Russian League playoffs, Semifinals Game 1: April 27- May 3, 2012 - Russia

June 20, 2013

Russian League playoffs, Semifinals Game 1: April 27- May 3, 2012

CSKA Moscow opened the Russian League playoffs with a 94-87 victory over Lokomotiv Kuban in Game 1 of the best-of-three semifinals series. Lokomotiv hosts Game 2 on Sunday. CSKA pulled away midway through the second quarter, took its first double-digit lead on a Milos Teodosic triple that made it 43-31, and led by as much as 1y before Maxim Sheleketo put 53-39 on the scoreboard at halftime. An 8-0 third quarter run capped by Nenad Krstic put the hosts up 21. Lokomotiv made a late charge led by Sergey Bykov and a Michael Ignerski three-pointer made it 92-87 with 29 seconds remaining, but CSKA managed to kill the clock and an Alexey Shved bucket sealed the win. Shved led the CSKA attack with 13 points, Teodosic added 11 points and 6 assists, centers Krstic and Sasha Kaun each scored 11. KC Rivers led Loko with 24 points and Ali Traore and Bykov netted 12 apiece

Record	Team	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
1	CSKA Moscow (1)	94	April 29	*May 6
0	Lokomotiv Kuban (4)	87	-	-
0	BC Khimki (2)	May 3	May 5	*May 7
0	Triumph (3)	-	-	-

Semifinals Playoffs round games
Game 1	CSKA Moscow vs. Lokomotiv Kuban	94-87	April 27
Game 1	BC Khimki vs. Triumph	0-0	May 3
Game 2	Lokomotiv Kuban vs. CSKA Moscow	0-0	April 29
Game 2	Triumph vs. BC Khimki	0-0	May 5
Game 3	CSKA Moscow vs. Lokomotiv Kuban	0-0	*May 6
Game 3	BC Khimki vs. Triumph	0-0	*May 7