Crvena Zvezda — CSKA, 29 December 2016

Our team let the opponents to run away again and could not save the game. Crvena Zvezda came away with first ever victory against CSKA.

Crvena Zvezda Belgrad vs. CSKA Moscow: 78-67 (-11)

Crvena Zvezda: Wolters (9), Dangubic (7), Mitrovic (2), Lazic (2), Simonovic (14 + 3 rb), Jenkins (11 + 3 rb + 6 as + 6 st), Guduric (9 + 3 rb + 3 to), Jovic (6 + 5 rb + 3 to + 4 pf), Kuzmic (16 + 10 rb + 2 bs), Bjelica (2)…

CSKA: De Colo (6), Teodosic (6 + 4 as + 6 to), Augustine (3 + 6 rb), Fridzon (2), Jackson (10 + 4 rb + 8 as + 5 to), Antonov (2 + 4 pf), Vorontsevich (21), Kurbanov (8 + 3 rb), Hines (9 + 5 rb + 4 pf)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

First of all I want to say congratulations to Red Star. They deserved to win. Obviously the bad start is what was chasing us like a shadow the whole game. This 13-0 hurt us a lot. This is the second time this happened, such a start, and the outcome is bad for us. We came out with small ball to cause some problems; we paid a price. Sometimes we were able to come back. We brought the game to a 4-point difference, but against Zvezda had the momentum and obviously the 19 turnovers, which a lot of them they forced, but a lot of them were exactly what we expected and we did not follow the plan how we wanted to and how we practiced. Overall it was a bad loss. But we got a good lesson starting from me and going to the players.