CSKA defeat Spartak from Saint Petersburg in the friendly game in Kirishi. It was not official game as the part of the pre-season training.
Dusan Ivkovic continued to change the starting five putting on the floor Holden, Brown, Granger, Muursepp and Andersen. But the first quarter was over with the 8-eight advantage of the team of Andrey Maltsev. Only with the arriving Panov, Savrasenko, Monya and Papaloukas CSKA could recover and get the leadership. They let Spartak to score only 7 points in the second quarter. Army players had not such problems in the second half. They could keep the advantage to the final buzzer.
CSKA vs Spartak SPb: 84-72 (19-27, 27-7, 22-25, 16-13)
Statistic of CSKA players:
Marcus Brown – 18 + 3 rb
Antonio Granger – 13 + 2 rb
Dimos Dikoudis – 11 + 2 rb
Alexey Savrasenko – 10 + 7 rb
Martin Muursepp – 10 + 7 rb
Theodoros Papaloukas – 5 + 3 rb
Sergey Monya – 5 + 2 rb
Jon Robert Holden – 5 + 1 rb
Sergey Panov – 4 + 6 rb
David Andersen – 3 + 1 rb
Zakhar Pashutin – 1 rb