May 25, 2013
Regular Season Game 8 - December 13, 2006 CET: 18:15 Local time: 20:15 - UNIVERSAL SPORTS HALL CSKA
CSKA Moscow 82 - 72 Eldo Napoli

Records

Ave.   Ave.
0-0 Final Four 0-0
0-0 Playoffs 0-0
0-0 Top 16 0-0
1-0 Regular Season 0-2
6-1 Overall 2-5

Referees

Crew Chief
SPIRIDONOS, LEONIDAS, Greece
Referee
LOVSIN, ANDREJ, Slovenia
Umpire
KLAAR, LARS, Sweden

Team Stats

Ave.   Ave.
76.4 Points 71.9
31.9 Rebounds 32.7
7.1 O. Rebounds 11.6
24.7 D. Rebounds 21.1
14.9 Assists 8.9
11.0 Steals 15.9
2.4 Blocks 2.6
11.6 Turnovers 13.3
54.4 % 2PT 47.4 %
39.6 % 3PT 26.2 %
75.7 % FT 73.0 %
92.9 Index 70.0
Team Stats - CSKA Moscow
Team Stats - Eldo Napoli

Player Stats

Ave.   Ave.
13.6 / LANGDON, TRAJAN Points 14.3 / BROWN, T.
5.6 / LANGDON, TRAJAN Rebounds 7.3 / ROCCA, MASON
1.6 / Andersen OR 3.7 / ROCCA, MASON
5.0 / LANGDON, TRAJAN DR 3.9 / CITTADINI, ALESSANDRO
5.0 / Papaloukas Assists 2.8 / BROWN, T.
1.9 / VANTERPOOL, DAVID Steals 1.9 / CITTADINI, ALESSANDRO
0.6 / Savrasenko Blocks 0.8 / TREPAGNIER, J.
2.6 / Papaloukas Turnovers 2.5 / BROWN, T.
100.0 % / Kurbanov 2PT 67.9 % / CITTADINI, ALESSANDRO
75.0 % / Andersen 3PT 57.1 % / MALAVENTURA,MATTEO
100.0 % / Kurbanov FT 100.0 % / MALAVENTURA,MATTEO
17.3 / LANGDON, TRAJAN Index 14.2 / ROCCA, MASON
Team Roster - CSKA Moscow
Team Roster - Eldo Napoli

THE TAKE

Defending champs CSKA will try to take another step towards an early ticket to the Top 16 from Group C when it welcomes Eldo Napoli on Wednesday to Moscow. CSKA (6-1) is tied for first place in Group C with Winterthur FC Barcelona, while Napoli (2-5) is coming off its biggest win yet, at Benetton in Treviso last week. Tierre Brown (14.3 ppg.) reached an agreement to leave Naples recently, Simone Flamini (3.4 ppg.) and Valerio Spinelli (4.9 ppg.) are now sharing time at the point guard spot. It won't be an easy task for them in Moscow, where they will face one of the best playmakers in the world, Theodoros Papaloukas (11.4 ppg., 5 apg.), who leads CSKA despite not starting. Papaloukas is just the main piece of an already classic CSKA backcourt which also features combo guard J.R. Holden (8.9 ppg.), sharp shooter Trajan Langdon (13.6 ppg., 5.6 rpg.) and do-it-all swingman David Vanterpool (6.9 ppg., 1.9 spg.), who will test his defensive skills against athletic forward Michel Morandais (8 ppg.). Tyrone Ellis (2.3 ppg., 2.7 apg.) has taken over the starting shooting guard spot for Napoli, Jay Larranaga (5.6 ppg.) will come off the bench to provide his unlimited range while defensive ace and steals specialist Jeff Trepagnier (10.7 ppg., 1.3 spg.) will have the mission to shut down Langdon. The battle in the paint will be interesting, even when Matjaz Smodis (14 ppg.) of CSKA may well be a mismatch in this game due to his range and speed. As such, Napoli might try a small lineup with Morandais at power forward just like it did in Treviso, but this is unlikely to happen since Ansu Sesay (7 ppg.m 5.4 rpg.) is back in the lineup and ready to shine against the current Euroleague champion. Mason Rocca (11.3 ppg., 7.3 rpg.) of Napoli will test his rebounding skills against CSKA's twin towers, Aleksey Savrasenko (6.9 ppg.) and Tomas Van Den Spiegel (3.3 ppg.), while Alessandro Cittadini (7 ppg., 5.7 rpg.) will have an interesting matchup against former all-Euroleague center David Andersen (11.3 ppg., 5.3 rpg.). Center Domenico Morena (4.3 ppg.) and guard Matteo Malaventura (7.3 ppg.) may have their chances off the Napoli bench, while Nikita Kourbanov, veteran Zakhar Pashutin and up-and-coming guard Anton Ponkrashov (4.2 ppg., 80% 2FG) may play a crucial role for CSKA, too. Of course, CSKA is the heavy favourite and it already beat Eldo in Game 1, but nobody can take anything for granted against a team that scored a big road win just last week.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Euroleague.net

Quotes Head Coaches

MESSINA, ETTORE
CSKA Moscow
“Eldo Napoli shows a completely different game from what they did in the start of the season. They have better chemistry. They won an important game in Treviso and performed well in the Italian championship. It will be hard to play them even at home. But we are doing well and we won an important game in Istanbul and against Dynamo in the Russian League and we do not want to be out of that track.”
BUCCHI, PIERO
Eldo Napoli
“The match with CSKA Moscow is on paper a one-sided game, but after an important win like the one in Treviso, we've got our confidence back. We're focused on the match and we will follow on our way in Europe, trying to play at our best all the matches and never looking at the table. We know we will play on the court of the defending champions, but we play our game.”

