2014-15Last 32Round 2
January 14, 2015 CET: 17:00
Local time: 19:00 BASKET HALL KAZAN

Unics beats Nymburk, gets first Eurocup win

Keith Langford - Unics Kazan - EC14 (photo Unics - Nurislam Ismagilov)

Unics Kazan registered its first Eurocup victory this season by downing CEZ Basketball Nymburk 75-67 at home in Group G on Wednesday. Unics improved to 1-1 in Group G while Nymburk dropped to 0-2. Keith Langford led 6 Unics players in double digits with 14 points. Sergey Bykov, James White and Pavel Antipov each added 11 while Curtis Jerrells and Kostas Kaimakoglou had 10 apiece for Unics. Tre Simmons led Nymburk with 17 points. Darius Washington added 15 while Petr Benda and Christian Burns each had 10 for the guests. Benda and Burns shined early to give Nymburk a 9-15 margin. Langford and White brought Unics within 16-19 after 10 minutes. Unics improved its defense but an outstanding Burns Nymburk made it a two-point game, 33-31, at halftime. Simmons had 6 points in an 0-8 run which put Nymburk back ahead, 42-43. Langford and an outstanding Bykov allowed Unics to get a 60-52 margin with 7 minutes left. A jumper by Pavel Houska made it a four-point game, 60-56, but Kaimakoglou and Bykov struck from downtown to seal the outcome long before the final buzzer.

Garrett Stutz and Jerrells traded layups in the opening minutes and a put-back basket by Viktor Sanikidze gave Unics a 4-2 lead. Simmons and Benda soon gave Nymburk its first lead, 5-6. Langford made free throws which Burns bettered with a triple and a backdoor layup. Antipov sank foul shots, Benda shined with a put-back basket and a layup by Tomas Pomikalek made Unics call timeout at 9-15. Pomikalek scored again and Washington added a layup off a steal but Langford and White brought Unics within 16-19 after 10 minutes. Antipov finished a five-chance Unics offense with free throws which Anton Ponkrashov followed with a put-back basket to put the hosts back ahead, 20-19. Benda and Jerrells exchanged baskets and a three-pointer by Ponkrashov gave Unics fresh air at 25-21. Benda hit a fallaway jumper, White nailed a six-meter shot off the dribble and Simmons struck from downtown for a 27-26 Nymburk deficit. White Kaimakoglou buried back-to-back triples but Burns kept the guests within 33-31 at halftime. Antipov scored again after the break and soon added a jumper for a 37-32 Unics lead. Jerrells scored around the basket and a three-pointer by Antipov kept Unics way ahead, 42-35. Nymburk found a go-to guy in Simmons, who had 6 points in an 0-8 run put gave the guests a 42-43 edge. Langford stepped up for Unics and got help from Kaimakoglou to give the hosts a 50-46 edge. Lubon Barton and Pomikalek kept Nymburk within 54-50 after 30 minutes. Bykov followed a triple with a jumper early in the fourth quarter to make it an eight-point game, 60-52, with 7 minutes left. Washington and Houska tried to change things for Nymburk but three-pointers by Kaimakoglou and Bykov sealed the outcome, 64-56, with over 3 minutes left, as the guests never recovered.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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Referees: ZAMOJSKI, JAKUB; RADOJKOVIC, JOSIP ; JURAS, JASMINA
Attendance: 2500 (Tentative)
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Unics Kazan16335475
CEZ Basketball Nymburk19315067
Unics Kazan
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 WHITE, JAMES 28:17 11 3/6 1/3 2/2   4 4 2 1 2     1 3 13
5 LANGFORD, KEITH 25:25 14 3/5 0/3 8/9 1 2 3 2   4     1 4 12
7 PONKRASHOV, ANTON 11:55 5 1/1 1/2   1   1   1 4     1   1
10 BYKOV, SERGEY 17:01 11 1/2 2/3 3/4   1 1 1 2       5 3 10
11 LIKHODEI, VALERII DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
12 PANIN, VADIM DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
13 SANIKIDZE, VIKTOR 10:10 3 1/3 0/1 1/4 4 3 7 1         1 2 6
15 GUBANOV, PETR DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 SOKOLOV, DMITRY 3:01       0/2                   1 -1
21 KAIMAKOGLOU, KOSTAS 31:17 10 2/6 2/5   3 7 10 2 1 2       1 15
22 ANTIPOV, PAVEL 35:32 11 2/6 1/1 4/4 6 7 13 2   2   2 1 4 21
55 JERRELLS, CURTIS 37:22 10 4/5 0/5 2/2 1 3 4 4 1 5     2 1 7
Team           2 1 3               3
Totals 200:00 75 17/34 7/23 20/27 18 28 46 14 6 19 0 2 12 19 87
        50% 30.4% 74.1%
Head coach: PASHUTIN, EVGENY
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
CEZ Basketball Nymburk
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 BENDA, PETR 27:00 10 5/8     1 3 4 1 1       4   9
5 RAIVIO, DEREK 16:53   0/1 0/1         2 1           1
6 WASHINGTON, DARIUS 29:14 15 4/8 0/3 7/9   1 1 4 2 2     2 8 17
7 HRUBAN, VOJTECH 17:42 3   1/3             2     1   -2
10 HOUSKA, PAVEL 9:00 2 1/3 0/2     1 1           1   -2
11 SIMMONS, TRE 33:17 17 2/4 4/6 1/1   2 2 4 3 3     2 1 18
15 BARTON, LUBOS 7:53 2 1/1                     3   -1
16 BENNETT, STEVEN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
23 BURNS, CHRISTIAN 30:38 10 3/9 1/2 1/1 2 1 3 2 5 3     4 1 7
31 KRIZ, MARTIN 2:28       0/1   2 2 1 1 1 1       3
41 STUTZ, GARRETT 3:01 2 1/2     1 1 2           1   2
55 POMIKALEK, TOMAS 22:54 6 3/5 0/1   1 4 5 1   1 1   2 1 8
Team           1 3 4               4
Totals 200:00 67 20/41 6/18 9/12 6 18 24 15 13 12 2 0 20 11 64
        48.8% 33.3% 75%
Head coach: KEMZURA, KESTUTIS

Head Coaches

PASHUTIN, EVGENY
Unics Kazan
"I am pleased. My team played team basketball and had a secure defense. It is very important that we have won the rebounds, 46 to 24, today. But we have made a number of mistakes, which did not give us the opportunity to significantly increase our advantage. Our mistakes were the result of the aggresive defense of our opponent. Besides that, our players lost concentration at times. To be able to compete with Nymburk, which plays pretty fast, we did not play our center today, counting on two power forwards. This win gives us a chance to continue fighting to advance, and we will need victories in all the rest of the games."
KEMZURA, KESTUTIS
CEZ Basketball Nymburk
"We started the game pretty well in the first quarter, and could have won it by a bigger difference. In the second quarter, we made some mistakes and took shots that were not set up well, and this is why Unics very soon caught us. For some time we competed, and we did well thanks to our good defense. Unfortunately, we did not cope with the rebounds today. Unics had 18 offensive rebounds. Besides that, a number of times in crucial moments we lost the ball and didn't always complete the combinations. It is not possible to play teams like Unics in this way."
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