Brose Bamberg — CSKA, 24 March 2016

Brose Baskets managed to beat our team in its 12th try after hard-fought game in Germany. Aaron Jackson promised during the press-conference that the team will hit first from now on, that we are going to be the bad guys.

Brose Baskets Bamberg vs. CSKA: 91-83 (-8)

Brose Baskets: Melli (17 + 6 rb), Zisis (14 + 4 rb + 6 as), Nikolic (5), Theis (3 + 8 rb + 4 pf), Wanamaker (11 + 3 rb + 6 as + 4 to + 4 pf), Strelnieks (10 + 3 rb + 6 as), Harris (8), Miller (9 + 4 pf), Radosevic (14)…

CSKA: De Colo (21 + 7 as), Teodosic (19), Jackson (4), Korobkov (2 + 3 rb), Vorontsevich (17 + 4 rb + 5 pf), Higgins (4 + 3 to), Kurbanov (7 + 6 rb + 5 pf), Hines (9 + 4 rb + 4 pf)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

Aaron just said pretty much everything. This is what we talked about in the locker room. Congratulations to Brose Baskets. They were better today in their approach to the game, they played physical, aggressive on both ends. They made 65% of their two-pointers and they pushed us out of the basket. When I say that I mean that we did not attack the paint as active as we should and we lacked creativity on offense because of that – when you drive, you are not only scoring, but you create space for your shooters. We had just 9 two-pointers in the first half, we tried to change it in the second, but it was not enough. Everything is still in our hands in our competitive group. And we will play on the required level.