CSKA vs. Maccabi (Tel Aviv): 100-69 (+31)
CSKA: De Colo (17 + 3 rb), D.Kulagin (2), Teodosic (15 + 5 as), Fridzon (11 + 4 rb), Nichols (10 + 5 rb), Jackson (12 + 7 as), Korobkov (4 + 4 pf), Kravtsov (7 + 3 rb), Vorontsevich (9 + 7 rb), Higgins (7 + 5 rb), Kurbanov (3 rb), Hines (6 + 4 rb)…
Maccabi: Farmar (17 + 3 rb), Bender (7), Smith (6 + 6 rb), Pnini (3), Ohayon (13 + 4 pf), Faverani (3), Landesberg (2), Rochestie (14), Mbakwe (2 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Onuaku (2 + 7 rb)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
I think you saw that our team dominated on the floor tonight, and I’d like to congratulate my players for that. I liked the pace we had, the tone which was picked up off defense. I liked how we played on the glass, we had 16 rebounds offensively taking almost the same number as Maccabi (19). Talking about rebounding battle I can dig even deeper to the stats and mention 8 team rebounds – that says how the players boxed out and dived for the balls. We understand that Maccabi missed such an important player like Randle but we still played very good game. I said to the team that we have to turn the page and play even better because we did not reach our peak yet. I’d like to mention also that we really like to play in front of the full gym and I hope to see at least the same number of fans when we face Khimki on Monday. I’d like also to express my deepest condolences to the family of Nate Huffman who passed away today.
