2005-06Regular SeasonRound 7
December 14, 2005 CET: 20:15
Local time: 20:15 USH CSKA
The good times continue to roll in Moscow after CSKA won its fifth consecutive Group C game in comfortable fashion on Wednesday, blowing out the guests from Partizan 89-58. CSKA raised its record to 5-2 at the halfway point in the regular season and will be sure to share a piece of second place in the group standings. Partizan fell to 1-6. David Vanterpool led the show at both ends of the floor with 17 points, almost all in the first half, and 6 of CSKA's 26 steals on defense. Theodoros Papaloukas was right behind him with 15 points, 5 steals and 2 blocks, while J.R. Holden completed CSKA's backcourt dominance with 10 points. But it was the defense of CSKA that really ruled as only Nikola Pekovic, with 11 points off the bench, and Predrag Suput , with 10, scored in double digits for the visitors. CSKA held Partizan star Dejan Milojevic to 6 points by limiting him to just 5 shots attempted in his 32 minutes on the floor.

CSKA came out mixing up defenses on Partizan, who could not buy a basket, despite several second chances. For the first 4 minutes, the visitors only scored when Vanterpool registered a monster block in the paint on Kota Perovic that was ruled to be goaltending. In the meantime, Vanterpool's three-point play, a later free throw by him and a pair of Holden jumpers gave the hosts a 10-2 lead and forced Partizan to take a timeout. After that, Predrag Suput nailed a three-pointer to get the guests moving, and soon Loncar's jumper made it 12-7. Still, with Vanterpool in charge at both ends of the floor, CSKA blanked the visitors for awhile more. In the final minute of the quarter, however, Nikola Pekovic hit consecutive layups, the second coming with a free throw with 3 seconds remaining, as Partizan trimmed the CSKA lead to 20-15 after 10 minutes.

CSKA kept up the defensive pressure in the second quarter, with Papaloukas forcing turnovers and Alexey Savrasenko blocking 2 shots and capping off a 7-2 run with a dunk and free throw to put the hosts up 27-17. Milojevic stopped the bleeding for Partizan with a driving laying over Savrasenko, but Papaloukas blocked Bojan Bakic and went in for a fastbreak dunk, forcing Partizan to take another timeout, down 30-19. CSKA took its biggest lead yet, 38-22, on a steal and reverse dunk by Papaloukas with 2:25 left in the half. Luka Bogdanovic drained a three-pointer and Milojevic hit free throws, but CSKA coasted to 40-27 lead at the break.

Behind Pekovic's three-point play and Suput's steal and layup, Partizan cut the CSKA lead to 43-32 with 7:38 to play in the third quarter. But CSKA reacted with a 7-0 run punctuated by a three-point play from Andersen off a fastbreak feed from Holden, good for a 50-32 lead. CSKA tightened up on the defensive glass after giving up 8 offensive boards in the first half, and with Partizan's shooting woes returning, the hosts began to run away with the game, stretching its lead to 56-32 on a Langdon three-pointer from the right corner. Despite a triple from Bogdanovic, Partizan could muster little resistance, and behind Langdon's shooting and Paploukas's third and fourth fastbreak dunks of the game, CSKA closed out the third quarter with a 73-40 lead.

