - good defence and fast breaks. "Astana" owned problems not only with field goals, but also with free shots: Mike Myers missed 4 in a row. 14:0 run gave MBA "+10" before the brake.
The start of the second half became showtime of Evgeniy Valiev. He scored, made a steal, shot, rebound and scored again in 8 seconds! During 3rd quarter MBA advantage went to "+21".
In the last 10 minutes MBA had opportunity to calm the game or to make first 100-points match in VTB League participation history. Our players decided to overcome this line with 3-points shots: in eight minutes they scored 20 points, 6 long distance shots and two free shots. 30 seconds before the end of the game Sergey Klyuev scored historical two points and MBA reached 100 points. Final score - 103:69.
