Better in shoot-out

Astana felt comfortable shooting into Moscow baskets but our team still scored more.

CSKA vs. Astana Nur-Sultan: 104-91 (+13)

CSKA: Bolomboy (8 + 5 rb), Strelnieks (5 + 4 as), Vorontsevich (0), Hackett (5), Kurbanov (6 + 4 rb + 7 as) – start; James (23 + 5 as), Ukhov (7 + 4 rb + 2 as), Antonov (16 + 3 rb), Voigtmann (16 + 4 rb + 2 as + 2 st), Lopatin (3), Koufos (11 + 4 rb), Hines (4 + 3 rb)…

Astana: J. Hill (7 + 3 rb + 8 as + 2 st + 3 to + 4 pf), Shcherbak (14), Ristic (22 + 10 rb + 4 as), Zhigulin (7 + 2 as), M. Hill (28 + 4 rb + 5 to) – start; Clarke (9 + 4 rb + 2 as + 3 to), Pan (2), Bazhin (DNP), Murzagaliev (0), Litvinenko (DNP), Gavrilov (DNP), Marchuk (2)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

We played good today, congratulations to the team. I had a goal of sharing time on the floor because we have three games to play next week.