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Photo: TASS – Scanpix
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Chimki from the Moscow region, coached by Rimas Kurtinaitis (2-3), suffered a dramatic failure in the VTB United League.
Despite the return of the team leaders, the Masquerade Club is at home 88:89 (22:18, 23:31, 15:24, 28:16) fell to Astana (1-2) of Kazakhstan, whose victory was started by the launch of Adonis Thomas.
“Our main problem this season is that we cannot close the game,” Kurtinaitis said after the match. – We can’t find the best solution to win. The situation was similar in the game with Panathinaikos in Athens, when we didn’t make a good shot in seven seconds. “
The American scored two points 15 seconds before the end of the game. In another attack, Alexei Swed lost, Thomas, who was stopped for a foul, could have ensured the victory of the Astana team, but the free throws flew by and Chimki had another chance: 88:89.
However, the last shot from Jonas Jerebkas did not reach the goal and the final siren announced the victory of the Kazakhs.
For the first time in club history, Astana’s team defeated Chimki’s team in the VTB United League match.
Chimki faced Alexei Švedas, who returned to the lineup after the match, and Jordan Mickey, Jan Timma and Yevgeny Voronov, who defeated the coronavirus and signed up for the match but did not appear.
“We knew it wouldn’t be easy, because we were finally joined by four basketball players who hadn’t played for a long time,” Kurtinaitis continued. – I tried three of them, but they had a hard time catching the rhythm. But the problem was not that we did not play well, but how we finished the game. “
The Swede scored 19 points (5/8 dvit., 2/11 trit., 3/7 penalties) in 31 minutes, made 12 assists and bounced 3 balls.
Timma played 24 minutes, scored 3 points (1/7 shots), 3 rebounds and 3 assists.
Mickey scored 6 points (2/3 doubles, 2/2 penalties) and 3 rebounds in 16 minutes.
Devin Booker’s impressive performance didn’t help Kurtinaitis’ team. The 29-year-old forward scored 30 points (14/17 doubles, 0/1 trit, 2/2 penalties) in 32 minutes, bounced 15 balls and scored 42 utility points.
For Astana, this was the first United League victory in three rounds.
On Friday Chimki will host a Euroleague home game with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Chimki: Devin Booker 30 (Rev. 15), Alexei Švedas 19 (Truth 2/11, 12th ed.), Vyacheslav Zaitsev 14.
Astana: Jeremiah Hill 22 (4/10 trit.), Ojars Šilins 17 (4/7 trit.), Adonis Thomas 16, Michael Thompson 11 (10 res., 5 rev.).
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