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In second overtime, the enraged Zenit of St. Petersburg tied the result of the VTB United League semi-final series with CSKA Moscow.
Triples released this season
| Hits: | 9.2 |
| Precision: | 37.5% |
| League place: | 9 |
| Best achievement: | sixteen |
| Worst achievement: | 4 |
| More common: | Kevin Pangos |
Xavi Pascual’s pupils after 50 minutes of fighting at home 107: 104 (15:18, 16:21, 20:20, 24:16, 12:12, 20:17) beat CSKA.
The result of the series up to 3 wins became 1-1.
However, in the first two games, Zenit lost home advantage. The other two matches will take place in Moscow and if CSKA wins them, the series will not return to St. Petersburg.
For the winners, Kevin Pangos scored 27 points in 41 minutes (7/12 doubles, 3/8 trit., 4/4 penalties), had 9 assists and scored 24 utility points.
Artūras Gudaitis was still without playing due to injury.
CSKA was not saved by Tornike’s impressive duo of Will Clyburn and Shengelia. The American scored 28 points (6/11 dvit., 3/10 trit., 7/7 penalties) and the cartel added 27 points (4/8 dvit., 4/5 trit., 7/8 penalties).
Zenit launched the second extension in a hurricane attack. Alex Poythress and Will Thomas connected two points, Billy Baron scored a triple, Kevin Pangos added a penalty and Zenit, who won 8-0 in the 69-second period, broke 95:87.
At the start of the second minute of the second overtime, Johannes Voigtmann scored two points and reduced CSKA’s gap to 3 points (99: 102) and Will Clyburn, who scored a two-point foul, to 2 points (102: 104).
However, Zenit stretched Pangos, who hit the colon 14 seconds ago and doubled the lead (106: 102).
At the end of the game, Billy Baron scored a penalty (107: 102) and Voigtmann’s points did not change the situation.
At the end of the third quarter, Zenit had a deficit of 12 points (45:57), but then Pascual’s army ran 14: 2 and the result was already even at the beginning of the last quarter (75:75).
At the end of the fourth quarter, Kevin Pangos scored five points in a row and put Zenit ahead at the start of the penultimate minute (72:70).
Tornikė Šengelija responded with appropriate penalties and tied the score (72:72), but Pangos hit another colon, Andrei Zubkov scored a penalty with 13 seconds remaining. Zenit led 75:72.
In the closing seconds of the fourth quarter, Shengelia scored the triple and tied the score, and after a clumsy triple by Billy Baron, the teams had to play overtime.
Zenit had a 4-point lead after playing half of the first overtime (82:78), but Darrun Hilliard and Will Clyburn each scored two penalties, Clyburn added two points and CSKA was already ahead (84:82) .
Poythress tied (46:84) with 46 seconds to go, and Baron followed suit after Clyburn’s 3-pointer, which ended in 15 seconds. hit all three fines (87:87).
In the first overtime, Clyburn scored 9 of 12 CSKA points.
The third game in the series will take place in Moscow on Saturday.
Zenit: Kevin Pangos 27 (7/12 double, 9 res.), Billy Baron 20 (4/10 trit.), Alex Poythress 15 (8th repetition), Tarik Black and Will Thomas.
CSKA: Will Clyburn 28 (6/11 double, 3/10 trit., 7/7 fines), Tornikė Šengelija 27 (4/5 trit., 7/8 fines), Daniel Hackett 17, Michael Eric 11, Darrun Hilliard 10 .
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