CSKA — Khimki, 08 June 2017

Our team took the Game 1 of the VTB League Finals against Khimki by creating the gap in first three quarters.

CSKA vs. Khimki Moscow region: 94-88 (+6)

CSKA: De Colo (21), Teodosic (7 + 5 as), Augustine (6 + 4 rb), Fridzon (4), Jackson (9 + 3 rb + 4 as), Antonov (16 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Vorontsevich (7 rb), Higgins (10 + 3 to + 4 pf), Khryapa (1), Kurbanov (4 + 9 rb), Hines (16 + 5 rb)…

Khimki: Shved (18 + 5 to), Hummel (9 + 6 rb), Zaytsev (15 + 5 rb + 6 as), Vyaltsev (8 + 3 rb), Sokolov (6 + 3 rb + 2 bs + 4 pf), Il’nitskiy (3), Monya (4 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Lihodey (10), Todorovic (3 rb), Rowland (15 + 5 as)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

Congratulations to the team, we are up 1-0 and we approach the series game by game. We dominated for majority of the game, we played serious. Still this is the series and we need to rest the players. We shot poorly but that’s Finals. We will watch the film tomorrow and make conclusions. Khimki has quality, they will try to make adjustments and we have to be ready, to react to what may happen. Besides we understand that we can improve. I would like to thank and congratulate the fans, they created amazing atmosphere. Antonov is a new player on our team, he was working hard all season, did not create any problem and he was waiting for his moment. When you do this, your moment will come, if you are trying to catch it, it will run away. I told our players several times that anyone can be an X-factor on given game. Semen was the one tonight.