Crvena Zvezda Belgrad vs. CSKA Moscow: 78-67 (-11)
Crvena Zvezda: Wolters (9), Dangubic (7), Mitrovic (2), Lazic (2), Simonovic (14 + 3 rb), Jenkins (11 + 3 rb + 6 as + 6 st), Guduric (9 + 3 rb + 3 to), Jovic (6 + 5 rb + 3 to + 4 pf), Kuzmic (16 + 10 rb + 2 bs), Bjelica (2)…
CSKA: De Colo (6), Teodosic (6 + 4 as + 6 to), Augustine (3 + 6 rb), Fridzon (2), Jackson (10 + 4 rb + 8 as + 5 to), Antonov (2 + 4 pf), Vorontsevich (21), Kurbanov (8 + 3 rb), Hines (9 + 5 rb + 4 pf)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
First of all I want to say congratulations to Red Star. They deserved to win. Obviously the bad start is what was chasing us like a shadow the whole game. This 13-0 hurt us a lot. This is the second time this happened, such a start, and the outcome is bad for us. We came out with small ball to cause some problems; we paid a price. Sometimes we were able to come back. We brought the game to a 4-point difference, but against Zvezda had the momentum and obviously the 19 turnovers, which a lot of them they forced, but a lot of them were exactly what we expected and we did not follow the plan how we wanted to and how we practiced. Overall it was a bad loss. But we got a good lesson starting from me and going to the players.
