The game is over
Athens, Greece
13 September 2017 Wednesday / 20:00 MSK
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CSKA
CSKA
13.09.2017
While still missing the National Teams’ players our team lost to AEK Athens in its first friendly game in Greece…
No creators, no happiness
While still missing the National Teams’ players our team lost to AEK Athens in its first friendly game in Greece.

AEK Athens vs. CSKA: 78-69 (-9)


AEK: Elonu (8 + 4 rb + 2 bs), James (7 + 4 to), Xanthopoulos (6 + 3 st), Sakota (14 + 4 rb), Atic (3 + 3 rb + 2 bs + 3 to), Agravanis (2), Barlow (1 + 4 rb + 4 as + 5 pf), Tsalmpouris (8 + 3 rb + 2 bs), Moraitis (5), Mavroeidis (13 + 6 rb), Larentzakis (11 + 4 as + 3 to + 4 pf)…

CSKA: Gavrilov (1), Katsivelis (10 + 5 to), Astapkovich (8 + 3 rb), Korobkov (1), Clyburn (13 + 6 rb + 3 st), Higgins (15 + 5 rb + 4 st), Khryapa (5 rb), Hines (13 + 5 rb + 4 pf), Hunter (8 + 8 rb)…



Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
That was another preseason game where we tried to see different things in our game. Definitely I was not satisfied the way we behave during the game, first of all regarding our approach, I was not happy with our young guys performance. Of course, we miss our guards, our creators and we are waiting for them to return. We don’t have a priority to win in this preseason games but we still try to win and we have to be ready to compete. We switched on in the end, made a run but it was too late. We also suffered from missing free throws giving up 12 easy points. I would like also to congratulate Russian National Team on qualifying to semifinals and I wish them good luck in the rest of the tournament.

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