Minsk residents are approaching the end of the season in the VTB United League. In April, our team will have two home matches, and the first of them will be held on April 3 at the Falcon Club Arena against Avtodor Saratov. Read more about the upcoming match in the preview.
Season 2023/24
In the last five matches of the second stage, Milenko Bogichevic's team turned out to be stronger than Runa and Astana, but lost to Uralmash, MBA and Samara. Despite the series of losses, the Saratov team still remains on the 3rd line of the standings in group “B”. In order to maintain the chances of getting into the play-in, Avtodor needs to add wins in the remaining four matches to its piggy bank. MINSK will have to focus, among other things, in the fight under its own ring, as the Russian opponent demonstrates one of the best indicators among the League teams in terms of the number of rebounds in attack.
Leaders
The leaders of the opposing team are Malik Newman and Rayshon Hammonds. The last one in the line-up Avtodor took part in all the games of the season with an average of 16.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists, spending an average of slightly more than 27 minutes per match on the floor. Malik Newman averages 16.9 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals in 30.17 minutes on the court in 17 games. Attacking defender Dominic Mavra is among the TOP 5 players in the League in terms of the number of rebounds per match (5.5).
MINSK defender Grigory Motovilov: Avtodor is a well–balanced team, with a deep bench, which has recently been showing high-quality basketball and has first-class performers in every position. We, in turn, will try to maintain the level of basketball that we have shown in the last 2 games. We will try to improve it, score our open shots and win.
The roster of the opponent
Avtodor, Saratov
Guards
0. Syndarius Thornwell, 11.15.1994, 196 cm, USA,
1. Vitalijus Pranauskis, 08.12.2002, 195 cm, Russia,
8. Matvey Popov, 01.25.2004, 194 cm, Russia,
14. Malik Newman, 02.21.1997, 190 cm, USA,
30. Dominik Mavra, 06.15.1994, 195 cm, Croatia,
77. Vitaly Fridzon, 14.10.1985, 195 cm, Russia.
Forwards
3. Dusan Beslac, 06.10.1998, 206 cm, Serbia,
7. Denis Naumov, 05.14.2003, 202 cm, Russia,
9. Alexander Petenev, 11.24.2000, 197 cm, Russia,
12. Andrey Fedorov, 08.19.2003, 200 cm, Russia,
15. Brandon Garrett, 30.08.1990, 206 cm, USA,
47. Yaroslav Pechenjian, 03.13.2004, 199 cm, Russia.
Centers
11. Dmitry Khaldeev, 03.04.1999, 210 cm, Russia,
13. Rachon Hammonds, 11.10.1997, 206 cm, USA.
The head coach is Milenko Bogicevic, Serbia.
The game starts at 18:15, tickets can be purchased on the website and at points of sale kvitki.by , as well as in the lobby of the arena an hour before the start of the match. Your support is important to the team!