Basketball
Demin played at the level of an NBA star! Americans are delighted with the Russian’s three-pointers
Another powerful match performed by a native of Moscow.
Just a year ago, only fans deeply immersed in youth basketball knew about Yegor Demin. The Russian played for a not-so-famous American university and did not stand out much against the general background. Now, all of America is talking about the 19-year-old defender, who makes spectacular three-pointers.
Buried the favorite with accurate three-pointers
Last night, Demin’s Brooklyn met in an away match of the NBA regular season with one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference, Philadelphia. Two previous matches with this opponent this season ended in fiasco for the Nets. This time the situation also seemed obvious, but the guests managed to organize a sensation (114:106), also thanks to the actions of the Russian player.
Demin set his personal scoring record in the previous match with Fila, scoring 23 points. This time he almost repeated this result, stopping at 20 points. Egor’s main offensive weapon is well known – three-point shots from different positions. He confidently attacks the basket both from the corner and in the center. In the first quarter, his attempt with resistance achieved success. In the third quarter, two threes in a row allowed his team to organize an important breakthrough. Moreover, in one case he managed to hit the basket, despite a foul from Tyrese Maxey.
The bombardment from Demin continued in the final quarter. It was precisely his two accurate long-range hits in a row that prevented the favorite from raising his head. In addition, Egor made three free throws out of three and scored an effective pass at the beginning of the match. In total, the Russian spent 33 minutes 28 seconds on the floor, setting a new personal record for time in one match. It is significant that Brooklyn head coach Jordi Fernandez increasingly trusts the newcomer, with whom the team finds optimal balance.
Together with Demin, the entire team, led by Michael Porter, is progressing in recent matches. One of the best three-point shooters in the league, he averages 25.7 points per game and is clearly influencing his young teammate’s growth. Participation in training with such a master is beneficial for Egor, who has greatly improved in the implementation of long-range attempts – 9 out of 17 in the last two matches.
Brooklyn at the beginning of the season and in its current state are like two different teams. In the first 19 matches they managed to win only three victories, but in the next eight they won six. It is gratifying that Demin became an important component of this success.
Demin forced me to change my opinion about myself
Making three-pointers is far from the only strong point of the Russian. There are plenty of quality long-range shooters in the league, but there are far fewer universal players who can do more than just shoot at the basket. Egor, who provided five assists in the last game, falls into the category of such versatile basketball players.
Vision of the court and the ability to pass a shot are especially valuable to any coach. In terms of assists (3.5), he is third on the team, and in interceptions (0.9) he shares first place with several players. If we take the average number of points scored (9.4), then Yegor has the fifth best result among all Brooklyn players, which can be considered a success for the first season.
Enthusiastic reviews of Demin on various social networks are left by both specialized journalists covering the NBA and ordinary fans. After the draft, some Brooklyn fans were skeptical about the choice of the Russian at number eight, but now there are no longer any dissatisfied with his performance.
“Egor is really starting to find his place in the team. Now he is second among all rookies in the league in the number of three-pointers made. It was the first time he had scored at least 14 points in four straight games. Not bad for a guy who was said to have no shot, says Brooklyn columnist Brett Siegel.
“He’s been rocking it really cool lately!” – such an entry in one of the team’s main fan accounts.
“It’s incredible how everyone began to criticize him after the draft for his lack of a three-point shot, and now this is his main weapon.
“This dude is starting to make a difference.” I’m so glad that they chose it this summer!
– Hey, where are all those who hated him and hastened to write him off? You must apologize. In December, Egor showed what he is capable of.
— If other teams knew that he would progress from shooting 28% on three-pointers in college to the NBA, then they would have taken him much higher than the eighth overall pick in the draft.
In the last four matches, Demin is truly demonstrating a new level of basketball for himself, and his time on the court is growing from game to game. If Yegor looks so confident already at the age of 19, then in the future he has every chance of growing into a real star. He and the entire team will have three days to rest before the next game – on the night from Saturday to Sunday, Demin will face a serious test in the face of Minnesota.
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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