Basketball Krasnodar club “Lokomotiv-Kuban” to four games extended the winning streak in the group stage of the Euroleague, beating Friday on its floor the champion of Turkey “Karsiyaka».
By the fourth round of the main European Cup basketball “Locomotive” went one of the three clubs who did not know defeat. CSKA Moscow earlier also won its fourth meeting, and the Spanish “Unicaja” serving in the same group with CSKA, the fourth match of the tournament will finish on Friday later.
«Karsiyaka” began the tournament with a home victory over the “Barcelona”, but then lost in two games, “Panathinaikos” and “Zalgiris”. In the Turkish team Ufyuka Sharitsy defeats do not know, winning four games of the season.
Prior to the meeting on his floor “railroad” had a heavy exit a series of five matches, which caused concern coach George Bartsokasa on the eve of the match with the physically powerful rivals.
«We have a very difficult group, and every game we have to carry all of 40 minutes, – quoted him as saying the press service of the Krasnodar team. – Players’ Karsiyaka “strong and athletic, they are in the lead in the championship in Turkey, and we are well aware that against this team will not be easy.”
It is difficult to Russian team became the first minutes of the meeting, when something incredible began to work on-site leader of the “Karsiyaka” Joe Regland. He managed to score and after a solo passage, and long-range throws.
The first quarter of Izmir club won with a score of 21:17, five times hitting the mark from behind the arc.
The second segment of the meeting, and all the guests began to jerk 9: 0. There is already took the floor Colton Iverson scored seven of those points. The advantage of “Karsiyaka” was 13 points when “Loco” began to answer: Alex Zozulin hit “three rubles,” and then Sergey Bykov developed chase, forcing the coach offers to take a timeout.
Before the break four points scored by Malcolm Delaney , allowing the owners to retire with a decent enough lag – «-5»: 30:35.
«During the break I said that it was time to settle down, start with the protection and return to the game, – after the match said mentor “Loko” Bartsokas. – And the second part, we had a very effective game. “Karsiyaka” acted badly, but it’s because of us. ”
the equalizer to make, and the hosts took the lead at the end of four minutes of the third quarter. The decisive moment in the game was the interception actively otzaschischatsya Victor Claver, who he also completed a spectacular dunk.
At the beginning of the final segment of the meeting site owners already reached double-digit advantage in the lead (52:42) won the third with a difference “15″!
The struggle in the fourth part of the fight did not work: the demoralized “Karsiyaka” continued to lag behind, and the “Locomotive” played out Zubkov, Draper and Singleton. The advantage of income and 20 points, and was the final score 72:53.
«We had two different halves, – said at the post-match press conference Sharitsa. – In the first part we played smart, and sometimes even perfect in defense, but in the second everything changed. We missed too many free throws, made stupid losses, and “Locomotive” scored a lot of easy points. We just lost control of the game. ”
The defender Evgeny Voronov, who along with Delaney in the hosts scored 15 points He said that it was “a very good win, great.” “We started not as good as would have committed an error in the defense did not play as we should have been – he said. – And after the break, it was the “Locomotive”, which should always be. ”
Bartsokas began by thanking the team that won again, and found a place for criticism. “It’s hard to believe, but after four games we go without loss and the first in the group – said the coach of” Locomotive “. – As for this match, we can say that the game was very strange and it can not be called quality. We started very poorly, as though we did not have on the site. ”
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