2014-15Last 32Round 5
February 04, 2015 CET: 19:00
Local time: 21:00 SIBUR ARENA

Nymburk wins big on the road to stay alive

Vojtech Hruban - CEZ Basketball Nymburk - EC14 (photo Zenit)

CEZ Basketball Nymburk led from start to finish en route to 63-84 road win over Zenit St Petersburg, keeping alive its eighthfinals chances. It's a second consecutive victory for the Czech champs, improving them to 2-3 record in Group G, the same as Zenit, and both teams will need to win next week in order to have a chance of advancing. Nymburk now also holds a tie break advantage over Zenit, having overcome a 12-point home loss from Round 1. Nymburk built a double-digit lead with a strong finish of the first quarter, then broke the game open with a 0-9 third quarter run that gave the visitors their biggest lead of the night, 44-67. Nymburk never looked back, as Christian Burn paced the winners with 16 points, Tre Simmons netted 14, while Darius Washington and Vojtech Hruban each had 13 for Nymburk. Walter Hodge scored 15 for the hosts, Artem Vikhrov had 12, while Dejan Borovnjak collected 11 points and 9 rebounds in defeat.

The entire starting lineup contributed, and Burns scored a pair of baskets as Nymburk opened the contest with 1-8 lead. Hodge had a layup and a three-pointer for the hosts, before feeding Pavel Spridonov to cut the deficit to 12-14. But Washington hit from downtown, and Burns had a fastbreak layup in a run capped by back-to-back triples from Simmons and Derek Raivio for 18-29 after 10 minutes. Zenit scored on four consecutive trips down the floor to start the second quarter, but another Raivio triple helped keep the margin in double figures. A three from Pavel Houska and a basket-plus-foul from Burns helped extended it to 31-46, but Spiridonov nailed a triple to end a half, and cut it to 38-48.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015
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Referees: LATISEVS, OLEGS; MARICIC,SASA; VOVK, TOMISLAV
Attendance: 2000 (Tentative)
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Zenit St Petersburg18201015
CEZ Basketball Nymburk29191917
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Zenit St Petersburg18384863
CEZ Basketball Nymburk29486784
Zenit St Petersburg
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
3 KULAGIN, DMITRY 10:54   0/1 0/2     1 1     3 1     1 -3
9 JONES, CAMERON 16:44 4 1/3 0/2 2/2   2 2     1     1 2 2
10 BABUSHKIN, ALEKSEI 0:15                              
11 KOMOLOV, ARTEM 20:29 2 1/1 0/3 0/2       1   1     2 1 -4
13 VIKHROV, ARTEM 26:30 12 3/5 2/2         3 1 1       3 16
14 BOROVNJAK, DEJAN 25:06 11 5/7   1/2 4 5 9 2 1 2 1   1 2 20
15 HODGE, WALTER 20:40 15 4/6 2/4 1/1   2 2 4   5   1 4 3 10
18 SPIRIDONOV, PAVEL 29:57 7 2/3 1/3   2 4 6 1   4     1   6
30 STEPHENS, DALENTA 25:48 8 4/7       3 3     2 2   1   7
31 VALIEV, EVGENY 6:20 1 0/1   1/2 2   2 1     1     1 4
33 LANDRY, KYLE 17:17 3 0/2 0/1 3/4 1 4 5 3 2       3 3 9
Team           1 1 2               2
Totals 200:00 63 20/36 5/17 8/13 10 22 32 15 4 19 5 1 13 16 69
        55.6% 29.4% 61.5%
Head coach: KARASEV, VASILY
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 24:14 7 3/5   1/2 2 1 3 2 3     2 3 1 8
5 RAIVIO, DEREK 5:22 6 0/1 2/2             1     1   3
6 WASHINGTON, DARIUS 24:13 13 2/4 3/5   2 1 3 6 1 3   1   2 17
7 HRUBAN, VOJTECH 28:52 13 3/6 1/3 4/4 3 4 7   2 2 1   2 4 18
9 WELSCH, JIRI 29:50 6 3/7 0/1     3 3 5 2 1     2 1 9
10 HOUSKA, PAVEL 3:10 5 1/1 1/1   1   1           2   4
11 SIMMONS, TRE 31:43 14 4/8 2/4     2 2 2 4 1     2 1 14
15 BARTON, LUBOS 14:03   0/2 0/1     1 1   1     1     -2
23 BURNS, CHRISTIAN 25:57 16 6/12 1/3 1/1 1 5 6 1   1   1 3 3 13
31 KRIZ, MARTIN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
41 STUTZ, GARRETT 12:36 4 1/1   2/2 1 3 4 3         1 1 11
55 POMIKALEK, TOMAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team           2   2               2
Totals 200:00 84 23/47 10/20 8/9 12 20 32 19 13 9 1 5 16 13 97
        48.9% 50% 88.9%
Head coach: KEMZURA, KESTUTIS

Head Coaches

KARASEV, VASILY
Zenit St Petersburg
"Of course it’s always disappointing to lose. If speak about positive moments I would like to talk about finishing game with no injuries. That’s the most important thing at the moment. That’s why yesterday we had a restoration training session, because not all of our players are fit after all injuries and illnesses. This game was too hard for Zenit. Our players played at their limit, but only in the third quarter they could push forward. Now we have to win the game versus Strasburg."

Players

KULAGIN, DMITRY
Zenit St Petersburg
"Basketball is a team sport; that’s why when a team loses any player, performance will be completely different. But we are professionals and we mustn’t start the game as we did today. I think the problem was in the first quarter. We made many mistakes and we let our opponents to score some easy points and get too confident. You mustn’t start home games like this. And then we suffered a lack of energy as well."
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