Basketball players of Krasnodar “Lokomotiv-Kuban” took revenge on CSKA Moscow in the second game of the United League semi-finals. Alexander Sekulich’s team won the Moscow “Megasport” with a minimum advantage of 84:83 (22:23, 20:14, 20:25, 22:21). The match brought together 2878 spectators.
The winner was a three-point shot from Krasnodar American Okaro White, which he completed a minute and a half before the end of regulation time. After that, the teams traded a number of misses. Then Alexei Shved reduced CSKA’s backlog to a minimum. And the hosts had 5 seconds and a timeout for their final attack. The Army team didn’t play the ball in the best way and Jaylen Burford made an interception.
Okaro White and Alexey Shved became the most productive of each of the teams – 19 points each. As part of Loko, DeVon Akun-Purcell scored another 18, 10 – Zakhar Vedischev, 7 – Vladislav Yemchenko. CSKA also have 14 points from Nikola Milutinov and Kasper Weir.
In the first match 2 days ago, the Muscovites were stronger. Now the score in the series up to 4 wins is equal – 1:1.
The next 2 matches will take place in Krasnodar on April 20 and 22. At least one game will take place in Moscow on April 25.
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