AEK Athens vs. CSKA: 78-69 (-9)
AEK: Elonu (8 + 4 rb + 2 bs), James (7 + 4 to), Xanthopoulos (6 + 3 st), Sakota (14 + 4 rb), Atic (3 + 3 rb + 2 bs + 3 to), Agravanis (2), Barlow (1 + 4 rb + 4 as + 5 pf), Tsalmpouris (8 + 3 rb + 2 bs), Moraitis (5), Mavroeidis (13 + 6 rb), Larentzakis (11 + 4 as + 3 to + 4 pf)…
CSKA: Gavrilov (1), Katsivelis (10 + 5 to), Astapkovich (8 + 3 rb), Korobkov (1), Clyburn (13 + 6 rb + 3 st), Higgins (15 + 5 rb + 4 st), Khryapa (5 rb), Hines (13 + 5 rb + 4 pf), Hunter (8 + 8 rb)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
That was another preseason game where we tried to see different things in our game. Definitely I was not satisfied the way we behave during the game, first of all regarding our approach, I was not happy with our young guys performance. Of course, we miss our guards, our creators and we are waiting for them to return. We don’t have a priority to win in this preseason games but we still try to win and we have to be ready to compete. We switched on in the end, made a run but it was too late. We also suffered from missing free throws giving up 12 easy points. I would like also to congratulate Russian National Team on qualifying to semifinals and I wish them good luck in the rest of the tournament.
