«Khimki»: ready to play with UNICS!
14
october
2011
Vtb-league.com
The Current champion of VTB United League –Russian «Khimki» gained a confident victory over «Kalev» in Estonia. On Sunday «Khimki» will play with UNICS for the first place in Group A.
Like in the match with Latvian VEF, «Khimki» club immediately demonstrated his championship ambitions. Timofey Mozgov and Christopher Quinn organized The Starting spurt «6-0» and they continued it – «13:5» after the second three-point shot of the American player. And in the first quarter the head coach of «Khimki» Rimas Kurtinaitis let a 22-year-old sniper Anton Pushkov play. Anton got the chance to prove himself while Kresimir Loncar was absent — and brilliantly used his it, scoring 9 points and making 5 rebounds just in 16 minutes.
Throughout the match «Khimki» was leading and at the beginning of the second half increased the advantage to «+20» points. For one team the ending of the match turned out to be a torture but for the other team it was a spectacular opportunity to demonstrate various elements of basketball. Well, the latest intrigue – whether the current champions would be able to make a three digit advantage-resolved Zoran Planinic. Horvath, who played the first game this season (he missed the beginning due to injury), nearly became the best sniper of the game. To catch up with Mozgov he just had to get one point (14 vs. 15). The Most productive in «Kalev» with 13 points became Gregor Arbet.
The Final score — 100:68 in favor of «Khimki». By the way, before the game with UNICS for leadership in group A (now both teams have with two wins in two games) «Khimki» beat the score record in terms of the difference in the final match of VTB United League -2011/12. By the way, the former achievement belonged to the Kazan club («+26» points in the game with «Nizhniy Novgorod»).
Source
http://www.vtb-league.com/en/news/himki-k-uniksu-gotovy.htm