On 16 September, the deciding games of the Kondrashin and Belov Cup took place in St. Petersburg. Zenit, UNICS, Pari Nizhny Novgorod and MBA participated in the tournament.
In the semifinals, UNICS defeated Pari NN (84:75), while Zenit defeated MBA (81:66).
The VTB League champions of the last two seasons played in the decisive game and Zenit beat the Kazan team – 82:77. In the 3rd place game, Nizhny was stronger than the Moscow team (79:69).
Zenit won the Kondrashin and Belov Cup for the third time. The St. Petersburg team guard Kyle Kuric was named the MVP of the tournament.
Trent Frazier and Sergey Karasev were in the All-tournament first team. Daniil Kasatkin (MBA) , Andrey Vorontsevich (Pari NN) and Jalen Reynolds (UNICS) were also there.
Zenit head coach Xavier Pascual summarised the results of the tournament.
«Firstly, thanks to all the fans who came to support us. It is a great pleasure to return to this arena and play two games of the tournament. We really enjoyed this support and I hope the whole Zenit family enjoyed the game.
Two teams showed offensive and defensive game. The first five minutes we had a bad defense, a bad start, but after that we started to control the game and the score step by step. With ups and downs, yes, but in the end we were able to get a 10-point lead and win.
Playoffs level in the final? Both teams tried to take this game seriously, but the Playoffs are different. They did not have Eric Green and Marcos Knight, we did not have Heurtel. Both teams can look a little different. But tonight we saw two teams trying to play as well as they can for September 16», Pascual said.
