Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade snapped a three-game losing streak by claiming a solid 58-69 road win over Zenit St Petersbourg at Sibur Arena on Friday night.
Zvezda suffocates Zenit on the road, 58-69
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The visitors had a strong start on offense, leading 16-23 after the first period, and confirmed the outcome by holding the home team to just 24 points in the following 20 minutes, good enough to build a 40-58 advantage that Zvezda never surrendered. Nate Wolters paced the winners with 14 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, as Nikola Kalinic and Ognjen Kuzmic netted 11 points apiece to help Zvezda improve to 5-8. Jordan Mickey was the game top scorer with 16 points and Conner Frankamp added 12 for Zenit, who dropped to 8-5 with its second loss in a row.
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Zvezda put on an extraordinary offensive display after the opening tip, converting their first 7 possessions to build a 6-15 edge after 6 minutes behind 9 points from big man Kuzmic. Frankamp was the only Zenit player able to score from the field until Arturas Gudaitis slammed to make get the hosts within 12-19. Zenit managed to improve under the boards, but a pair of buckets by Branko Lazic and Kalinic helped Zvezda maintain a comfortable margin, 16-23, at the end of the first quarter.
Baskets by Wolters and Ognjen Dobric extended Zvezda's lead to double-digits, 16-27, as soon as the game resumed. Even though Andrey Zubkov contributed a three-point play and Mickey scored inside to avoid an early escape by Zvezda, the visitors had already turned the game into a defensive battle in which they felt secure. Five points in a row by Wolters kept Zvezda in charge, 23-35. Lazic showed up later to convert the only triple for any team in the second quarter and Mitrovic scored a layup at the buzzer to send the game to the locker rooms with the visitors enjoying a 28-42 advantage.
That trend didn't change much after the break. Mickey and Frankamp tried to light the fuse for Zenit on offense, but Zvezda first found Wolters, then Austin Hollins stepped up to drill a corner three that raised the difference to 35-50 midway through the third period. Baskets were few and far between from then on, as a lone trey by Sergey Karasev and an inside bucket by Maik Zirbes were the only good news on offense for either team during a five-minute span. Zirbes showed up again to turn a couple of steals into uncontested baskets that put Zenit's back against the wall at 38-58. Frankamp managed to snap Zvezda's 0-8 run with a jump shot that closed the third quarter at 40-58.
Even though Zvezda needed 2 minutes of the fourth to find its first field goal on a corner three from Dobric, Zenit couldn't get it going and kept trailing by a large margin, 44-61, with 7 minutes remaining. Dobric continued to contribute on offense and Zvezda needed no one else to stay comfortably ahead, 44-65. Free throws by Jordan Loyd and Mateusz Ponitka, and 6 straight points by Mickey allowed the home team to keep believing, 54-68, but a missed three by Billy Baron and a turnover by Karasev in the final minute put the game to sleep.
