Krasniy Oktyabr — CSKA, 09 March 2015

Our team has to play without Kirilenko and Vorontsevich and let Krasniy Octyabr win the debut but not the whole game.

Krasniy Oktyabr (Volgograd) vs. CSKA: 88-101 (+13)

Krasniy Oktyabr: Gerasimenko (1), McGrath (5 + 3 to), Komissarov (9 + 4 pf), Deane (12 + 6 rb + 10 as + 5 pf), Victor (16 + 7 rb + 4 as + 4 st), Hamilton (13 + 4 rb + 4 pf), Culpepper (29), Liholitov (3 + 4 rb)…

CSKA: De Colo (33 + 6 rb + 5 as + 3 to), Teodosic (3 + 8 as), Fridzon (3), Nichols (6 + 3 rb), Jackson (4), Korobkov (10 + 8 rb), Weems (15 + 8 rb + 8 as + 3 to), Zozulin (2), Kaun (8 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Khryapa (8 + 5 rb), Hines (9)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

We had very bad start. We let the opponent play their game but as I said before we knew that they have many offensive talents and can score a lot of points. And they demonstrated that in the opening quarter when they had 27 points. We made some defensive changes in the second quarter and especially in the third. We made some stops and what more importantly we limited the turnovers because with all dew respect to Red October our 7 turnovers in the first quarter were not the product of their aggressive defense. It was our sloppy game. Nando got hot we got lucky with that, Sonny made some shots that we needed. And we kept playing defense. That’s what led us to win.