Astana Nur-Sultan vs. CSKA: 72-95 (+23)
Astana: Florence (5 + 4 to), Holt (8 + 4 rb), Ristic (18 + 7 rb + 3 as), Zhigulin (6 + 4 rb + 2 as + 4 pf), Hill (16 + 3 rb + 2 as) – start; Hill (8 + 4 rb + 8 as + 4 pf), Bazhin (DNP), Shcherbak (0), Murzagaliev (3), Gavrilov (4 + 4 pf), Marchuk (DNP), Crockett (4 + 8 rb)…
CSKA: Voigtmann (10 + 4 rb + 5 as), Hackett (12 + 3 st), Koufos (18 + 6 rb + 3 as + 4 pf), Hilliard (6), Kurbanov (4 + 5 rb) – start; Bolomboy (2 + 7 rb), James (27 + 5 as), Ukhov (2 as), Antonov (10 + 7 rb + 2 bs), Strelnieks (3 + 4 as), Lopatin (0), Kulagin (3)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Congrats to our team. We played serious, we were better team tonight and we deserbed to win. We were consistent. Every game is a tough challenge no matter how it looks from the stands. We didn’t commit a lot of turnovers, but three-point percentage was quite low. Astana was more active in the beginning, rebounding better. We levelled things in the second quarter and allowed only 8 points taking control of the game.
