Maxa NBL Playoffs: Pardubice , lifed by Bonham Past Brno to Avoid 0-3 Abyss
Down 0-2 and facing the daunting 0-3 playoff hole, BK KVIS Pardubice responded with a disciplined 82-72 road win in Game 3, narrowing Brno's series lead to 2-1 and buying themselves a lifeline in this best-of-7 matchup.
BK KVIS Pardubice responded with a disciplined 82-72 road win in Game 3 Photo Credit: beksapardubice
There are moments in a playoff series where a team either fractures or finds itself. BK KVIS Pardubice, staring down a potential 0-3 deficit, chose the latter. The 82-72 win on May 21st wasn’t flashy, but it was structured — a team that finally stopped forcing isolation ball and started moving the game.
Bonham’s Dominance and Balanced Scoring
Robert Lee Bonham was the engine: 23 points in 24 minutes forced PUMPA Basket Brno‘s defense into uncomfortable rotations. When your best player is that efficient, spacing opens everywhere else. Jacob Nicholas Evans III (11 points in 22 minutes), Kamil Svrdlik (10), and Joe Bryant Jr. and Jakub Tuma (9 each) all benefited. Five near-double-figure contributors isn’t coincidence — it’s a team distributing possessions intelligently.
PUMPA Basket Brno 72 - 82 BK KVIS Pardubice · Maxa NBL · 21/05/2026Game PTS REB AST PUMPA Basket Brno Matej Rychtecky 2 1 3 Ryker Cisarik 10 4 1 Tevin Olison 17 5 4 Milan Stranel 2 1 0 Radek Farsky 2 2 0 Simon Svoboda 9 1 0 Adam Kejval 9 8 3 Viktor Pulpan 7 6 4 Tomas Jansa 0 0 0 David Jelinek 14 4 4 Kevin Kalu 0 4 0 Viktor Ivanek 0 0 0 BK KVIS Pardubice Vladimir Vondra 0 0 0 Lubos Kovar 3 6 3 Jakub Tuma 9 2 2 Michal Svojanovsky 7 7 1 Trey Bonham 23 1 3 Joe Bryant Jr. 9 4 3 Martin Nabelek 0 0 0 Adam Lukes 2 2 0 Kamil Svrdlik 10 3 1 Jacob Evans 11 3 2 Ryan Moffatt 8 6 1
Tevin Olison was Brno’s best player (17 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists in 25 minutes), and David Jelinek logged a team-high 31 minutes while scoring 14. That Jelinek needed that much time — despite being a secondary scorer — suggests Brno’s offense stalled when the game tightened. A 72-point home output wasn’t enough to hold server
What’s Next
The series is still Brno’s to lose at 2-1. But Pardubice have avoided the psychological catastrophe of 0-3. Now they need Bonham to keep carrying the load while maintaining that five-man offensive distribution. If Brno overcommits to stopping Bonham in Game 4, Evans and Svrdlik have to be ready to punish the overplay.
For Brno, the urgency shifts. They’ve had chances to close this out and haven’t. That weight matters in a best-of-7.
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