Khimki — CSKA, 29 December 2015
The game is over
Moscow
29 December 2015 Tuesday /
20:00 MSK
CSKA
29.12.2015
In amazing battle in Krylatskoe the luck turned to Khimki who won by mid-range shot with 1 second to go…
In amazing battle in Krylatskoe the luck turned to Khimki who won by mid-range shot with 1 second to go.
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Khimki (Moscow region) vs. CSKA: 91-89 (-2)
Khimki: Rice (22 + 4 rb + 5 as + 3 st + 3 to), Shved (28 + 5 as + 3 st + 4 pf), Dragic (7 + 3 rb), Augustine (12 + 4 rb), Koponen (7 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Sokolov (2 + 4 rb + 5 pf), Monya (5 + 4 rb + 5 pf), Honeycutt (4 + 3 rb), Davis (4)…
CSKA: De Colo (20 + 3 rb + 6 as + 3 to + 4 pf), Teodosic (18 + 4 rb + 7 as + 3 to), Fridzon (9 + 4 rb), Nichols (5), Korobkov (2 + 4 rb), Freeland (8), Higgins (16 + 4 to), Kurbanov (5 + 5 rb), Hines (6 + 4 pf)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Congratulations to Khimki and coach Rimas Kurtinaitis. We played two different halves. We dominated in the most part of the first. And in the second we were not on our level, especially defensively. We did not manage to defend against first and secondary transitions where Khimki scored 40 points and individual isolations. 50 points allowed after break is a bad result. As I said, Top 16 is a marathon, we have 13 games ahead of us and we have to find out immediately what we did wrong. For example, we started the third quarter with our shot blocked and several turnovers, we opened the court for our opponents. Besides, the luck was on their side, the game was decided by one shot. Still we will work on mistakes and we will become stronger.
