In Kazakhstan "Khimki" has arrived in the truncated structure. Due to injuries in the suburbs remained from 6 players rotation, Shved, Robinson, Gill, Honeycutt Zubkov and falcons. As a result, only 10 basketball players, including reservists from the youth squad Yakushin and Klyuev, remained at the disposal of Georgios Bartzokas for this match. 

Owners didn't fail to take advantage of personnel problems of the contender. The teams exchanged productive attacks in the debut of the match, and then came the time of "Astana". The owners, led by Leonidas Kecelakaan (15 points in the first half), were dominated on the court and by the seventh minute led with the advantage of 18 points and 20:2. 

Save Khimki had Slavic five: Pateev – mony – Vyaltsev – birds – Markovic. They switched to the protection on the tactics of "exchanges", and the attack began to convert our chances. At the junction of the first and second quarters of the team near Moscow was a 10-point breakthrough, which soon supported Egor Vyaltsev two hits from a medium distance. By the big break the leadership of Astana decreased more than twice – 46:38. 

And here is the third 10-minute again has passed under dictation hosts. Kazakhs began with a 6-point spurt, and in the middle of the quarter and did accelerate – 11:0. These two breakthrough finally approved the "Astana" in the role of undisputed leader – 63:42. 

Key point: 

The drama of this meeting would be incomplete without one more comeback Khimki players. And the suburban basketball players did not disappoint. In the final 10 minutes, they started to fall from behind the arc, in addition, intensified and American Legion teams. Through the efforts of Vyaltsev (three "triads"), as well as Jenkins and Thomas (11 points for two) guests at the last minute approached the distance of one throw – 79:76. But at this point, the players of "Astana" did not allow themselves liberties. First, Larry Gordon skillfully leaked to someone else's ring and scored with a foul, and then Malcolm Grant implemented tactical penalties, setting the final score on the scoreboard – 84:79. 

The most productive: 

"Astana": Malcolm Grant (16), IR Udana (16 + 6 rebounds), Leonidas Katelaris (15 + 3 steals), Anthony Clemmons (14 + 7 rebounds + 5 assists), Larry Gordon (10 + 5 rebounds + 3 steals). 
Khimki: Egor Vyaltsev (17), Malcolm Thomas (15 + 9 rebounds), Charles Jenkins (14 + 6 assists), Vyacheslav Zaitsev (14 + 5 rebounds). 

Source: pbcastana.kz