Basketball
The Russian team got angry and defeated the participant in the World Cup. With a flag and anthem!
Revenge for the offensive defeat was a success.
The Russian Basketball male team holds a series of friendly matches, which began with an early defeat – the outcome of the meeting decided to throw a throw in the penultimate second. But the answer was not long in coming – in the second match, the member of the World Cup was defeated.
In vain, the opponent angered our basketball players.
A comfortable advantage
The last major international tournament for the Russian Basketball male team was the 2019 World Cup. The team under the leadership of Sergei Bazarevich played without a number of leaders and could not go to the playoffs. Later, due to the transfer of tournaments due to the pandemic of coronavirus, and then because of the ban of Russian sports, it was not possible to take part in the world and European championships, but the national team continues to exist and holds friendly matches.
On Wednesday 30, in the Khimki basketball center, the Russian national team received a participant in the 2020 Olympics and the World Cup-2023-Iranian team. It is worth noting that this was the second match in a row – on the eve of the team of Zoran Lukich, the status of the favorite did not justify, losing 67:70. The most offensive was that the opponent pulled out the victory at the penultimate second of the match. Playing problems and not the best implementation did not fully reveal the potential of the team. But the possibility of revenge remained, and our basketball players were determined to use it.
The Russians confidently started and in the second minute led 5-0. But since this is not football and not even hockey, such an advantage at the beginning of the match did not guarantee anything at all. Nevertheless, the Lukich team increased momentum, soon the gap from the opponent approached the two -digit number (12: 3). The Iranians, however, were not discouraged, taking advantage of the mistakes of our team, the opponent reduced the lag to one accurate throw from behind the arc, but for the first break, Russian basketball players went with a comfortable advantage in the score-24:15.
Reboot for the national team
The Russians were not going to dwell on this – the exact hits of Ilya Frolov, Vsevolod Ishchenko, Anton Kvitkovsky, Maxim Barashkov, Timofei Gerasimov allowed our team a novel 13: 0 at a specific segment and 37:15 in the match. True, the Iranians quickly came to their senses and answered with their jerk 12: 1. For a big break, the Lukich team left, leaving 11 points (38:27), but the rebooting of the national team was definitely required, otherwise the advantage of the next several attacks painted completely evaporated.
In the third quarter, the attack of the national team showed itself from the best side-in ten minutes our basketball players scored 30 points, still holding the opponent at a decent distance. Seven recorded the striker of MBA-May Barashkov at his own expense, eight-the defender of Uralmash Gerasimov. Iranian basketball players tried to keep up much, but lost the key segment of the match – returning to the final quarter from 46:68 was already extremely problematic.
The Iranians, however, tried: they started the chase with three exact penalties, but even a hint of some fracture in the confrontation did not follow. The Russians continued to hold the advantage of more than two dozen points, and brought the matter to a confident victory – 79:58. Revenge was a success, our basketball players proved that even in the experimental composition they can easily deal with the participant in the World Cup. By the way, with another participant in the World-2023 championship, the Egyptian team, the Lukich team will have to play on the road in early August.
Source: Sportbox
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Paris Nizhny Novgorod beat Zenit St. Petersburg in an away match of the VTB United League regular season.
The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 99:89 (18:13 27:21, 27:28, 27:27) in favor of the guests. The most productive player of the meeting was the basketball player of the Nizhny Novgorod team Isaiah Washington – 28 points. Zenit has 18 points from Levi Randolph. Andrey Martyuk also scored a double-double for the St. Petersburg team (12 points and 12 rebounds).
The Nizhny Novgorod team defeated Zenit in St. Petersburg for the first time since October 2019, the league press service reports.
Paris Nizhny Novgorod is in ninth place in the standings, Zenit is fourth.
Watch live broadcasts of VTB United League matches on the TV channels of the Match group, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source: Sportbox
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Krasnodar Lokomotiv-Kuban defeated Moscow MBA-MAI in an away match of the VTB United League.
The meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 107:82 (27:24, 26:22, 27:17, 27:19). The most productive player of the match was Lokomotiv-Kuban basketball player Patrick Miller, who scored 23 points. MBA-MAI has 17 points from Maxim Barashkov.
Lokomotiv-Kuban (14 wins/8 losses) is in fifth position in the VTB United League standings, MBA-MAI (10/10) is sixth.
Watch live broadcasts of VTB United League matches on the TV channels of the Match group, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source: Sportbox
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Basketball
A stadium in Europe was drowned in Russian flags. The vile prank of the Balts did not go unanswered
Photo: © RIA Novosti / Vitaly Belousov
A beautiful gesture from the fraternal people.
Sanctions against Russian athletes are gradually being eased, but for the most part they are still in effect. Today, there is a growing understanding in the global sports community that without our athletes, international competitions lose a lot.
An important point in this situation is not only the political will of individual officials, but also the opinion of ordinary citizens of Western countries. Often ordinary people show much more common sense than officials.
Fans of the European club hung Russian flags in the stands to support our athletes in a difficult situation.
Reply to Lithuanians
In April 2022, the moral panic around everything Russian was at its peak. It is not surprising that in European countries every public event was used to make one or another statement on a topic. The Baltic states, traditionally unfriendly towards Russia, especially tried.
Thus, during the Euroleague basketball match between the Lithuanian Zalgiris and the Serbian Red Star in Kaunas, local fans staged a political provocation: during the game, NATO flags appeared in the stands, and spectators began shouting insulting words at the Serbian basketball players.
The reason was that the Serbian side has always supported Russia in international conflicts. Before the match, the Crvena Zvezda basketball players followed this tradition and refused to be photographed with an anti-Russian banner, as the Zalgiris players did. If now the Olympic principle of political neutrality of sport is gradually being remembered, then in the West they preferred to hypocritically remain silent about it when it came to Russia.
Some time later, when Crvena was already playing a home match with the Turkish club Anadolu Efes, Serbian fans unfurled Russian flags in the stands, as well as banners with crossed out emblems of NATO and the European Union. Ordinary people of Serbia have shown that they are unequivocally on the side of the fraternal people.
Consistent support
Fans of Red Star, a club that has teams in many sports, have generally always had close ties to Russia. For example, the friendship between the fan movements of the Belgrade club and Moscow Spartak is well known. Football fans from Serbia have also expressed support for the Russians more than once. Back in 2017, during the match between Crvena and Krasnodar in the Europa League, flags with the Russian coat of arms were raised at the Rajko Mitić stadium.
Russian flags appear regularly at matches of the Serbian football championship. The most interesting thing is that it is very easy to get a tricolor in the Balkan country: just buy a Serbian flag and turn it over – and there you have the Russian flag. The fans, of course, take advantage of this opportunity.
In February 2025, we again watched the basketball confrontation between Red Star and Zalgiris in the Euroleague. This time, all the stands of the arena in Belgrade were painted in the colors of the Russian flag, and the fans sang “Katyusha” and MakSim’s song “Do You Know” – the unofficial anthem of Moscow Spartak.
“These Russian songs and banners were a reminder of the strong ties between the Serbian and Russian peoples that have lasted for centuries, and they also show an even stronger relationship between the fans of Red Star and Spartak Moscow,” a spokesman for the Serbian team told Sport24.
The longer Russian clubs and national teams remain suspended from international competition, the more the global sports community sees the absurdity of these sanctions – especially against the backdrop of double standards that apply when it comes to other countries.
Source: Sportbox
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