CSKA vs. Tsmoki Minsk: 119-88 (+31)
CSKA: De Colo (15 + 4 as), Peters (11 + 4 rb + 2 as + 5 pf), Kulagin (15 + 5 as + 3 st), Kurbanov (10 + 5 rb + 4 as + 2 st), Hunter (13 + 6 rb) – start; Ukhov (6 + 4 rb), Antonov (9 + 4 rb), Vorontsevich (12 + 2 st), Clyburn (2), Higgins (4), Hackett (15 + 4 as + 3 to), Lopatin (7)…
Tsmoki Minsk: Lyutych (15 + 4 rb + 2 as + 4 to), Sarikopoulos (4), Kudryavtsev (10 + 3 as + 5 pf), Moody (13 + 3 rb + 4 as + 3 to + 4 pf), Poleshchyuk (3) – start; Saddler (7 + 3 as + 3 to), Trostinetskiy (7 + 2 as), Meshcheryakov (3 + 4 pf), Vabishchevich (DNP), Semenyuk (9), Shelton (17 + 4 rb + 2 as + 3 to)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
I would like to congratulate my team. We were looking to save some energy in the beginning, especially on defensive end. With all the respect to our opponents our level of defense was not there in the first half. We talked in the locker room and picked up our level in the third quarter. 39-15 show that we outrun them, we had good performance and defensive effort. We manage to share the time, don’t forget that it was back-to-back game for us. We did not practice before it, we just played. We have to think that we will have the situations like that, we have double week in EuroLeague now with Zalgiris and Buducnost. Congratulations to the players for their professionalism and thank you for good attendance that we had, two and a half thousands that came to applause and help the team.
