Bisons — CSKA, 17 January 2016

Without two main playmakers and pair of centers our team let Bisons to keep hopes for three quarters and ran away in the game’s finale.

Bisons (Loimaa) vs. CSKA: 82-98 (+16)

Bisons: Zeno (18 + 3 rb + 4 as + 3 to), Hill (10 + 4 rb), Seppala (8), Ojala (10 + 5 rb), Kotti (4 + 7 rb + 5 pf), Coleman (12 + 9 rb + 4 as), Koivisto (9 + 5 pf), Burtschi (5 rb), Udanoh (11 + 3 rb + 5 pf)…

CSKA: D.Kulagin (4 + 4 as), Fridzon (26 + 3 rb), Nichols (3 + 4 pf), Jackson (11 + 11 as), Lazarev (4), Vorontsevich (5 + 4 pf), Higgins (17 + 3 rb), Khryapa (1), Kurbanov (9 + 7 rb), Hines (18 + 8 rb + 4 pf)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

All our life is a fight, if you don’t fight, if you don’t show your best qualities, somebody will step over you. With all respect to Bisons who also missed important players, we demonstrated absolutely different attitude in both halves, especially on defense. After halftime we started to fight, hustle, rebound and allowed just 32 points – this is what we want. I understand that after you beat strong opponent like Barcelona it is difficult sometimes to find motivation for the next game. Still I congratulate my team with another victory.