Sachar Yuryevich Pashutin

Sachar Pashutin
Player information
Full name	Sachar Yuryevich Pashutin
birthday	May 3, 1974
place of birth	Sochi, Soviet Union
size	196 cm
position	Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
1990–1993 BK Spartak Saint Petersburg 1993–1999 Avtodor Saratow 1999–2000 Pınar Karşıyaka 2000–2001 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2001–2008 PBK CSKA Moscow → 2003–2004 Ural Great Perm 2008–2010 Spartak Saint Petersburg 2010–2012 UNICS Kazan
National team
1996-2008	Russia

Sachar Jurjewitsch Paschutin medal table
Basketball (men)
Russia
World Championship
silver	1998 Athens
European Championship
bronze	1997 Spain
gold	2007 Spain

Sakhar Yuryevich Paschutin ( Russian Захар Юрьевич Пашутин ; born May 3, 1974 in Sochi , RSFSR ) is a former Russian basketball player . With PBK CSKA from Moscow , Paschutin won twice the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague and five Russian championships, as well as the second most important European club competition Eurocup 2010/11 with UNICS from Kazan . With the Russian national team he was runner-up in 1998 and European champion in 2007.

Club career

From the 1990/91 season, Sachar Paschutin had his first appearances at the age of 16 in the first team of Spartak from Saint Petersburg , in which his five-year-old brother Yevgeny played. While his brother played for various other clubs in Russia from 1991, Sachar initially stayed with Spartak and won the championship of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1992 after the runner-up in 1991 . In the Russian championship played since the previous year, they reached the runner-up behind defending champion CSKA Moscow in 1993. In 1993 the brothers found together again at Avtodor in Saratov and again won the runner-up in 1994 behind series champions CSKA. Yevgeni then played in the 1994/95 season for MBK Dynamo Moscow , with whom he was again runner-up. From 1995 they played again together with Avtodor Saratov and after a third place in 1996 they won the runner-up behind the series champion CSKA three times in a row. Most of the European club competitions were eliminated prematurely. In 1998 they reached the semi-finals in the then EuroCup , in which they were defeated by the later title holder Žalgiris Kaunas . In the following season 1998/99 you were allowed to start in the then FIBA Europaliga , but retired in the first group stage after three wins in sixteen games. In 1999, the two brothers parted ways when they both moved abroad.

In the 1999/2000 season Sachar Paschutin played in Turkish Izmir for Pınar Karşıyaka . After a fourth place in the main round they were eliminated in the play-off quarter-final series for the championship. In the following season he won the French Cup and the French runner- up with the French record champions ASVEL from Villeurbanne . In the 2000/01 season, the FIBA Europa League was divided into the Suproleague organized by FIBA Europa and the ULEB Euroleague organized by the ULEB . With ASVEL, Sachar Paschutin was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Suproleague against CSKA Moscow. He then returned to Russia and joined CSKA, which had not won the Russian championship for the first time in 2001, but failed in the semifinals at the eventual champions Ural Great from Perm . In the 2001/02 season it was even more disappointing when they were eliminated in the first play-off round against Pashutin's former club Awtodor. In the 2002/03 season Yevgeny also came to CSKA and the two brothers played together again and both won their first Russian championship after defeating defending champions Ural Great in the final series. While Yevgeny ended his playing career, Sakhar was loaned out for one season to the final loser Ural Great. Ural Great was eliminated in the semifinals of the Russian championship in 2004, but won the cup final against CSKA.

In 2004 Sachar Paschutin returned to CSKA, where his brother Yevgeny was now working as an assistant coach . While ZSKA was subsequently able to win the Russian championships, they achieved fourth place in the Final Four tournament in the European League, which has now been reunited and now completely organized by the ULEB, after 2003 in 2005 . In the ULEB Euroleague 2005/06 they won the title for the first time after beating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the final and reached the triple after winning the Russian cup competition as in 2005. In the ULEB Euroleague 2006/07 they lost the final against Panathinaikos Athens , while they won the double again at national level . In the ULEB Euroleague 2007/08 they won again the title in the final against Maccabi Tel Aviv, while they lost the Russian Cup final against BK Chimki . Then both brothers left CSKA Moscow and went back to Spartak Saint Petersburg, where they started their careers. Yevgeny Pashutin became head coach at Spartak and Sachar his player.

In the Russian championship 2008/09 Sachar Paschutin retired with Spartak in the semifinals against runner-up BK Chimki. The same was repeated in the first play-off round in 2009/10, when the same opponent was just beaten in five games. Yevgeny Pashutin, who was head coach of CSKA Moscow in the 2009/10 season, became the coach of third-placed UNICS Kazan in the 2010/11 season. Sachar also switched to UNICS and together they won the Eurocup 2010/11 . The Russian championship was played for the first time in the newly founded Professionalnaja Basketbolnaja League . After the main round first, they lost the play-off semi-final series just against runner-up BK Chimki. By winning the Eurocup they played in the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 , in which they immediately reached the quarter-final play-offs, in which they were eliminated in three games against the Spanish champions Regal FC Barcelona . While in the Eastern European VTB United League 2011/12 they successfully came after first place in Group A to the final, which was lost to the other group winners CSKA Moscow, they only reached fifth place in the national Russian championship. Yevgeny then left the club as a coach and Sakhar finally ended his playing career.

