Despite missing two stars, CSKA Moscow rose up to win a thriller, 96-100, on the court of defending champion Anadolu Efes Istanbul to claim its first victory of the new season on Friday. CSKA evened its record at 1-1 while Efes fell to 0-2.
CSKA takes down Efes in thriller, 96-100
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The visitors led by a high of 16 points late in the third quarter but had to withstand a furious late rally by Efes to take the victory back to Moscow. Toko Shengelia had 23 points and Will Clyburn added 18 while Johannes Voigtmann and Iffe Lundberg sored 17 each for the winners. Efes wasted a 32-point show on 7-for-11 three-point shooting from Vasilije Micic while Adrien Moerman added 14 and Shane Larkin 12 for the hosts. CSKA lost big man Nikola Milutinov to injury in Round 1 and traveled without major off-season acquision Marius Grigonis to Istanbul, while Efes was without Krunoslav Simon.
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Shengelia strung an open triple and Micic downed a layup to start the scoring. Voigtmann took over from there with 6 points as CSKA went up 8-13. Petrusev and Shengelia exchanged inpressive dunks before Micic hit the home team's first three-pointer for a 15-15 tie. Voigtmann returned from deep as CSKA stayed up and fed Shengelia for a fastbreak dunk for the biggest lead yet. Shengelia's free throws made it an 0-11 run and a 15-26 CSKA lead, but Micic answered with a four-point play to which Adrien Moerman added free throws as Efes cut the difference to 21-26 after 10 minutes.
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Shengelia opened the second-half scoring, too. Micic and Voigtmann drilled triples, but the CSKA big man repeated his and Iffe Lundberg downed 2 layups to complete a 2-12 run to 51-65. Micic went deep again to get Efes closer at 57-69 but his fourth foul and a technical on home coach Ergin Ataman resulted in a 57-72 CSKA lead. Tibor Pleiss and Larkin, with his first field goal after 7 misses, tried to revive Efes, but Alexey Shved heated up for CSKA to lead 68-79 after 30 minutes.
Larkin fed Pleiss for a dunk to lower the difference to single digits as the fourth quarter began, but Lundberg kept CSKA safe with a triple at 74-86. Micic answered from deep and Shengelia matched him as Lundberg hit another to make it 77-92. Beaubois did the same and soon Micic joined him, but CSKA seemed well in charge at 85-94 with little more than 2 minutes left. Moerman quickly converted a three-point play and Micic dunked to suddenly make it 90-94 with 1:28 to play, prompting a CSKA timeout. Clyburn hit 1 of 2 free throws after drawing Micic's fifth foul before Moerman buried another triple at 93-95 with 52 seconds left. Shengelia was even more timely with his put-back dunk with 35 seconds left, but Moerman's free throws with 18.2 left kept it a one-possession game, 95-97. Shengelia's free throws with 8 seconds left settled the matter for CSKA.
