XXIX Сhampionship of Kazakhstan among men's teams of National league
Astana
Astana
National league, Regular season
27.10.2020, 19:30 Tu
Arena: Velotrek «Saryarka» (Astana)
99:44
Main time
21:11 20:10 29:14 29:9
Game number: 3
Spectators: 0
Caspiy
Aktau

«Astana» consolidated success in two games with «Caspiy»

27.10.2020, 15:52    Просмотров: 216
Источник: Press service
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In the second match of the home series against “Caspian”, the capital “Astana” was again the clear favorite and was ready to win a second victory in the season of the National League. In this match, Emil Rajkovic involved the other imports as well. For both of them it was their debut in the National League — Michael Thompson and Devin Marble, and for Devin this game became the grand debut for Astana in all tournaments.

In this match our guests opened the score, but Astana quickly caught up with the rivals, and then pulled away thanks to the efforts of Dmitriy Gavrilov and Robert Pan. By the end of the first quarter, Rustam Murzagaliev brought the capital's team to double-digit advantage. In the starting segment Astana scored 21 points, but most importantly, allowed the opponents to score only 11 and therefore led by 10 points. The second quarter repeated the first one: Astana played confidently in defense and did not allow opponents to score points, while the capital team acted effectively in attack. Caspiy frankly could not hold back the players of our team and after less than five minutes of the second quarter Askar Maidekin brought the advantage of the yellow-turquoise squad to 20 points. Caspiy during the last five minutes of the first half tried to restore balance in the match, but Emil Rajkovic's players stopped all rival's attempts and won the first half of the game with a score of 41:21.



After a long break, Astana began to act even more efficiently. Our team was actively gaining points and increasing its advantage. Caspiy finally lost the thread of the game and had little to offer in the fight against our team. Three minutes before the end of the third game segment, with Anton Ponomarev's points the advantage reached thirty plus point advantage for our team. And in the remaining time Astana scored even more points, and after thirty minutes of playing time they led by 35 points. There was no intrigue in the match at all and no one doubted the victory of our team. Astana carried out the fourth quarter more successfully than the previous three, even though they were leading 35 points. Meanwhile, the fourth period was the most disastrous for our rivals. They were able to score only 9 points, against 29 in favor of our team. “Astana” stopped one step away from a hundred, but won a crushing victory with a score of 99:44.
 

Most productive:
  • «Astana» — Michael Thompson scored 12 points in this match and made 5 rebounds and 2 assists. Askar Maidekin became the most productive in our team — 16 points and 3 rebounds. Dmitriy Gavrilov has 11 points, 8 rebounds and 2 steals, while Robert Pan has 13 points.
  • «Caspiy» — Colin Doherty scored — 17 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, as well as Denis Orlenko — 10 points and 7 rebounds.

Consequences: Astana won both matches of the starting series and occupies the first line of the tournament table. For Caspiy the season so far consists of two defeats.

Next match: Astana will play the next match on November 1 in St. Petersburg in the VTB United League against the local Zenit.

Detailed information about the tournament, tournament tables, schedule and match results are published in the Tournaments section.

Information about the opponent

Established year: 2008 Team colors: white, dark blue
Country: Kazakhstan Arena: Халық Арена
City: Aktau Website: www.bccaspiy.kz

Description

«Caspiy” — is Kazakhstan professional men's basketball team from the city of Aktau.

Basketball club «Caspian» was created in April 2008 by the Office of Physical Culture and Sports Mangistau region and Akimat of Mangistau region.

Achievements:
  • Bronze medalist of Kazakhstan Championship: 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2016/2017
  • Bronze medallist of the Cup of Kazakhstan: 2012, 2013, 2017

Overall team photo

Caspiy