MBA started the game with the following five: Makar Konovalov, Timofey Yakushin, Ilya Platonov, Andrey Lopatin and Anton Pushkov. Red-white played like usual in the beginnig: after good defence they went to fast break. Anyway, our team didn't have big advantage after 1st quarter - 19:16.
The second quarter started not so good for "MINSK" - guests didn't score for 4 minutes. MBA had good 3-points shots percentage - 6 from 12. The most memorable was Lopatin's shot with the buzzer about the end of the first half.
Playing home, MBA doesn't want to calm - our players tried to increase the difference. But after the third quarter moscow team had the same advantage, "+18".
In the last 10 minutes there were no questions about the winner. MBA continued to keep not only the difference, but 3-points shots percentage - 11 from 25 (44%). Ilya Platonov made double-double (10 points, 11 rebounds).
MBA:
Alexander Khomenko (14 points), Makar Konovalov (11 points), Evgeniy Valiev (10 points), Ilya Platonov (10 points, 11 rebounds), Timofey Yakushin (9 points), Daniil Kasatkin (8 points), Anton Pushkov (8 points, 4 подбора), Evgeniy Voronov (6 points, 5 assists), Andrey Lopatin (5 points, 9 rebounds), Sergey Kliuev, Vladislav Sharapov, Vladislav Odinokov.
