Apollon Patras (Greece) vs. CSKA: 62-67 (+5)
Apollon Patras: Argyropoulos (7), Galloway (17 + 4 rb), Penn (10 + 5 rb), Fitzpatrick (5 + 6 rb + 4 to), Batis (3 st + 5 to), El-Amin (7 + 3 rb), Molfetas (1), Skordilis (15 + 11 rb + 5 pf)…
CSKA: Fridzon (10 + 3 to), Nichols (6), Jackson (10 + 3 st), Markoishvili (5), Korobkov (2 + 3 to + 4 pf), Weems (13 + 3 rb), Zozulin (1 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Strebkov (4 + 3 rb), Vorontsevich (2 + 3 rb), Kaun (6), Khryapa (4 rb), Hines (8 + 5 rb)…
CSKA played without Milos Teodosic (participates in World Cup), Nando de Colo (left hand injury) and junior team players Alexander Gavrilov, Alexander Gankevich and Mikhail Maleiko.
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
It was our first game and we wanted to evaluate the situation first of all. We came into the game after 6 days of hard practices and after morning practice. And I’ve seen what I expected to see. We weren’t making open jumpers, we made defensive mistakes. We tried to work on defensive rebounding, boxing out and other game situations. Now we wait for the other players to return and we continue our preparations. I wish best of luck to Milos in tonight’s final game.
