CSKA — Pari NN, 22 January 2018

Our team celebrated Westermann’s comeback after injury with the victory over Nizhny Novgorod.

CSKA vs. Nizhniy Novgorod: 97-80 (+17)

CSKA: Westermann (9), Antonov (2), Rodriguez (9 + 4 as + 3 st), Vorontsevich (17), Clyburn (10 + 5 rb + 2 bs), Higgins (6), Kulagin (9), Khryapa (6 + 4 rb + 4 as + 3 to), Kurbanov (10 + 8 rb + 3 st + 4 to), Hines (11 + 3 rb), Hunter (6), Makiev (2 + 3 rb)…

Nizhniy Novgorod: Martynov (8 + 6 as), Komolov (5), Veremeyenko (14 + 10 rb + 4 as + 5 pf), Jelovac (2), Gbanov (3), Uzinskiy (13 + 3 rb + 5 pf), Gubanov (22 + 5 rb), Strebkov (3 + 4 rb + 5 to + 4 pf), Odum (3 + 3 rb + 7 to), Zakharov (7 + 3 rb)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

We played seriously most part of the game so congratulations to the team. We were able to share time and Nando was not on the roster at all. Leo is back after almost 3 months out with unfortunate injury, and this is a big win for us. Regarding the game, we came into third quarter determined to play defense. We were smart, read mismatches and went up by 23. Overall the game went, I would say, smooth, though we had talented opponent that plays with desire. As for Fridzon, he had high temperature last couple of days and our doctors reccomended him to stay home and do all necessary treatment. Hopefully he will be back to practices tomorrow.