VTB United League. BC Khimki vs. Astana19 november 2011
BC Khimki scored another vivid victory over one of the most unknown to the Russian fan team BC Astana Kazakstan — 85-66 (22-14, 19-19, 22-22, 22-11) and strengthened its VTB United League group B position. The next game our team will play within the bounds of Eurocup on Tuesday, November 22 with VEF-Riga Latvia. The beginning of the meeting is at 19.00 msk.
Best scorers: Fridzon (14 + 6 rebounds), Quinn (14 + 6 rebounds + 4 assists), Monya (13), Mozgov (9 + 8 rebounds), Loncar (9).
Rimas Kurtinaitis, BC Khimki head coach:
— As we expected, BC Astana turned to be a tough team, in spite of its youth. Our opponent played well, I would like to praise the guys for the shown character and the desire. As for Khimki, we started not very vigorously, but inertly. The sutuation changed in the second half — we picked up speed and won.
Matteo Boniciolli, BC Astana head coach:
– First of all, I congratulate BC Khimki on this brilliant victory. We played with one of the best European teams. Our opponent has shown perfect basketball with good rotation, Rimas Kurtinaitis involved into the game all the players. As for our team, today we missed our injured leaders — Rawle Marshall and Igor Milosevic. They are key players like Mozgov and Quinn for Khimki. So a short bench let us down.
Rimas Kurtinaitis, BC Khimki head coach:
— As we expected, BC Astana turned to be a tough team, in spite of its youth. Our opponent played well, I would like to praise the guys for the shown character and the desire. As for Khimki, we started not very vigorously, but inertly. The sutuation changed in the second half — we picked up speed and won.
Matteo Boniciolli, BC Astana head coach:
– First of all, I congratulate BC Khimki on this brilliant victory. We played with one of the best European teams. Our opponent has shown perfect basketball with good rotation, Rimas Kurtinaitis involved into the game all the players. As for our team, today we missed our injured leaders — Rawle Marshall and Igor Milosevic. They are key players like Mozgov and Quinn for Khimki. So a short bench let us down.
Last games
VTB United LeagueBC Khimki vs. Lokomotiv-Kuban — 85-92VTB United League
Lokomotiv-Kuban vs. BC Khimki — 89-80VTB United League
BC Khimki vs. Avtodor — 80-84VTB United League
Tsmoki-Minsk vs. BC Khimki — 65-81VTB United League
Kalev vs. BC Khimki — 91-84VTB United League
BC Khimki vs. Nizhny Novgorod — 64-69VTB United League
BC Khimki vs. Enisey — 89-83EuroLeague
Olympiacos vs. BC Khimki — 82-75EuroLeague
Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. BC Khimki — 92-62
