One more step

16.04.2015
Sonny Weems (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Our team used its home-court advantage perfectly beating Panathinaikos second time in a row in Euroleague playoffs.

CSKA vs. Panathinaikos (Athens): 100-80 (+20)


CSKA: De Colo (16 + 4 as), Teodosic (5 + 8 as), Nichols (7), Jackson (5), Markoishvili (9), Korobkov (3), Weems (20 + 3 st + 3 to), Vorontsevich (3 + 4 rb), Kaun (9), Khryapa (3), Hines (4 + 3 rb), Kirilenko (16 + 4 rb + 3 bs)…

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos (14 + 4 rb), Jankovic (10 + 4 pf), Fotsis (12 + 5 rb), Pappas (13), Mavrokefalidis (2), Diamantidis (6 + 6 as + 3 to + 4 pf), Gist (13 + 4 rb), Batista (10 + 4 rb + 3 to)…



Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Congratulations to my team with second win. We dominated and played serious most of the game and deserved to win. It was another good performance by our team, we are 2-0 in series, protected our home court but our wishes are higher. We have to be ready for the Game 3 and we have topics to work on. As you saw Panathinaikos stepped up after the loss in Game 1, played more aggressive and will play even better in OAKA. Still I believe in my team. If we execute our plan, we will demonstrate good basketball in any circumstances. Considering that we played second game in three days I like the fact that we had 28 assists, played as a team, shared the ball and created open looks. Everyone played not for himself but for CSKA, this is what important. I would like to thank our fans who provided great support to us.


Photos
Andrey Kirilenko (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Nando De Colo (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Alexander  Kaun (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Manuchar Markoishvili (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Demetris Nichols (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Aaron Lee Jackson (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Kyle Hines (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Victor Khryapa blocks the shot (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Andrey Vorontsevich (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Pаvel Korobkov (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Dimitris Itoudis (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
CSKA dance team (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
(photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Sonny Weems (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Alexander  Kaun (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Andrey Kirilenko (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Dimitris Itoudis and Nando De Colo (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
(photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Demetris Nichols (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
CSKA fans (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Aaron Lee Jackson (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
CSKA (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Anastasiya Shumkova (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Aaron Lee Jackson (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Andrey Kirilenko and Alexander  Kaun (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Sonny Weems (photo: Y. Kuzmin, cskabasket.com)
Andrey Kirilenko (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
(photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)