Russia: Guards On Fire As Dynamo March On

12.11.2006

Dynamo Moscow Region followed up their impressive EuroCup-opening win at BC Barons Riga by thumping Spartak Vgues Primorie in Russia on Saturday.

The guard combination of Nikolai Padius and Audrius Giedraitis wreaked havoc as Rutenis Paulauskas' men prevailed 96-84 at home.

Padius had 29 points on nine of 15 (60%) shooting, including four of seven (57%) from three-point range.

Giedraitis was six of eight (75%) from the floor and one of two (50%)  from the arc en route to a 19-point afternoon.

The hosts took a 34-23 lead in the first-quarter and rode that advantage to victory.

The lead ballooned to 86-67 in the fourth quarter, and though Spartak mounted a brave fightback that saw them reduce to the deficit to 90-84 on Victor Keyru's basket with two minutes remaining, they got no closer.

Dynamo Moscow Region have parted company with Goran Jagodnik by mutual agreement, according to the club's official web-site.

Jagodnik made eight appearances for Dynamo this season, averaging 7.1 points and 2.3 rebounds.

He did not play in Dynamo's EuroCup win over BC Barons.

Ural-Great Perm rolled to an 86-78 EuroCup triumph at PBC CSKA Sofia in midweek but they lost 89-82 at home on Sunday to Khimki, last year's beaten finalists in the EuroCup.

Lokomotiv Rostov enjoyed a winning start to their EuroCup campaign with a 69-65 victory in Group C at Atomeromu but they slipped up at home to UNICS Kazan, 85-71 on Saturday.

Lokomotiv-Rostov have signed 25-year-old guard Ilya Alexandrov from Metallurg-Universitet Magnitogorsk on a one-year contract. Alexandrov was voted the best player of the Russian Superleague B last season when he averaged 23.9 points and 5.2 rebounds per game.

Theo Papaloukas and David Andersen each had 16 points to lead a balanced CSKA Moscow attack in a 108-62 mauling of Spartak St Petersburg.

Ettore Messina's men had a 53-30 stranglehold on the game at half-time and marched to victory.


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