Zenit defeated Avtodor on the road – 89:64 (28:17, 18:15, 22:15, 21:17).
Game progress
The hosts managed to impose a fight to Zenit at the start. In the middle of the first quarter, Bojan Dubljevic, Trent Frazier and Sergey Karasev made a 14-0 run. Avtodor managed to cut difference to 5 points in the second quarter, but Andrey Zubkov and Kyle Kuric restored Zenit double-digit lead. By the big break, Javier Pascual’s team led by a comfortable 46-32 margin.
Key moment
The game didn’t change radically in the second half. Avtodor managed to stay 10-11 points away, but Zubkov and Dubjlevic made bunch of three-pointers and Avtodor lost any chance to comeback. Zenit gets the biggest win of the season by 25 points, the game against PARMA ended with a 24-point difference.
X-factor
Bojan Dubljevic. Zenit fans were probably expecting another performance from Vince Hunter, who has consistently scored 19-20 points in the last 3 games. But this time the American bigman wasn’t shine in offense, but Dubljevic became the best scoring player of the game. Andrey Zubkov shoulkd be mentioned, he had his best game in the regular season.
Fact
89 points is Zenit season-high, and the 25 points are the team’s biggest difference.
Leaders
Avtodor: Dmitriy Khaldeev (15), Vasilije Pusica (13 + 5 assists), Raishon Hammonds (12), Dominik Mavra (11 + 8 rebounds).
Zenit: Bojan Dublevic (16 + 7 rebounds), Kyle Kuric (15), Andrey Zubkov (14 + 5 rebounds), Sergey Karasev (14), Trent Frazier (13 + 6 rebounds).
What’s next
Avtodor (3-7): November 19 on the road versus Lokomotiv Kuban
Zenit (6-4): November 18 on the road against MINSK.