National team

At the 1997 European Basketball Championships , Sachar Paschutin was first used in a final squad of the Russian national team . After losing to Italy in the semi-finals , they won the bronze medal in the game for third place against Greece , against which they had lost in the preliminary round. Together with his brother Yevgeny, Sachar was only a supplementary player in the team led by Vasily Karassjow and Sergei Babkow in the backcourt positions. At the following Basketball World Cup in 1998 , Yevgeny was not represented in the squad, while the Russian team, led by Karassjow, who was later elected to the all-tournament team , made it to the final. Until the final you were only defeated by BR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in the preliminary round after extra time. After a narrow victory in the semifinals against the national basketball team of the United States , which had no NBA professionals , they faced Yugoslavia again in the final, which they were defeated by just two points after a half-time lead.

At the European Championships in 1999 , the Paschutin brothers were again represented together in the final squad. After Babkow was no longer used after the preliminary round, Sachar was a regular from the intermediate round. In the quarter-finals they clearly lost to Italy and after a victory in the placement round over Germany they finally reached sixth place, which was also the last qualification place for the 2000 Olympic Games . Under the new national coach Stanislaw Jerjomin , the Pashutin brothers were always represented in the following final squads. Due to the poorer direct comparison , they only reached fourth place in preliminary group B at the Olympic Games and after a quarter-final defeat against the US-Americans who competed with NBA professionals, who again won the gold medal as defending champions, were eliminated from the medal award. In the end, they finished eighth after losing twice over against Canada . Sachar was still fully motivated in this game and achieved in 43 minutes the respective team's best performances of 23 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists , which were also his best tournament performances.

At the EM 2001 , after two convincing first wins, they only lost the last, rather insignificant preliminary round match against Italy and the quarter-finals against the later bronze medalist Spain . After two more wins in the placement round, they came in fifth and qualified for the 2002 World Cup . In the shooting guard position, Sachar Paschutin formed a duo with Sergei Schikalkin , who was the second most important scorer behind Andrei Kirilenko at the European Championships with 17 points per game . Sachar Paschutin, on the other hand, was the most important scorer of the Russian national team at the 2002 World Cup with 16 points per game. However, Kirilenko was injured after the preliminary round of the World Cup and Russia had already lost the two opening games against the surprise team of the tournament and later semi-finalists New Zealand and against eventual world champions Argentina . In the second round, there were two more defeats against hosts United States and the later bronze medalist Germany and the early elimination from the tournament. Coach Jerjomin was allowed to say goodbye and brother Yevgeny ended his playing career after the following season.

At the EM 2003 they lost the quarter-finals again, this time against the previously undefeated French , and then also the remaining games in the placement round, so that qualification for the 2004 Olympic Games was missed. At the following European Championship in 2005 it was hardly any better. After two convincing opening wins and the almost certain qualification for the final round, they made a one-point defeat in the final preliminary round against the eventual silver medalist Germany and then lost the quarter-finals again against eventual European champions Greece. Especially in the shooting guard position, Russia had problems in this game, the younger and less experienced Sergei Monja and Vitali Fridson each hit only one throw from the field, while Pashutin had not made a single throw attempt in eleven minutes against the Greeks. The 27 points in 34 minutes in the placement round against Lithuania , with which Paschutin was the team's top scorer in his personal tournament best , no longer meant any consolation for the experienced shooting guard. Two defeats in the placement round meant eighth place and missed qualification for the 2006 World Cup .

At the 2007 European Championships , David Blatt had become national coach and nominated the 33-year-old Pashutin again for the final squad. The Russian team was convincing and on the way to the final only lost one intermediate round game with 12 points against hosts Spain. In the final they met the title favorites again and won with one point in the last minute. This secured the gold medal and the first title win of the Russian national team after the thirteen successes of the national basketball team of the USSR . At the following Olympic Games in 2008 , however, the reigning European champion disappointed when they were eliminated prematurely after only one preliminary round victory. The 2008 Olympic Games were the last national team tournament for the then 34-year-old Pashutin.

Web links

• Pashutin, Zakhar - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Zakhar PASHUTIN (RUS) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Zakhar Pashutin | EuroBasket 2007 | FIBA Europe - player profile on the website of FIBA Europe for EM 2007 (English)
• N 11 Zakhar Pashutin - player profile on the pages of UNICS Kazan (English)
• PBC CSKA Moscow | Team | Zahar Pashutin - player profile on the website of CSKA Moscow (English, as of 2008)
• Zakhar Pashutin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zakhar Pachoutine - Turkish Basketball League Player / 1999-2000 Regular Season. TBLStat.net, accessed on November 5, 2011 (English, player statistics). 
2. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 2000 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men / Boxscore CANADA vs RUSSIA. FIBA , accessed on November 5, 2011 (English, game statistics). 
3. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 2005 EuroBasket / Box Score: Game: RUSSIA vs GREECE. FIBA , accessed on November 5, 2011 .