Russia (bbabo.net), - In the men's Basketball Superleague, NBA champion center Timofey Mozgov's effective game helped to maintain the sole leadership of the capital's Runa. In the Moscow derby with CSKA-2, this team won with a minimal margin - 85:84, Mozgov brought the winners 14 points.
The regular season of the first division of the Superleague enters the decisive stage. The teams played from 19 to 22 out of 28 matches. Leadership continues to be held by the capital's Runa, for which since 2022 the champion of the NBA-2016 in the Cleveland, the bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics Timofey Mozgov has been playing.
"Runa" in the last round could lose the honorary status of the sole leader of the competition with the participation of 15 teams, but retained exclusively the top line in the table, defeating the second team of CSKA at the Dynamo Sports Palace on Lavochkin Street - 85:84. Mozgov scored 14 points in this game and became the second highest scorer in his team, only Ilya Popov scored more - 15. Moreover, 35-year-old Timofey converted all five field goals and 4 out of 5 free throws, adding 7 rebounds to these figures.
And yet, Yuri Umrikhin from CSKA-2 should be called the most valuable basketball player of the most interesting match. By the way, he has already been called up to the Russian national team. In the meeting with "Runa" he brought "red-blue" 25 points, and his coefficient of utility, which the Russian Basketball Federation (RFB) calculates according to a special formula, turned out to be the highest among all the participants in the battle on the parquet floor built back for the 1980 Olympics "Lavka" , as it is customary to call this sports facility in fan slang.
It is interesting that CSKA-2, on the eve of the game with Runa, scored eight victories in nine matches held before. It is worth paying attention to the results of Yekaterinburg "Uralmash" - seven (!) wins in a row. Moreover, this series began immediately after the New Year, just from the moment the ex-coach of the Russian national team Yevgeny Pashutin, who began the season at the United League and Eurocup club Lokomotiv Kuban (Krasnodar), came to the coaching bridge. Most of all, in this long winning streak of Pashutin, the stability of the overall performance of the Urals is striking - in six games they scored from 96 to 100 points, and only the match with Ufimets (86:71) fell a little out of this amazing series.
This coming Friday in Revda, the first game of the two-legged confrontation of the Russian Cup final will take place, for which the representatives of Superleague 1 "Temp-SUMZ-Revda" (this is the current owner of the trophy) and BC "Samara", which is the owner of the champion title of this division of the national championship, will compete.
Position of teams in Superleague 1
1. Runa (Moscow) - 19 wins - 2 losses (win percentage 90.5);2. Uralmash (Yekaterinburg) - 18-3 (85.7%);
3. "Temp-SUMZ-UMMC" (Revda) - 17-4 (81.0%);
4. BC "Samara" - 11-8 (57.9%);
5. "University-Yugra" (Surgut) - 11-8 (57.9%);
6. CSKA-2 (Moscow) - 12-9 (57.1%);
7. BC Novosibirsk - 11-9 (55.0%);
8. "Irkut" (Irkutsk) - 10-10 (50.0%);
9. BC "Barnaul" (Altai Territory) - 9-11 (45.0%);
10. MBA (Moscow) - 9-12 (42.9%);
11. Dynamo (Vladivostok) - 8-14 (36.4%);
12. Dome-Springs (Izhevsk) - 6-15 (28.6%);
13. "Ufimets" (Ufa) - 6-16 (27.3%);
14. BC "Khimki" (Moscow region) - 5-15 (20.0%);
15. TsOP-Lokomotiv-Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) - 3-19 (13.6%).
Note: Ranked by the percentage of wins from the total number of matches played. According to the results of the regular season, the eight strongest teams will advance to the playoffs.
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