Olympiacos — CSKA, 20 December 2017

Olympiacos Piraeus vs. CSKA: 88-86 (-2)

Olympiacos: McLean (25 + 12 rb + 3 to + 4 pf), Papapetrou (8 + 3 rb), Spanoulis (16 + 4 rb + 8 as + 3 to), Strelnieks (10), Papanikolaou (15 + 6 rb + 5 pf), Mantzaris (4 pf), Wiltjer (8 + 5 rb), Thompson (6 + 6 rb)…

CSKA: De Colo (18 + 3 rb + 5 pf), Antonov (7 + 4 rb), Korobkov (2), Rodriguez (23 + 4 rb + 3 to), Clyburn (13 + 10 rb), Higgins (8 + 5 pf), Kurbanov (4 + 3 st), Hines (11 + 8 rb + 4 pf)…

Congratulations to Olympiacos. They won the game. They believed more in the game. They were very active in the boards. Of course the game was close; we had our leads, they had their leads. And it was decided by a lot of details for sure. One detail was the offensive boards and the sequence over there with like 6 offensive boards and second chances. Four offensive boards, 3 offensive boards. It gave them a lot of confidence in getting the ball and setting up another play and this hurts, a lot. The other part was that their key and clutch players went to their good side and defensively we did not contain that. We will become better at that.