Pari NN — CSKA, 21 December 2014

After almost three months of the regular season our team finally took the lead in VTB League by taking it away from Nizhny Novgorod in face-to-face clash.

N Novgorod vs. CSKA: 59-84 (+25)

N Novgorod: Baburin (1 + 4 rb), Viktorov (4), Parakhovskiy (6 + 9 rb + 2 bs), Antonov (4), Patsatsia (3 rb), Hvostov (8), Kinsey (11 + 3 st), Savelyev (4), Krivosheyev (4 pf), Tompkins (15 + 9 rb + 4 pf), Golovin (6)…

CSKA: De Colo (13 + 5 pf), Fridzon (9 + 3 rb), Nichols (4 + 4 rb), Jackson (10 + 5 rb + 5 as), Markoishvili (10 + 3 rb), Korobkov (4), Weems (11 + 5 rb + 6 to), Vorontsevich (11 + 5 rb), Kaun (8 + 3 rb + 3 bs), Hines (4)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

Congratulations to the team, the guys showed good effort and deserved to win. We controlled the game most of the time. In the second half we found solutions defensively and offensively, we stopped turning the ball over. We managed to defeat great opponent. I have to sat good words about Nizhny Novgorod: they demonstrate continuity of what they’ve done in previous seasons. Many teams had problems on this court. But we have to analyze what we did during practices and video sessions to improve. Now I can say that a big number of turnovers can be explained with good pressure defense by the opponents and our mistakes in spacing and choosing who takes care of the ball. I would like also to thank our fans who came to Nizhny in big numbers and showed their expectations. They really helped us from minute one.