With the game all but decided already, Partizan played loose on offense to start the final quarter, with Loncar draining two three-pointers to cut the CSKA lead to 81-50 with 6 minutes to play. But the home fans were treated to a rare sight as Zakhar Pashutin — hardly known for his above-the-rim exploits — soared in for a one-handed dunk and youngster Vasily Zavoruyev hit a three-pointer. The last few minutes were simply a matter of technique for CSKA, as coach Ettore Messina cleared his bench and the hosts wrapped up an 89-58 victory.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Carl Schreck, Moscow
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Referees: MITJANA, JUAN CARLOS; ZAMOJSKI, JAKUB; PEREZ, MIGUEL ANGEL; DAVYDOV, MIKHAIL
Attendance: 0
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CSKA Moscow
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 PAPALOUKAS, THEODOROS 18:00 15 6/6 0/1 3/6       2 5 1 2   2 5 22
5 KURBANOV, NIKITA 16:30 5 1/2   3/4   5 5 1 2 3 1 1 4 2 6
6 PANOV, SERGEY 16:30 3 1/1 0/1 1/2 1 4 5 3 2       3 2 10
7 ZAVOUREV, VASILY 6:15 3   1/2 0/2           2   1   2 -1
8 SMODIS, MATJAZ 12:45 6 1/1 1/1 1/2       1 1 1   1 5 2 2
9 VANTERPOOL, DAVID 28:45 17 6/11   5/9 1 2 3 2 6 2   1   7 23
10 HOLDEN, JR 20:00 10 5/5 0/4         2 1       1 1 9
11 PASHUTIN, ZAKHAR 13:45 6 2/2 0/1 2/2 1 1 2 1 2       3 2 9
13 ANDERSEN, DAVID 24:00 6 1/3   4/5 1 8 9 1       1 3 4 13
14 SAVRASENKO, ALEKSEY 17:15 9 3/5   3/3 1 3 4 2 2 2 3   1 2 17
15 KASHIROV, ANATOLY 4:15   0/1               1         -2
21 LANGDON, TRAJAN 22:00 9 0/3 2/4 3/5   3 3 1 2         2 10
Team           2 1 3   3 1         5
Totals 200:00 89 26/40 4/14 25/40 7 27 34 16 26 13 6 5 22 31 123
        65% 28.6% 62.5%
Head coach: MESSINA, ETTORE
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
Partizan
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
5 BOGDANOVIC, LUKA 26:00 9 0/3 3/6   1 3 4     1 1   5   2
6 LONCAR, NIKOLA 26:30 8 1/5 2/8         1 1 3 1 1 4   -7
7 PEROVIC, KOSTA 16:30 6 2/6   2/2 1 2 3   1 2 1 1   2 6
8 SUPUT, PREDRAG 19:00 10 3/6 1/4 1/2 2 4 6 1 1 5     1 2 7
9 STEFANOVIC, NENAD 5:15 2 1/1 0/1         1         1   1
10 BOROVNJAK, DEJAN 1:15       0/2           2     2 1 -5
11 BAKIC, BORIS 12:45     0/1             2   2 5 2 -8
12 VELICKOVIC, NOVICA 7:30 1 0/1   1/3   1 1   1 1     1 2  
13 MILOJEVIC, DEJAN 32:30 6 2/4 0/1 2/2 3 5 8 2   5     3 7 12
14 PEKOVIC, NIKOLA 25:30 11 4/7   3/4 4 5 9 2   1 2 1 4 4 18
23 DRAGICEVIC, STRAHINJA 0:15                              
32 BROWN, GERALD 27:00 5 0/2 1/4 2/2 1   1 1 2 4   1 5 2 -4
Team           3 2 5   7           12
Totals 200:00 58 13/35 7/25 11/17 15 22 37 8 13 26 5 6 31 22 34
        37.1% 28% 64.7%
Head coach: VUJOSEVIC, DUSKO
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Head Coaches

MESSINA, ETTORE
CSKA Moscow
"I think we made the game easy for ourselves with a very good approach in the first minutes. One of the main reasons for our success was great play by Panov, who actually 'cancelled' Partizan leader Dejan Milojevic. My players worked well together. Even though playing with few mistakes, they sometimes made our fans go crazy with some fastbreaks and dunks. We finished the first part of the Euroleague regular season with a 5-2 record. But remember, after the first two games you weren’t sure that we'd manage to do this. We will have a very hard January. For example, we'll meet Panathinaikos at home. But the team continues to grow up. I'm glad to notice the progress of two players – Papaloukas and Vanterpool. It was tough for Theo to find his game after Eurobasket, but right now he is becoming the same person he was in previous seasons. And David is close to the player he was at Montepaschi. It wasn't easy for him after such a serious injury."
VUJOSEVIC, DUSKO
Partizan
"CSKA completely deserved this win and they deserved to win with such an advantage. The Army club is twenty times stronger than Partizan. CSKA played with real energy and desire. And I can't say that about my guys. I want to congratulate Moscow club players; they were great on both the defensive and offensive ends. We simply couldn't stop CSKA's fastbreaks."

Players

HOLDEN, JR
CSKA Moscow
"Coach told us at halftime that we had to do a better job boxing out and get out and run, because they're a team that likes to slow it down. We did a good job of coming out aggressive, and we knew if we kept up the aggressiveness, we could pull away and win. Our team is coming together well. The good thing about this team is that we have a lot of players who can contribute. We have a lot of guys who can pitch in 10 to 15 points a a game, and that balance is nice."
BROWN, GERALD
Partizan
"Our turnovers in the third quarter killed us. They're a good team, and they really made us pay for the turnovers. Because of the turnovers we didn't get very many attempts at the basket, and when we did get our looks, we weren't hitting the shots."
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