2013-14Regular SeasonRound 8
December 03, 2013 CET: 18:00
Local time: 19:00 OLYMP
Matt Gatens - Khimik Yuzhne - EC13 (photo Khimik Yuzhne)Khimik Yuzhne got back to its winning ways, topping Alba Fehervar 81-52 and putting one foot in the next round on Tuesday. Win improves Khimik to 5-3 in Group F, and it will advance to the Last 32 if PAOK beats Aykon TED Ankara Kolejliler on Wednesday. Meanwhile, this loss eliminated Alba, dropping it to 1-7 in the last place. The hosts took control early on, and used a 9-0 run in the second quarter for 37-25 halftime lead. With a series of triples from Matt Gatens, Khimik pulled away to a 27-point lead late in the third quarter, and cruised to a key win. Gatens hit 5 triples on his way to 17 points, while Rolands Freimanis had 14 points plus 7 rebounds, and Paul Delaney had 14 points plus 6 rebounds. Gergely Somogyi amassed 20 points and 11 rebounds for Alba Fehervar, while Bryadon Hobbs finished with 11 in defeat.

Romeo Travis and Delaney got Khimik's offense going, while Ramone Moore paced Alba with 7 points to a 13-13 tie early on. With a layup and a three-pointer from Freimanis, and with Gatens hitting a triple of his own, the hosts took 23-16 lead after 10 minutes. Both teams struggled to score at the start of the second quarter, before Travis scored on a fastbreak, and Vitaliy Kovalenko and Gatens nailed a three-pointer apiece for 34-20. After Somogyi snapped a 9-0 run with a put-back, Travis and Maurice Kemp traded triples for 37-25 at halftime. After the break, Khimik started to put the game out of reach. Delaney strung together 7 points, with a put-back and with a pair of steals that led to dunks and 47-29. Hobbs hit a triple, and a layup from Somogyi kept alive hope for the visitors, but Gatens nailed back-to-back threes, and after a layup from Travis, Gatens added another one from long range, followed by a triple from Freimanis and 63-36 late in the third quarter. While Kemp and Somogyi scored baskets for the visitors in the fourth quarter, triples from Oleksandr Riabchuk and Oleksandr Prokopenko extended it to 71-42, and couple of layups from Kovalenko and one from Freimanis helped make it the largest margin of the night, 81-46, before Hobbs and Somogyi rounded out the scoring in the final minute.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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Referees: JERSAN, ANDREJ; DRAGOJEVIC, IGOR; RADOJKOVIC, JOSIP
Attendance: 1000 (Tentative)
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Khimik Yuzhne
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 POPOV, SERGIY 3:06   0/1                         -1
5 GATENS, MATT 24:27 17 1/2 5/9   1 1 2 1 2 2   1 2   12
6 KOVALENKO, VITALIY 14:58 9 3/5 1/3   1 2 3   1 1 2   2 1 9
7 SHULER, JAMAL 20:35 3 0/1 1/1     2 2 7 1 1     2   9
8 FREIMANIS, ROLANDS 20:33 14 4/7 2/5   4 3 7 3       1 2 1 16
9 TRAVIS, ROMEO 22:05 9 3/6 1/3   1 4 5 1 2 1     1   10
11 ZAVADSKYI, STANISLAV 11:21 4 2/6 0/1 0/2 3 3 6     2   2   1  
14 DELANEY, PAUL 23:21 14 5/6   4/5 1 1 2 3 2 1 1     4 23
15 PUSTOVYI, ARTEM 10:41 3 1/6   1/2 2 1 3 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 -2
21 PROKOPENKO, OLEKSANDR 8:25 3 0/1 1/2     1 1 1       1   2 4
22 RIABCHUK, OLEKSANDR 25:04 3 0/1 1/5     6 6 4 4 1     2 3 12
24 KONIEV, VOLODYMYR 15:24 2 1/1 0/1   1 3 4     1     1   3
Team           2 1 3     1         2
Totals 200:00 81 20/43 12/30 5/9 16 28 44 21 13 13 5 7 15 13 97
        46.5% 40% 55.6%
Head coach: MUIZNIEKS,KARLIS
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
Alba Fehervar
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 KEMP, MAURICE 19:57 5 1/8 1/1     1 1 1   4     2 1 -5
5 SZANATI, MATYAS 15:04 2 1/4 0/1   1 2 3 2   1   1 1 1 1
6 HOBBS, BRAYDON 19:32 11 3/6 1/3 2/2 1 2 3 4       1   2 14
7 OLAH, ANTHONY 14:22     0/3   1   1   3 2         -1
8 JUHOS, LEVENTE 23:43 4 1/5 0/1 2/2 2 3 5 2   1 3 1 2 1 6
10 MOORE, RAMONE 18:17 7 1/6 1/2 2/2 4 4 8 1   1     1 3 11
11 TOTH, PETER 20:15         2 3 5 4   3     2   4
12 SOMOGYI, GERGELY 25:44 20 10/18     4 7 11   1 2 4 2 2 3 25
13 TOTH, NORBERT 25:39 3 1/5 0/1 1/2 1 1 2   4 4     2 3  
15 SUPOLA, ZOLTAN 12:42     0/3                   1 1 -3
21 BLASKOVITS, LASZLO 4:45                              
Team           1 4 5     2         3
Totals 200:00 52 18/52 3/15 7/8 17 27 44 14 8 20 7 5 13 15 55
        34.6% 20% 87.5%
Head coach: FRADE, CARLOS

Head Coaches

MUIZNIEKS,KARLIS
Khimik Yuzhne
"The result of the game may suggest that we have won easily, but it is not true. I want to pay tribute to Alba Fehervar. Game was from the very beginning nervous, despite the fact that we tried to take matters into our own hands, we were not always successful, and that is certainly to the credit of our opponent. Today, it was very important to keep the concentration. We did it. Our team worked well today, and it pleases me."
FRADE, CARLOS
Alba Fehervar
"I congratulate Khimik, it is a very good team, that played a very good game. They showed us a completely different level of physical readiness. They played very good defense and half-court pressure. I'm not happy with my team's game today, if we want to play with teams such as Khimik, we need to do more work. Good luck to Khimik in Eurocup, I wish them to reach the next round of the competition."

Players

GATENS, MATT
Khimik Yuzhne
"Good victory, an important victory in the Eurocup for our team. I am proud how hard our guys played today. Every game is important for us, and we want win every game."
TOTH, PETER
Alba Fehervar
"We were focused on the game in the very beginning. We have done those things which agreed on before the game. In the second half, we had a series of turnovers, that allowed our opponent to earn easy points."
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