1:0 to MBA
"Pari Nizhniy Novgorod" — one of the teams with whom MBA already played this season. The game on Kondrashin and Belov Cup was won by Moscow team, 69:66.
Roster changes
Some of the players left "Pari Nizhniy Novgorod" before the season: Anton Astapkovich moved to CSKA, Sergey Toropov - to "Zenit", Mikhail Kulagin - to UNICS, Pavel Antipov - to "PARMA-PARI", Ilya Platonov - to MBA. The club signed new contracts with Dmitriy Khvostov and Evgeniy Baburin, some new players came: Anton Ponkrashov, Maksim Karvanen, Vitaliy Liutych, Maksim Salash, Jermaine Love, Dragan Apic, Divine Myles and Nikola Jovanovich. Nicola has already signed a contract with "Pari Nizhniy Novgorod" last season, but was injured for long term and leave the team.
Current 4th place
The start of the season not so easy for our opponent: for the one hand, current 4th place and 4 wins in 6 games. For the other hand, big loss vs league's rookie "Samara" and negative "+/-" index. It's also interesting, that "Pari Nizhniy Novgorod" won only one game at home from three.
Team's leader
Jermaine Love — key player for "Pari Nizhniy Novgorod". American point guard have almost 28 minutes on the court and 16.5 points per game (the best result in the team).
The quote
Vasiliy Karasev: "We have tough schedule, we didn't have a chance for day-off after UNICS and started the preparation to "Pari Nizhniy Novgorod". The main goal is to recover. We don't want to complain, all teams have the same terms. I think it's difficult to compare upcoming game and the game during pre-season - "Pari Nizhniy Novgorod" plays little bit different way now. In any case, we are going to battle for the win"
