CSKA vs. Alba Berlin: 80-65 (+15)
Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:
Alba played good game in Madrid last week, it lost by small margin, therefore I am happy with the win and with the quality of our game during some stretches, especially in the second quarter when we showed good defense and balance. We had some physical problems. Obviously Khryapa is still out, Teodosic had back pains last few days, he is slowly getting better, Weems got some quick fouls. Still we were able to get some energy from many players. Papaloukas and Jackson played great in the second quarter, Vorontsevich throughout the game. Sasha Kaun and Nenad Krstic played well also. What hurt us mostly in the second half is that we could play better defense on Wood and we shot bad from 2-point distance which is uncharacteristic for us. That made our life complicated.