CSKA
The game is over
Moscow
15 January 2021 Friday / 20:00 MSK
Megasport Sport Palace
CSKA
75
88
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15.01.2021
Extra day of rest favored Barcelona. Our team played well for just one quarter and a half, after that the visitors were better in quickness and accuracy of shots...
Still on top

CSKA vs. Barcelona: 75-88 (-13)

CSKA: James (18 + 4 rb + 4 as), Hilliard (10 + 9 rb + 3 as), Shengelia (10 + 7 rb + 2 as + 3 to), Milutinov (15 + 6 rb), Kurbanov (4) – start; Bolomboy (7), Khomenko (0), Ukhov (DNP), Antonov (2), Strelnieks (4 + 4 as), Voigtmann (5 + 7 rb), Shashkov (DNP)…
Barcelona: Smits (4 + 4 rb), Pustovyi (2), Abrines (19), Higgins (25 + 6 rb + 2 as), Calathes (13 + 6 rb + 7 as + 4 pf) – start; Westermann (0), Hanga (7), Bolmaro (3), Badji (0), Oriola (4 + 6 rb + 2 as + 3 to + 4 pf), Martinez (6 + 5 rb + 4 pf), Kuric (5)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Congratulations to Barcelona and my friend Saras. They deserved to win. Until we had strength and we were, if I use the word, fresh, we were dominant and played good basketball. We opened the game very well but the fatigue today was obviously not on our side. It pretty much went this way with the momentum with 4:26 to go, if I am not mistaken, +12, then the run was 3-16 with turnover, turnover, basket and basket, turnover... So we turned over the ball three times consecutively and even though in the first half, you can see the numbers. We didn't have that many turnovers, and it cost us because each and every turnover, if you count that you don't have execution, you don't score and they score, this is a double point. You don't score, they score, this is minus 4. It happened consecutively three times and we accumulated all turnovers over there and instead of going to the halftime with a normal difference for us, we went in minus 1. We gave a fight, had a better ranking (PIR) than them, less turnovers, more assists and more rebounds but overall, the 4-for-21 shots from the perimeter is not our numbers.

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