Pi Jey Carlsen sent Tornike Shengelia from League D to “Springfield Armor” due to lack of playing in “Brooklyn Nets”. Today at dawn young Georgian forwar played against “Ford Vein Med Arts” and lost 110:119, but in spite of failure, Tornike was one of the distinguished players in the match and scored double-double. Shengelia was in the start five and played for 38:39. During this time he had 21 points (6-11 two-point kicks, 1-5 three-point kicks, 6-11 free kicks), 10 rebounds , 2 assists, 1 steal and 9 block-shots.

Zaza Pachulia and his “Atlanta” goes on 6-away-match series. After 3 victories in a row, “Hawks” was in a good form in Arizona lost with “Phoenix”- 87:92. Georgian centre started playing from the substitutions and played for 24:42. During this time he scored 8 points (2-2 two-point kicks, 4-4 penalty kicks), 8 rebounds, 2 assist kicks and 2 steals.

In spite of today’s failures, “Atlanta” is in the fourth place in Eastern Conference (33 victories and 24 failures) and it has a good chance for going through the play-off.

Giorgi Barbakadze