On January 26 and 27, the «Astana» basketball club will play a return home series of games within the National League against «Barsy Atyrau.» The first match starts at 19:30, and the second match will start at 17:00 Nur-Sultan time.
! ATTENTION — We ask all fans to carefully read the rules before attending home matches.
«Barsy Atyrau» is a Kazakhstani professional men's basketball club from the city of Atyrau, established in 2003.
Achievements:
- Kazakhstan Championship Winner: 2010/2011, 2015/2016
- Silver medalist of the Championship of Kazakhstan: 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2016/2017
- Major League Winner: 2014/2015
- Kazakhstan Cup Winner: 2009
- Silver medalist V-Bet of the Eurasian Basketball League: 2019/2020
- Silver medalist of the Cup of Kazakhstan: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Bronze medalist of the Cup of Kazakhstan: 2020
The upcoming series will be the second match of our team with «Barsy» this season in the National League. For the first time, the players of Darko Russo faced the green-and-white squad at the start of the season — exactly 4 months ago in Atyrau. Then capital basketball players won two victories. After that, the Atyrau team played another 12 games, losing only once. They confidently outplayed “Kaspiy” four times, seized four not the easiest victories in matches against “Tobol” from Kostanay, in four matches against “Aktobe” they managed to pull out three victories, having missed one game. Thus, the Atyrau team confidently takes the second line of the standings, noticeably ahead of the closest pursuers by seven wins, but they also lose quite a lot to the first place — «Astana» with three wins. We would like to remind you that today our team has a 100% result, having won 14 matches out of 14 held.
Changes in the roster: Since then, «Barsy Atyrau» added two new players. In October, the Belarusian guard Andrei Rogozenko, who previously defended the colors of the Belarusian team «Tsmoki Minsk», joined the Atyrau team. Another newcomer of our opponents was the American guard Donte Lamont McGill. Donte is not quite a newcomer to the Atyrau team, he already played for «Barsy» at the end of 2019/2020 and the beginning of 2020/2021 seasons. Also during his career, he managed to play in the NBA Development League as part of the Delaware 87, as well as in the Polish championship in the «BM Slam Steel» team. In addition, the coaching staff engaged the players from the farm team a couple of times.
Opponent Leaders: Donte Lamont McGill has only played four games for «Barsy» so far, but he has performed well so far. Another American, Jordan Watson, is also the clear leader of the team. Kazakhstani Vladimir Ivanov and Belarusians Andrei Rogozenko and Denis Vikentiev have excellent performances. In addition, it is worth noting Rustam Utegen and Roman Marchuk.
The matches will take place in the capital, at the arena of the Saryarka cycle track. The first game will start on Wednesday at 19:30, and the second meeting on Thursday will begin at 17:00 Nur-Sultan time. Online broadcast of the games will be available on the main page of our website.
Detailed information about the tournament, tournament tables, schedule, and results of matches are published in the
Tournaments section.
