2012-13Last 16Round 1
January 09, 2013 CET: 17:00
Local time: 20:00 YUBILEYNI "SPORT" PALACE
Derrick Brown - Lokomotiv Kuban - EC12 (photo Spartak St. Petersburg)Lokomotiv Kuban took the all-Russian duel in the Last 16 opening week at Spartak St. Petersburg by 70-84 on Wednesday night. The win allows Loko to start with a 1-0 record in Group K, while Spartak is 0-1. Despite a strong Kuban start, Spartak reacted and even jumped ahead at 27-26, but Kuban was back in business soon and a timely 0-9 burst allowed them to jump ahead again and manage the lead from there. Derrick Brown led the winners with 21 points, Simas Jasaitis added 15, Aleks Maric 14, Jimmy Baron 13 and Nick Calathes 12. For Spartak, Loukas Mavrokefalides led the way with 20 points and 9 boards, Zach Wright added 16 and Janis Strelnieks contributed 11. Spartak's 1 of 17 was a heavy burden to bear throughout the game while Loko's 23 assists made the difference in the difficult moments.

Fedor Dmitriev was the first man to appear in the game with four straight points that put Spartak SPB with a 6-3 edge. However, Lokomotiv Kuban reacted fast and Simas Jasaitis put the first lead change in the score with his bucket for 6-7 after his own offensive rebound. Kuban's scoring run escalated to 2-12 as Aleks Marc slammed and accompanied it with a complimentary free throw for 8-16 in minute 5. The guests were already up to 5 assists against just 1 by the hosts. Spartak was trying to hold on, but Nick Calathes rised for two straight threes that increased Kuban's lead to a 10-24 that was more than a serious warning for the hosts. Derrick Brown put an end to the first quarter with two free throws for the guests making it a 10-26 Kuban deal. Things could not be more different at the start of the second period. With a 15-0 run mainly by Loukas Mavrokefalides, Spartak was suddenly back in business with a 25-26 in less then 5 minutes and later 27-26 with Joshua Carter's bucket closing the scoring run at 17-0. Loko regrouped just in time with Jimmy Baron's three, and in the last minutes of the second period, the guests managed to amass a 0-9 scoring run that allowed them to hit the halftime break with a 33-44 edge. A 0 of 7 from the arc was seriously burdening Spartak while Kuban's 11 of 15 from the line was a great asset at that point.

Defenses started strong in the second half, but Lokomotiv was still increasing the gap little by little. Between Jasaitis and Maric the lead of the guests increased to 37-53 after the former's three. A late pull by Spartak in the tthird quarter allowed the hosts to trim the deficit back to 10 points, 52-62, after 30 minutes thanks to Mavrokefalides' antics again. The first steps of the last quarter saw both teams as balanced as ever in the game. With a 8-8 starting partial, the gap was staying at 10 points, 60-70. Despite suffering a bit from turnovers, Lokomotiv Kuban was lucky that Spartak was still stuck at 1 of 14 from three-point land and also had a worse percentage in two-pointers. The game entered the last minutes with the same situation as with 150 second to go, the gap was still 10 points, 66-76 after Vladimir Dragicevic's layup. However, a 2-6 late burst including four points by Brown made it 68-82 as it was clear that there was no stopping Lokomotiv in this game.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
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Referees: LATISEVS, OLEGS; CHEBYSHEV, SERGIY; LUCIS, OSKARS
Attendance: 800 (Tentative)
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Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar26181822
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Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar26446284
Spartak St Petersburg
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 STRELNIEKS, JANIS 32:45 11 3/4 1/5 2/3       4 1 2     1 1 8
8 WRIGHT, ZACK 36:58 16 8/11 0/1   3 2 5 3 3 4 3   3 3 22
9 ZAVOUREV, VASILY 22:12   0/1 0/3     1 1 5         1 1 2
11 CARTER, JOSH 27:14 6 3/3 0/6 0/1 2 5 7     1 1   4 1 3
12 MAVROKEFALIDIS, LOUKAS 36:12 20 9/17   2/4 2 7 9   1       2 5 23
14 KNIAZIUK, ALEKSANDR DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15 KOROLEV, YAROSLAV 5:44 2 1/3 0/1   1 1 2             1 2
19 FIDII, EVGENY DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 DRAGICEVIC, VLADIMIR 13:59 9 3/4   3/4   4 4 1 2 2     4 2 10
22 DMITRIEV, FEDOR 4:51 4 2/2                     4    
25 IURCHIK, VALENTIN 1:10                              
41 KURBANOV, NIKITA 18:55 2 1/2 0/1         2 1 2     4 2 -1
Team                     1         -1
Totals 200:00 70 30/47 1/17 7/12 8 20 28 15 8 12 4 0 23 16 68
        63.8% 5.9% 58.3%
Head coach: ZDOVC, JURE
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 GRIGORYEV, MAXIM DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
5 BROWN, DERRICK 38:39 21 9/14 0/1 3/3   4 4 3 2 2   2 2 3 21
8 SAVRASENKO, ALEKSEY 7:58   0/1     1   1     2     3   -5
9 KALNIETIS, MANTAS 28:50 8 2/4 1/2 1/1   6 6 5   3     2 3 14
10 BYKOV, SERGEY DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 LIKHODEI, VALERII DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
12 ZUBKOV, ANDREY 1:21                              
13 JASAITIS, SIMAS 34:48 15 6/6 1/4   2 5 7 3 2 1     2 1 22
15 BARON, JIMMY 19:27 13   3/7 4/4   1 1     1     1 2 10
22 MARIC, ALEKS 32:02 14 5/7   4/7   9 9 5       1 3 10 29
33 CALATHES, NICK 31:59 12 2/5 2/3 2/4 2 1 3 7 2 2   1 3 3 15
45 SHELEKETO, MAKSIM 4:56 1 0/1   1/2   1 1             1 1
Team                     2         -2
Totals 200:00 84 24/38 7/17 15/21 5 27 32 23 6 13 0 4 16 23 105
        63.2% 41.2% 71.4%
Head coach: PASHUTIN, EVGENY

Head Coaches

ZDOVC, JURE
Spartak St Petersburg
"What can I say? We started the game in a terrible way. Today Lokomotiv was better team than us. We could have come back after the terrible start, but the players were tired, we spent a lot of energy for this and had problems with fouls. My plan was to rotate a lot of players, but when we lost the first quarter 10:26, I was afraid to put those players on the court who weren’t yet in our system."
PASHUTIN, EVGENY
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar
"I want to congratulate my players. They were ready in the mental aspect and played active defense as we planned from the beginning. We didn’t start well the previous game with Zalgiris and the new year break wasn’t good for us. Today it was important for us to return the game and to play good in defense. Now we have to prepare for another Eurocup game because every team can make a surprise."

Players

ZAVOUREV, VASILY
Spartak St Petersburg
"Today we lost in all aspects of the game. Lokomotiv was better in everything. We haven’t allowed another team to score 84 points before. To score more points than that we would have needed to play crazy basketball and make almost every shot we attempted. But we couldn’t do that."