CSKA beat Nizhny Novgorod at home – 94:69 (24:22, 23:13, 20:18, 27:16).
Top scorers
CSKA: Joel Bolomboy (15), Darran Hilliard (14), Kyle Hines (12+5 rebounds), Semen Antonov (10+5 rebounds), Andrey Vorontsevich (10)
Nizhny Novgorod: Anton Astapkovich (16+6 rebounds), Pavel Antipov (13), Darral Willis (12+6 rebounds)
Story
After makes by Joel Bolomboy in the beginning, Nizhny took over the game and were leading almost all quarter long. Only in the end of the first ex-Nizhny Novgorod player Semen Antonov brought CSKA the lead back. First quarter was sticked to memory with one more thing: Nikita Kurbanov passed Milos Teodosic and now is in Top-5 VTB League total points leaders with 1686.
Second quarter was a turning point. In the beginning of it, it was equal game but then CSKA made a 12-0 run, and Nizhny had huge trouble at offensive end – they couldn’t have scored for more than 3 minutes.
The game was continued in this way after the half break – Anton Astapkovich cut the lead to -9 with his three, But “Hines-Hilliard” duo quickly turned it back to double digits. In the last quarter CSKA made one more run increasing the lead to +20-point lead and made the result obvious. CSKA continue to chase Khimki having 5-game winning streak.
Hero
Kyle Hines. Spending only 13 minutes on the court, CSKA center collected 12 points 5 rebounds and 3 assists – and what most important – with the help of Hilliard turned off Nizhny’s come back after the half-time break.
Stat
10 000 rebounds in VTB United League – CSKA is now the first VTB United League team to collect this amount of rebounds – the 10 000th is collected by Joel Bolomboy.
Next
CSKA: 2 December on the road vs UNICS
Nizhny Novgorod: 2 December at home vs Khimki
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