The Presidential Basketball Club “Astana” will hold the next home series of games in the National League against the Aktau “Caspiy”, which will be held in the capital on January 28 and 29.
“Caspiy» - is a Kazakhstan professional basketball club from the city of Aktau, founded in 2008.
Achievements:
- Bronze medalist of the Championship of Kazakhstan: 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2016/2017
- Bronze medalist of the Kazakhstan Cup: 2012, 2013, 2017
In the upcoming games, «Astana: will dot all the i's and cross all the t's with the Aktau «Caspiy» as part of the National League regular season. For “Astana” the games in Aktau were the first in the current season in the National Championship, and then our team won two major victories with a difference of more than 30 points on November 15,
54:90 and November 16,
52:83. After those games, the Aktau has team spent 14 matches, playing with all their rivals in the championship. At the same time, only two victories were won by the Caspians, and in both cases it was home victories; one against «Sinegorye» and the second in the match against «Aktobe». Upcoming matches for the «Caspiy» will be the final in the regular season.
Standings: “Caspiy” at the moment closes the standings, and in any situation, they will finish the regular season of the National League on the sixth last line. “Astana” has already secured a first place in the ranking of teams, and the outcome of the games with “Caspiy” will not affect the position of the capital’s team.
Changes in the roster: after previous games, immediately three players of the Aktau team had left «Caspiy», and all of them are Kazakhstanis — center Nikita Timofeev and Daniel Albrant, as well as guard Bogdan Lash, but in the games in Aktau against our team “Caspiy” they only played with Nikita Timofeev. And after those games, the Aktau players signed three new players, two of whom were citizens of the United States of America, these are a guard Lionel Ellison III and center Graham Travis. Both players are quite young and do not have a professional career behind them. Also, another “big” one has joined the “Caspiy”, is Kazakhstani Gleb Zhukov, who had previously played for «Aktobe».
Leaders of the rivals: American Graham Travis has spent only 6 games for the Aktau team, but led the rating by performance, gaining an average of 16.3 points per game, making 4.7 rebounds and 2.5 interceptions. Russian Denis Orlenko is the absolute leader in block shots of the entire National League, making almost 3 block shots in each game, while the Russian center also brings the team an average of 9.4 points per game and 11.2 rebounds. American guard Lionel Ellison III has managed to play 10 matches, with an average performance of 10.2 points per game and 4.2 rebounds. Among the Kazakhstanis, the team’s most effective players are a guard Vladimir Kurochkin and a forward Aimurat Satkeev, who always are in the starting five. Also, it is worth noting the guards among the Kazakhstanis: Valeriy Simonov and Danil Davletbaev, as well as a newcomer, center Gleb Zhukov.
Matches will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday on January 28 and 29 in Nur-Sultan in the Sary-Arka cycle track arena. The beginning of both games
at 19:30 Nur-Sultan time. Online broadcasts of matches will be available on the main page of our website, as well as live on QazSport.
Detailed information about the tournament, standings, the schedule and match results are published in the
Tournaments section.
