CSKA beat Astana in the regular season game on the road – 101:64 (23:15, 33:20, 25:18, 20:11).
The best scorers
Astana: Markell Johnson (18 + 6 assists), Michael Myers (15 + 11 rebounds), Valeriy Likhodey (11), Kwame Vaughn (10)
CSKA: Nikola Milutinov (15 + 10 rebounds), Dejan Davidovac (14 + 5 rebounds), Alexey Shved (13 + 7 assists), Anton Astapkovich (13), Ivan Ukhov (12), Nikita Kurbanov (8 + 7 rebounds + 3 steals).
Game progress
Astana started with 1 win and 7 losses and got the 11th place. Before the game with CSKA, the team signed Markell Johnson and Kwame Vaughn. The Army team confidently had 10 wins.
CSKA took the lead with Dallas Moore, Alexey Shved and Nikola Milutinov actions. Astana did not let the Moscow team to make a huge difference and Michael Myers helped the Kazakh team with that (11 points and 10 assists in the first half).
If in the first quarter the Army team led by 8 points, then in the second the guests lead became bigger. Shved and Milutinov duo had the great segment, but the bench was also good (22 points by the halftime). Offensively, the Army team generally was good: 72% of two-pointers, 45.5% of three-pointers, 15 assists (7 from Astana). CSKA had 21 points lead at the end of two quarters – 56:35.
In the remaining time, CSKA controlled the game and brought it to the win, which became the 11th in a row. The Moscow team remains the only undefeated team in the League.
Hero
Nikola Milutinov. The center became the most effective in CSKA and 21 minutes on the court were enough for him. The Serbian bigman scored 15 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 28 eff. points with 6 out of 9 from the game.
Numbers
11 – the Army team has the 2nd best start in the League in its history.
In the 2018/19 season, CSKA had 13 wins in a row after the season start.
What’s next
Astana: road game versus Nizhny Novgorod on November 23 .
CSKA: home game against Avtodor on November 23 .
