Photo: BC «Spartak — Primorye»
April 7 in St. Petersburg «Spartak-Primorye» in the championship of Russia PBL will hold an away game with the local «Spartacus.» Kick-off at 17:00 Moscow time (00:00 administered).
St. Petersburg\’s «Spartacus» very confident the new season. The first group stage of the second most important evroturnira St. Petersburg passed without misfires. In the Top 16 of «Spartacus» was in the same group with the Krasnodar «locomotive» and at the end of the second round went to the playoffs in the second place, behind «railroad.» But, despite winning the first leg of the quarterfinal series by 11 points over the Ukrainian «Budevelnikom» wards Jure Zdovtsa lost in Kiev «-17», completing the performance in the European Cup. And remember Petrograders and the painful loss «Budevelniku» in the final home preseason Kondrashin and Belov Cup with a difference of one point (75:76).
In the championship of Russia PBL at the moment «Spartacus» took 3rd place (8 wins, 7 losses). Before the end of the championship team will hold another Zdovtsa 3 matches: at home with «Spartak-Primorye» and «Yenisei», away from the «locomotive». In the first round of the St. Petersburg\’s «Spartacus» won a landslide victory in Vladivostok on our team with a score of 60:77. The most productive player in the «Spartak-Primorye» in that match was Gillenvote Troy with 19 points, the guests — Patrick Beverley — 14. However, in late December, the most productive player of our rival moved overseas, the club NBA «Houston Rockets.» In the last match of the PBL, which took place on April 1 on the floor of the native «Jubilee», «Spartacus» lost Lyuberetskaya «triumph» — 82:85.
In the final match of the regular season of VTB United League team lost to the banks of the Neva «Donetsk», and has scored only four in Group A, with the result that Spartacus will have home-court advantage only in the first stage of the playoffs, in the quarterfinals of the «Nizhny Novgorod».
Last season, the first half of the championship as promised brighter future our «mates». Experts recorded «Spartacus» among the winners of the competitions in which the team participated. However, by the end of the season in the asset «red-white» were only modest bronze medals of the Russian Cup. This season of «Spartacus» also made it to the «Final Four» of the National Cup, and on April 16 in Vladivostok will compete for the finals of the Krasnoyarsk «Yenisei».