MBA-MAI defeated Samara at home – 95:87 (27:13, 26:28, 21:30, 21:16).
Game progress
Despite losing its last 3 games, MBA-MAI was still in the Top 5. Samara had not won on the road in the VTB League since November last year and was the only team without a win (0-7). The first quarter went according to plan: the hosts demonstrated variety and depth in offense, quickly establishing a comfortable lead (27:13). After that, the Moscow team allowed the opponent to get into the game. Dmitry Cheburkin helped Samara to cut the deficit to 8 points before the halftime. In the third quarter, the Volga team was even stronger. Samara continued to score three-pointers and took the lead. Vasily Karasev called a timeout and asked his team to pick up the pace and “start playing”. His motivational speech worked and MBA-MAI pulled ahead again, but couldn’t avoid a clutch.
Key moment
At the decisive moment, the hero of the evening Vladislav Trushkin scored another three-pointer. After that, MBA-MAI managed to stop Samara several times in defense (in one episode, Trushkin knocked the ball out of Nikita Mikhailovskii hands) and used the momentum with a three-pointer by Maksim Barashkov and Viacheslav Zaitsev lay-up (91:82). The Volga team failed to make another comeback.
X-factor
Vladislav Trushkin scored 24 points and 8 rebounds with 8 of 12 three-pointers made. 8 three-pointers – a repeat of the forward’s career-high and season-high.
Facts
The rivalry history score is 7-6, MBA-MA took lead as won the last 4 games.
In the last 5 games, Samara has only allowed to score less than 100 points once, which was in a home game against MBA-MAI. Today, the Volga team again held MBA-MAI within 100 points.
Andrey Zubkov scored 2,500 points in his career, while Vladislav Trushkin surpassed 2,000 points.
MBA-MAI has the season-high 7 blocks. Samara was only one behind, with a total of 13, which is season-high.
Leaders
MBA-MAI: Vladislav Trushkin (24 + 8 rebounds), Andrey Zubkov (14 + 5 rebounds), Maksim Barashkov (14), Viacheslav Zaitsev (12 + 6 rebounds + 7 assists)
Samara: Nikita Mikhailovskii (29 + 9 rebounds), Dmitry Cheburkin (23 + 6 rebounds), Evgeny Minchenko (18 + 12 rebounds)
What’s next
MBA-MAI: November 2 on the road against Avtodor
Samara: November 4 on the road versus Uralmash.
