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Basketball March 25, 2016, Friday. 02:30
Capital CSKA lost at a party, “Bamberg” and a week set aside the question of home-court advantage in the quarterfinals of the Euroleague.
Bamberg: .
CSKA Moscow: .
Percentage of realization: the game (0/0) from behind the arc (0/0), with the penalty (0/0).
March 24, 2016, Thursday. 22:45 MSK. Bamberg (Germany). Brose Arena. 5700 spectators.
defeat of “Barcelona” in Vitoria on Wednesday handed down in a duel of the 12th round of Euroleague Top 16 actually opened squad Dimitrios Itoudis the road to one of the first two places in the “group of death”. In order for two weeks before the end of the elite round to provide themselves with home-court advantage in the playoffs, it was enough to prevail in “the German Rome”. The very Bavarian town, which this season have left empty-handed 8 out of 10 contenders “Bamberg”. Who were the lucky ones who managed to get-away? “Real” and the … CSKA! And if the current club champion of the Old World actually snatched victory in the final minute, the Muscovites did it with a reserve, not to bring the case before becoming a hassle.
With the red and blue of the owners do not ever evolved. And that’s putting it mildly. Of the 11-person meetings, starting with the “regular season” -2005/06, they lost everything … 11. No matter how many experts or screaming that team Andrea Trinkeri is ripe for great achievements and incredibly dangerous because that crept close to the play-off zone, afraid it is not worth it, even with the fourth-bye for the last 148 days. In fact, the task of the coaching staff of Russians was simple: to deny the possibility of snipers opponent freely watered distance (those under the arches “Brose Arena” did more than well, sending the target in 10.2 “bomb” for the evening at 45.1% of sales) do not allow Nicolo Melli to feel at ease in a positional attack (read, play the role of point-forward) and guard rushing through the “back door».
Alas, get Ladder least guests are not able to on one of the three core subjects. They play in the defense of the course of 40 minutes, it was difficult to call not that good, but even satisfactory. This is explained by several factors. Firstly, the “Army men” did not torment yourself too hard combinations in the opponent’s half, often lying down in 10-12 seconds, because of what became hostages of their own pace and do not always have time to take their positions. Sensibly reasoning that counterpart defended absurdly even on the feet, not to mention the fact that the hopelessly “float” after a series of barriers, or “couplers”, the leaders of the red-blue began to save power on the end of the meeting from the first minute, however, that not knowing dug himself into a hole, losing control over what’s happening.
Secondly, in the middle of the first quarter of the absurd injured on level ground I was Joel Freeland . Rushing with his hands raised to plug a hole in the “penny” with his hands up the Briton pulled shoulder, caught not only the grid, but also for the handle of the ring, so that Itoudis was forced to take risks and throw into the fight less experienced Paul Korobkova and Ivan Lazarev , so as not to drive the Kyle Hines . Third, mediocre CSKA took care of the “gray cardinal”, “Bamberg» Nikos Zisis , each time in the right place in the right moment in situations where partners sank into the opponent’s half in defensive redoubts opponent. Grek sent to Goal 5 of the first 6 shots from the game, including 3 of 3 from beyond the arc, handed out 6 assists and did not commit any loss of running back nearly 33 minutes.
Fourth generally do not fall into the game, “wings” in the face of Vitaly Fridzon and Cory Higgins . Moreover, the couple threw a total of 5 in the milk of its long-range attempts, so also indirectly defended one to one, so terrible earned “-22″ according to the terms of “plus / minus”. Finally, the hosts did not hesitate to play hard, and sometimes even dirty, what they called a raised voice instructor at the first timeout. Despite the fact that the judges were trying to influence the Germans, writing them unsportsmanlike fouls (and in the second ten-minute and does consistently awarded the “techies” for arguing Leon Radosevic and Trinkeri), they continued to bend the line, adjusting to the limits roughness, thereby aggravated the atmosphere on the floor
it is likely that even with all this, Muscovites were able to solve their problems, but here’s the problem:. their attack looked like “a symbiosis of” arrogance and sloppiness with blurred transition edge from one state to another. Before the big break Nando de Colo and the company did not find anything better than to attack from the perimeter as soon as possible, with often no resistance. No joke, for 20 minutes, they made only 9 shots with medium or close range against the 16 long-range attempts and 21 free-kick. It seemed that as soon as the imbalance persists, everything will fall into place. And when, in the third quarter, “CSKA” eliminated “-8″ to find the fire in the hands of the Andrew Vorontsevich (striker sent the objective 5 of 8 three-point), and Bradley Uonameyker was hanging on four fouls, got the impression that the trick is done.
But it was not there. Time passed, and the “Bamberg” refused to throw the white flag. Moreover, seeing the pain points position CSKA attack, I began to put pressure on them. Hoisted on fouls Nikita Kurbanov and Andrew Vorontsevich and displacing Kyle Hines from the “paint”, the Germans completely took control of its own shield and causing De Colo and Teodosicha to cut circles in search of free zones and to seek his fortune in the aisles with fierce resistance, virtually doomed duo of errors in the “clutches”. The Serb and the Frenchman eventually greased 19 of 30 shots from the game during the evening, including 5 of 6 – in the final 176 seconds, and thereby complicate the life of the team in the remaining two rounds. Now a victory over «Zalgiris» in Moscow in the fight for first place in the group may not be enough.
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