Samara beat PARMA-PARI at home — 80:63 (15:20, 22:19, 26:16, 17:8).
The best scorers
Samara: Marcos Knight (22+6 rebounds+6 assists), KC Rivers (18+6 steals), Malcolm Thomas (14+10 rebounds), James Ennis (13+5 rebounds)
PARMA-PARI: Bryon Allen (18), Joel James (14+10 rebounds), Justin Roberson (10).
Game process
Both teams had the same wins and losses balance (4-4). But Samara wan a favourite. Aleksandr Platunov, Gleb Sheiko, Justin Roberson and Pavel Antipov made shots helped PARMA to take the lead at the.beginning of the game – 10:2. But Samara quickly came back with the help of American players. KC Rivers and Marcos Knight led the team and scored 25 points in the first half of the game. Knight shot helped the hosts to draw the score – 33:33. And with such tense game, the Perm team had the lead. Danila Pokhodiaev helped PARMA to end the first half as a leader – 39:37.
But in the third quarter, the Volga team took the lead. And for this time, the key players were Malcolm Thomas and James Ennis, who scored 16 points combined and provide Samara to have a lead before the fourth quarter – 63:55.
The fourth quarter started with Justin Roberson three-pointer. But hopes for the guests comeback were small. In the next 7.5 minutes PARMA just cannot score. But Samara did not have problems with that and slowly gain the lead, the difference became double-digit. The guests lead was 20 points when the Perm team scored the second shot in the quarter – 80:60. There was no doubt that Samara won the game.
Hero
Marcos Knight scored 22 points and became the best scoring player of the game. Samara guard also has 6 rebounds and 6 assists.
Numbers
7 – Samara did not let PARMA score for 7 minutes This segment became the deceive one.
What’s next
Samara: road game against Avtodor
PARMA-PARI: road game versus UNICS.
