Avtodor (Saratov) vs. CSKA: 79-91 (+12)
Avtodor: Downs (15 + 3 rb + 3 to), Fortson (14 + 3 rb + 9 as), Vzdyhalkin (9 + 3 rb), Bekkiev (3), Klimenko (13 + 3 st + 4 pf), Gudumak (7), Chappell (6 + 9 rb + 7 as + 4 pf), Peterson (12 + 9 rb + 5 pf)…
CSKA: De Colo (11 + 4 as + 4 to + 4 pf), Teodosic (24 + 7 rb), Fridzon (14 + 6 rb + 2 bs), Nichols (2 + 4 pf), Jackson (10 + 3 rb), Markoishvili (7), Korobkov (2), Vorontsevich (6 + 5 rb + 4 pf), Kaun (13 + 3 rb), Hines (2 + 9 rb)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
It was an interesting game for fans and I am glad to see that people in Saratov come to the games and support their team. I would like also to thank our fans who were loud and we felt their support even though they were placed in the corner. We are happy and proud to receive this kind of help. As for the game we started nervous. We shot a lot of threes with bad percentage but changed a game, started to drive more to create off the drives. In the end we made almost 65% of our two-point shots and stopped the hottest players of Avtodor. Still there are a lot of things to analyze. First of all, the fact that we did not defend our lead, allowed our opponents to make 11-0 run by making bad foul, taking bad decision on offense, making mistakes. Still my congratulations to the player with the win against another good quick team.
