Hot and cold
12.09.2018
Our team beat AS Monaco to start the Gloria Cup…
Our team beat AS Monaco to start the Gloria Cup.
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
CSKA vs. Monaco: 69-58 (+11)
CSKA: Peters (19 + 8 rb), Higgins (16 + 5 as), Hackett (3 + 3 rb + 7 as), Lopatin (2 + 4 rb), Hunter (14) – start; Bolomboy (7 + 5 rb + 2 st + 4 to), Khomenko (0), Vostrikov (2), Maleyko (2 + 2 st), Gavrilov (0), Tonoyan (0), Hines (4 + 3 rb)…
Monaco: Barry (5), Jones (9 + 8 rb), Robinson (9 + 4 to), Ouattara (8 + 2 as) – start; Sy (3 rb), Cham (3), Kikanovic (DNP), Joseph (5 pf), Loubaki (9 + 2 st + 5 pf), Hummer (15 + 3 rb)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Obviously we played three quarters with much better intensity than the lost one, which we lost by 10 points. It’s only a preseason, considering that we also had a practice in the morning. Overall picture was not bad and it shows us that we are just in the beginning. We need to work on our conditioning, on execution. Defensively we were much better in the first half. In the second half we played not so much of good defense, we turned over the ball, missed open looks, shot 5 out of 12 three-pointers in the first half and 1 out of 12 since then. But that’s not a big deal right now, the shots were good, they were created, we got open looks. We also tried to give time on the floor to everybody.
