A week has passed since the start of the 2022/23 season, and all teams have played 2 games. For some, these games were the first in the League, someone set a personal beat and someone proved to be a classic guard. Here are the key numbers of this week:
6,253 fans came to the game of PARMA-PARI and Zenit in Perm. This is not a record for UDS Molot – in the 2019/20 season there were 6,536 spectators at the game against CSKA. Nevertheless, at the start of the 2022/23 season, this is the best in attendance.
Samara is in second place of the arena attendance, 4,692 fans were at its debut game against CSKA.
CSKA scored 107 points in the game against MINSK. The Army team was the first to score more than 100 points and set the best for the most points in one game this season.
PARMA-PARI let MINSK score 48 points. The Perm team also beat the Belarusian team, but they focused not on offense, but on defense. For the first time in the entire time of playing in the League, PARMA-PARI allowed opponents to score less than 50 points.
+47 – with this difference MBA won their 2 games. The Moscow team started its way in the League with two winss – over Loko (86:73) and Astana (103:69) – and demonstrated the best start among all newcomers in the history of the League. MBA also became only the fifth team to make its debut in the United League with 2 wins.
Jaylen Barford scored 29 points in the game versus Samara. Loko won – 79:70, and the American guard set a career high in Loko. No one scored more than Barford in one game in the first week of the season.
Jaylen Barford made 7 steals against Samara. Loko guard worked not only in offense, but also in defense. 7 steals is the second best in the League history.
Evgeniy Minchenko made 6 blocks in the game with Pari NN. For Avtodor center, this is the career high and for this he got 17 minutes on the floor. By the way, this is the second result in the League history, and only Bamba Fall from Kalev in December 2012 and Olaseni Laval from Astana in February 2014 had more – 7 blocks.
Dmitry Khvostov made 11 assists in the game with Avtodor. Pari NN guard did not score a single point. The same number Thomas Heurtel got against PARMA-PARI.
Malik Dime got 8 dunks in the first two PARMA-PARI games. The center moved to the Perm club in the status of the best blocking player of the Italian leauge, but at the start of the season he showed that he can not only guard, but also score.
40:42 – Evgeny Baburin’s playing time in the game with two overtimes against Enisey. Pari NN guard is the only one who has played more than 40 minutes this season.
30 players made their debut in the United League in the first week of the 2022/23 season. Jermaine Love got hte best one, scored 26 points and gave 7 assists in the game with Enisey.