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Mindaugas Kuzminskas, who played fantastic, repeated and improved season and career records.
The 31-year-old forward drove Chimki’s players to despair, scoring as many as 24 points in 37 minutes (7/9 doubles, 2/3 triplets, 4/4 penalty).
With such success this season Kuzia played only once, when in December he also scored 24 points in Parma’s basket in Perm.
True, in the match against Chimki, M. Kuzminskas stood out not only in the points won. He caught 8 more balls, made 4 assists, got hold of 2 balls, made a mistake once and caused 8 fouls by his opponents.
According to the official statistics protocol, the Loko forward scored up to 34 utility points, but in the VTB United League, this indicator does not include provoked fouls. Adding them up, Kuzia’s utility would reach a staggering 42 points, which would be a new career record; so far, M. Kuzminskas accumulated the most useful points, 36, still representing Šiauliai in 2009.
Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min / Mindaugas Kuzminskas
Mantas Kalnietis also achieved an impressive statistical indicator.
Although the captain of the Lithuanian team scored only 5 points (0/5 doubles, 1/2 trit., 2/2 penalty), he made up to 15 assists and registered the second best indicator of his career.
Mantas only distributed more transfers in 2020 in the October game against Zeliona Gura’s “Stelmet”, when the team unpacked up to 17 “candies” for their friends.
In addition to the stack passes, M. Kalnietis bounced 2 more balls, made two errors, committed three times, and scored 14 utility points in 32 minutes.
M. Kalnietis collected all his points at the decisive moment. The Lithuanian “opened” 1 minute ago. and 40 sec. taking penalty kicks, and there are 13 seconds left. he managed a three-point lead, but in the next attack, 7 seconds from the end of the game, Sergejus Monia equalized and tied.
The Lokomotiv victory went to starter Nigel Williams-Goss. American in 0.5 sec. He shot a shot from a three-point line, and Alexei Swede’s last attempt failed and the Krasnodar guests triumphed.
The Pamaskve teams did not save the tandems of A.Švedas and Jordan Mickey, who played successfully.
The Russian scored 27 points (4/7 doubles, 4/12 trit., 7/7 penalty) and made 10 assists, while the American scored 20 points (6/16 doubles, 2/3 trit., 2/2 baud.).
Loko VTB ranks fourth in the United League and is behind Zenit Saint Petersburg, CSKA Moscow and UNICS clubs Kazan. Chimki is only in eighth position.
“Chimki”: Aleksejus Švedas 27 (4/12 trit., 10 res., 25 us.), Jordan Mickey 20 (6/16 trit.), Sergejus Monia 12 (4/6 trit.), Janis Timma 10.
Lokomotiv: Mindaugas Kuzminskas 24 (7/9 doubles, 8 rebounds, $ 34), Kevin Hervey 21 ($ 8, $ 25), Drew Gordonas 12 ($ 9), Will Cummings and Nigel Williams-Goss after 11.
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