The first victory of «Azovmash» and first defeat of «Lietuvos Rytas»
13
october
2011
Vtb-league.com
The Ukrainian «Azovmash», cheered on by the fans, rehabilitated for defeat from «Asseco Prokom» and won the Lithuanian «Lietuvos Rytas» at home arena.
«Lietuvos Rytas» has not an easy schedule of the tournament start: Triple trip to Krasnodar — Mariupol — Minsk, during this period the team will play three games in five days. After the game with «Lokomotiv» Alexandr Dzicic said: «We have a difficult schedule, but, on the other hand, the victory in Krasnodar — a good compensation for difficulties».
After playing with «Azovmash» the Serbian specialist probably will take his words back. Anyway «Azovmash» started the match very aggressively. Two jerks in first quarter — 9:0 and 6:0 — helped the home team to take the lead. Oleksiy Pecherov played great and neither Predrag Smaradziski nor Jonas Valanciunas could stop him. The guards acted more successfully in the visiting team, but this was only enough to close the gap to 4 points — 34:30. And then Pecherov scored 7 points in succession (2 accurate three point shots of 3 per match).
In the second half George Ewing started to act successfully in «Azovmash». The home team several times managed to increased the gap, and then the visiting closed the gap again, but each time it was «-5». Smaradziski and Lawrence Roberts dominated in rebounds (45:34), but this was not enough to Lithuanian club. «Lietuvos Rytas» players too often failed to score three point shots: Tyrese Rice has only one accurate throw out of 6, the whole team has 3 out of 16.
Finally, the outcome of the match had been decided after inaccurate three-point — performed by Steponas Babrauskas 40 seconds before the end when the score was 76:71. After that Pecherov scored both free throws and brought «Azovmash» the first victory in this VTB United League season — the final score 83:73. Ewing has 15 points, Pecherov — 12. The best snipers in «Lietuvos Rytas» are Renaldas Seibutis (18) and Rice (12).
Source
http://www.vtb-league.com/en/news/azovmash-pervaya-pobeda...