By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
CSKA beat Unics in Kazan 91-105 and improved its VTB League record to 12–1, while the hosts fell to 10–3.
For the winners, Nando De Colo scored 17 points and handed 11 assists, James Augustine had 16, Aaron Jackson finished the game with 14, Dmitry Kulagin and Andrey Vorontsevich added 13 each, while Milos Teodosic didn’t take part in the game.
For Unics, Keith Langford dropped 25, Orlando Johnson had 18, Artsiom Parakhouski 16 and Coty Clarke 11.
Unics began the game with Orlando Johnson giving pace, while CSKA followed closely in the score. After 10 minutes, and with a buzzer beater by Johnson, the score was 26–30.
Dimitris Itoudis’ win could grab a 10–point lead late in the second period, then the teams went to the lockers with the visitors being up 50–58.
With a shot by Augustine, CSKA grabbed its biggest lead in the game with 13 points midway through the period and even managed to keep the upper hand in double digits after 30 minutes, 68–78.
In the final period, the hosts approached to 4 points with a shot by Langford, though as it turned out, 2 layups by De Colo and a long distance shot by Khryapa kept the opposing team safe at 36′.
In yesterday’s games, Zenit dropped 69 in 20 minutes, while Lokomotiv and Zenit got easy wins.