Perm and Astana will host 2 regular season games on Saturday.
Astana (Astana) – Enisey (Krasnoyarsk)
Time: 15:00 (12:00 Moscow time)
Place: Kazakhstan, Astana, Saryarka
Broadcast: TV Start, League website
Astana: The Kazakh team cannot find the game in any way and demonstrate stability throughout the entire game. Oleg Kiselev team manage to have good segments, but this is not enough to get the win even in rivalries for a place in the playoffs. There is a chance to change this against Enisey, Astana shares the 10th place in the standings with the Krasnoyarsk team. Yes, the team is worse in rebounding and stealing, but at the same time got good shots percentage. This is especially in three-pointers: Astana scores 36.6% of three-pointers, while Enisey scores only 27.5%.
Enisey: The Krasnoyarsk team could have been in the Top-5, but they missed wins in 3 games already – in overtimes with Pari NN and Samara, as against PARMA-PARI. Drazen Anzulovic team has only one win and a trip to Astana is a chance to improve. Compared to Astana, Enisey looks like a stronger team, which has much more offensive options. It will be interesting to follow Michael Myers and James Thompson rival: both of them like and know how to score points in the paint and fight for rebounds.
PARMA-PARI (Perm) – CSKA (Moscow)
Time: 17:30 (15:30 Moscow time)
Place: Russia, Perm, UDS Molot
Broadcast: TV Start, Match! Igra, League website
PARMA-PARI: The Perm team are on a good move – in the last 2 weeks they won 3 consecutive games and rose to 5th place in the standings. In the game in Krasnoyarsk, Bryon Allen had great performance: the guard literally saved PARMA-PARI from loss by making two shots in the end. But CSKA is completely different level opponent and PARMA need to be ready for the difficult game. It will be interesting to see how the PARMA-PARI frontcourt will stop Nikola Milutinov. CSKA center shows good basketball at the start of the season and the MVP of October is a true confirmation. Evgeniy Pashutin team is loosing to the Army team in many stats, but it has one advantage – the fans. On Saturday, it will be noisy in Molot – 2 days before the game it was sold-out!
CSKA: The Army team is undefeated this season – 7 wins in 7 games with 25.3 points difference on average. CSKA looks powerful on both sides of the court and goes to Perm as a clear favorite. The main attention to Shved-Milutinov duo, but the Moscow team is also dangerous from the three-point line – 6 players got 40% from deep! Also, CSKA has never lost to PARMA-PARI in Perm – and certainly does not plan to do it on Saturday.
Game of the Week. PARMA-PARI vs CSKA
