UNICS Kazan led from start to finish, hitting a club-record 15 triples, to run past host Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 78-98 at the Aleksandar Nikolic Hall on Friday night. It was the sixth win in last seven games for UNICS, which improved to 7-5 on the season, while Zvezda lost its third straight to drop to 4-8 record.
UNICS blows past Zvezda in Belgrade, 78-98
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Round 12 of 34
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UNICS scored the first 8 points of the game and held a double-digit lead in the first quarter. The hosts did get within 3 points in the second quarter but never got closer as UNICS broke the game wide open in the third and led by as many as 25 points in the fourth. John Brown paced the winner with 18 points. Mario Hezonja and Isaiah Canaan scored 17 apiece, while Dmitrii Uzinski scored 11 in the winning effort. Austin Hollins finished with 15 points for the hosts. Nate Wolters had 13, Ognjen Dobric 11 and Nikola Kalinic 10.
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UNICS came out red-hot, with Hezonja nailing 2 triples and Uzinskii another to open a 2-11 lead. Kalinic, Wolters and Dobric all scored close-range baskets, getting Zvezda's offense going, but another three from Uzinskii and a jumper from John Brown helped extend the UNICS lead to 10-20. The visitors dominated the boards and held Zvezda to just 1 field goal over 5 minutes of the quarter while a floater from O.J. Mayo and a transition triple from Canaan opened a 12-26 margin. Zvezda finished the first quarter with a dunk from Hollins that made it 16-26. UNICS opened the second with Marco Spissu feeding Tonye Jekiri for a dunk, then Spissu getting a lucky bounce on a triple to help open an 18-33 lead. Zvezda got a boost with a pair of triples from Branko Lazic. A subsequent pair of baskets by Kalinic at the rim cut the deficit to 32-35. Hezonja snapped an 11-0 Zvezda run with a three-pointer, then layups from Uzinskii and John Brown helped UNICS take a 39-47 lead into halftime.
Lazic opened the second half making a layup, but a jumper from John Brown followed by back-to-back triples from Uzinskii and Hezonja made it 41-55. Wolters knocked down a three for the hosts, but a floater from Lorenzo Brown followed by offensive rebounds and close-range baskets from Jekiri and John Brown opened a 44-63 difference midway through the third. A corner triple from Hollins snapped a 3-16 UNICS spurt and sparked a 7-0 run that gave Zvezda life, but the visitors had another answer. John Brown had an easy layup and Spissu hit a triple, but after Dobric answered with a triple, Canaan nailed his back-to-back to make it 55-76 in the final minute of the third quarter. Hollins had a pair of dunks for the hosts, but Canaan scored 8 points for the visitors, including another pair of back-to-back long-range shots, as the lead ballooned to 66-91 midway through the fourth quarter as UNICS cruised the rest of the way.
