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CSKA vs. Olympiacos Piraeus: 80-61 (+19)

CSKA: Hilliard (7 + 2 st), Hackett (8 + 2 as), Shengelia (10), Milutinov (4 + 8 rb), Kurbanov (8 + 4 rb) – start; Bolomboy (8 + 5 rb + 2 as), Khomenko (0), James (16 + 7 rb + 7 as + 4 st + 3 to), Ukhov (6), Antonov (5), Voigtmann (6 + 4 rb + 2 as), Clyburn (2 + 3 rb + 3 to)…

Olympiacos: Spanoulis (5 + 4 rb + 7 as + 3 to), Sloukas (5 + 3 rb + 4 as + 5 to), Martin (10 + 3 rb + 5 pf), Papanikolaou (6 + 4 rb), Jean-Charles (9 + 5 rb + 2 st) – start; Charalampopoulos (DNP), Larentzakis (2), Vezenkov (2), Printezis (10), Jenkins (3), Ellis (2 + 2 bs), McKissic (7 + 4 rb + 4 as)…

We were a better team tonight, so I have to congratulate my players; they were really focused, decisive and determined, especially on defense. For the first five minutes they scored 17 points, and we drastically changed our energy and our mindset on the defensive end. From that point on, they scored 12 in the next 15 minutes, and 9 in the third quarter, which makes it 21 points in 25 minutes. I think our defense today was the key. We managed to keep them low and bring the game to the end smoothly.