Even Abrams couldn't help Spartak Pleven


Even Abrams couldn't help Spartak Pleven
13-02-2008 21:59 | Александър Сотиров

Even the debute of their latest American addition Melvin Abrams did not help Spartak Pleven to go over their label "weak guest". They lost to CSKA 81-72 and continue to be unstable in their games away from Pleven. Now Spartak have only 3 wins after 12 games away from home. Those wins are against Dunav, Sliven and a 1-point win against Rilski Sportist. They don't have a win against a team from the first 6 in the table, which means, that Spartak has some serious trouble outside of Pleven.
 
Today Spartak Pleven's players were really close to winning, but as their previous trip to Sofia a few days ago against Levski, they had one not so good second half and they didn't make it. In the first 20 minutes they dictated the tempo in Hristo Botev in Sofia and were leading at halftime (33-40).
 
Rosen Barchovski's players looked different in the second half. After a three from Ludmil Hadjisotirov 4:10 minutes before the end of the third CSKA managed to go ahead 49-48. Two minutes later they were leading it 57-48 after a 15-0 run. 5 consecutive points by Bojo Barac made it 59-54 after 30 minutes.
 
5:28 before the end of the game Spartak was ahead 62-63 after a basket by Sasa Topchov. A minute and 47 seconds before the end CSKA lead it 74-72, but from here until the final the guests only scored 3 free throws and nothing more. Michael Henderson (4/4 from FT in the last 9 seconds) sealed the win for CSKA. This is second win for CSKA over Spartak in 2008.
 
Abrams scored 7 points, grabbed 5 rebounds and made 3 assists. He played 26 minutes. Hrisimir Dimitrov scored 23 points, being the top scorer in the game. Croatian Barac had his first double-double for Pleven. Iliya Stankov was disappointing, only scoring 2 points.
 
For CSKA Michael Henderson and Hristo Nikolov both had 21 points.
 
Spartak is hosting Balkan on Saturday, and CSKA is visiting Yambol 

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