CSKA
The game is over
Moscow
16 October 2020 Friday / 20:00 MSK
Megasport Sport Palace
CSKA
88
93
Oct. 16 (Fri):
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Oct. 17 (Sat):
1:35: Match! Game
4:00: Match TV
16.10.2020
Our team lacked energy to finish the second game in three days well. ALBA won…
Too much heroics for one week
Our team lacked energy to finish the second game in three days well. ALBA won.

CSKA vs. ALBA Berlin: 88-93 (-5)


CSKA: Bolomboy (5 + 5 rb + 4 bs), Hilliard (8 + 2 as), Hackett (3 + 2 st + 4 pf), Shengelia (9 + 7 rb + 2 as + 3 to), Kurbanov (5 + 3 rb + 3 to) – start; Khomenko (DNP), James (27 + 3 rb + 6 as + 5 to), Ukhov (0), Voigtmann (2 + 4 rb), Clyburn (25 + 4 rb + 3 to + 4 pf), Umrikhin (DNP), Milutinov (4)…

ALBA: Siva (12 + 4 as + 2 st), Eriksson (13 + 3 st), Fontecchio (20 + 3 rb), Sikma (11 + 9 rb + 5 as + 3 to + 4 pf), Lammers (4 + 3 rb + 2 bs) – start; Lo (15 + 3 rb + 2 as), Giffey (9 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Mattisseck (DNP), Schneider (0), Olinde (2), Granger (7 + 5 as)…




Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Congratulations to ALBA for the win. Unfortunately it was a very bad night for us. Even though in the first half we shot the ball with the best percentages so far – 75% for threes and 64% for twos – I went into the locker room telling my players that was not the way to perform because they already had 8 offensive boards and we turned over the ball 8 times. Unfortunately I was proven right. In the second half, we started by shooting 0 of 9 for three and we turned over the ball 11 more times, and we gave them 14 more possessions than we had. I take all the blame for this performance but everybody needs to think seriously about how to communicate better and be more concentrated. We didn’t match their energy, we didn’t match their enthusiasm. We have not fought enough, and we paid the price.

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