CSKA defeated Pari Nizhny Novgorod in Moscow — 107:63 (31:16, 26:16, 27:8, 23:23).
The best scorers
CSKA: Casper Ware (16), Nikola Milutinov (15 + 11 rebounds), Alexey Shved (12 + 5 rebounds + 5 assists), Dallas Moore (12)
Pari Nizhny Novgorod: Maksim Lichutin (14)
Game progress
CSKA won 9 out of 9 games (including over the Top-5 League teams) and faced Pari Nizhny Novgorod.
Already in the first quarter, CSKA made a significant lead. During the first 6 minutes, the Volga team could not score. At that time, Nikola Milutinov – Dejan Davidovac duo scored: with Casper Ware support, they made a 12:0 run, and then 17:2.
Such a discouraging start did not break Nizhny. Ivan Strebkov and Evgenii Baburin reduced the difference with three-pointers, and after Dragan Apic shot, the guests’ trailed by only 9 points. CSKA missed several shots and gave chances to Pari NN. But it changed. Several three-pointers and successful drives, combined with the guests missed shots, led CSKA to have a double-digit lead, and then began to build it up quickly. After Davidovac made shot made the difference to 20 points, and the teams ended the first half with the score 57:32.
The second half began with three-pointers by Alexey Shved and Casper Ware and after the game almost lost the interest. One question remained — whether CSKA would have fifth 100 points scored in 10 games and Samson Ruzhentsev with a stunting dunk helped the Army team to got a 100. CSKA continues to be undefeated and holds the lead in the standings.
Hero
Nikola Milutinov. CSKA center again became the leader of his team in efficiency (27 points) and got his fifth double-double of the season. The Serbian bigman needed only 22 minutes on the floor.
Numbers
107 points scored is the second CSKA result in the season. By the way, in this game, the army team completely repeated the score of the October game against MINSK (107:63).
What’s next
CSKA: road game against Astana on November 18
Pari Nizhny Novgorod: road game versus PARMA-PARI on November 18