Players

PASHUTIN, ZAKHAR
CSKA Moscow
“Napoli is rather aggressive on the both ends of the court. Especially on defense, they try to put pressure on every opposing team player. They are in a good mood and they are motivated to win in Moscow.”
CITTADINI, ALESSANDRO
Eldo Napoli
“Without a doubt this is the most difficult game of all the rest of our regular season, to play on the court of the Euroleague champions is not easy for anybody. We will play our game, going to Moscow without looking at the table, with our heads clear. We are in control after two consecutive wins in the Euroleague and in the Italian League, and why not, we will try to make an upset – we have nothing to lose.”
Matjaz Smodis - CSKA Moscow Using one of the best starts ever to a Euroleague game, CSKA Moscow thrashed visiting Eldo Napoli 82-72 in Group C on Wednesday. With the victory, CSKA kept at least a share of the Group C lead by improving to 6-1, while Napoli's record dropped to 2-6, good for seventh place. Napoli got plenty of pre-game attention in Moscow by choosing take the metro to the arena in order to avoid traffic jams in the city. The underground ride did not help as CSKA stormed to a 17-0 start and never looked back on the way to victory. Matjaz Smodis led the winners with 18 points. David Vanterpool added 12 and Trajan Langdon 11 for CSKA, which outrebounded Napoli by double, 36-18. Tyrone Ellis had 15 points for Napoli, Michel Morandais 14, Mason Rocca 13 and Ansu Sesay 10.

Langdon opened the scoring with free throws, as Napoli started the game with a small lineup featuring Michel Morandais at power forward. David Vanterpool added a driving layup while Matjaz Smodis buried a three-pointer for a quick 7-0 CSKA lead. Napoli called timeout, but a three-point play by Aleksey Savrasenko gave CSKA its first double digit lead, 10-0. The guests simply struggled at both ends, while Vanterpool scored in the low post and Smodis added a fastbreak layup to make it 14-0. All told, Napoli went scoreless through the opening 7 minutes, while Holden capped a 17-0 CSKA start with another fastbreak basket. Jeff Trepagnier finally stepped up with a driving layup to break the ice for the visitors, but Langdon matched that with a jumper. Holden buried a corner triple to make it a 20-point game, 22-2. Mason Rocca scored inside, but Theo Papaloukas bettered it with a layup-plus-free throw before Trepagnier and Tomas Van den Spiegel fixed the score at 28-7 after one quarter.

Tyrone Ellis - Eldo NapoliCSKA kept rolling early in the second quarter, as David Andersen hit a short jumper. Even when Morandais shined on a three-point play, Andersen scored again for a 32-10 CSKA lead. Papaloukas buried one from downtown and even when Napoli had found its rhythm on offense, its problems persisted at the other end. Rocca scored inside, Morandais nailed a jumper and Tyrone Ellis added one from downtown to get the guests within 37-17. Anton Ponkrashov and Langdon stepped up with back-to-back layups, but a close basket by Trepagnier and free throws by Rocca made CSKA stop the game at 41-21 with a timeout. After that, Zakhar Pashutin fed Smodis for a big dunk while Ansu Sesay found his first points on free throws. Smodis scored in the low post before Pashutin buried back-to-back triples to give CSKA a 51-28 margin. A free throw by Rocca and a three-pointer by Ellis got Napoli within 53-32 at halftime, by wich time CSKA had made 21 of 30 two- and three-point shot attempts.

Napoli returned after the break with an improved attitude, but CSKA kept controlling the game with outstanding defense. Meanwhile, Andersen followed a second-chance basket with a three-pointer to make it a 25-point game, 58-33. Napoli had been scoreless for more than 3 minutes of the third quarter until Morandais hit a fallaway jumper. Vanterpool shined with a driving layup and soon added free throws to give CSKA its biggest lead so far, 62-35. Morandais scored inside then followed a triple by Ellis with free throws to get Napoli within 64-42. Sesay and Trepagnier joined the three-point festival to cap a 0-11 run and bring the guests even closer, 64-48. Smodis rescued his team as the only scorer in a 7-0 response by CSKA that he capped with a three-pointer. Sesay answered from downtown, but CSKA still was in charge, 71-51 after 30 minutes.

The outcome was clear now, but Rocca tried to ignite a Napoli comeback with a layup to start the final quarter. Matteo Malaventura added a three-pointer to give the guests some hope at 71-56. It didn't last long, however, as Langdon answered from downtown coming off a screen to keep CSKA rolling at 74-56. Rocca scored again but free throws by Nikita Kourbanov and Smodis let CSKA increase the margin to 78-58 with 5 minutes to go. Everything was said and done, so CSKA finally allowed some easy baskets along the way. Malaventura followed a jumper with free throws while Ellis scored three times from downtown. Even when Napoli never gave up, it was already too late, as CSKA left the court with another home win.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Euroleague.net
Referees: SPIRIDONOS, LEONIDAS (GRE), LOVSIN, ANDREJ (SLO), KLAAR, LARS (SWE)
Attendance: 4000
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CSKA Moscow28251811
Eldo Napoli7251921
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CSKA Moscow28537182
Eldo Napoli7325172
Head coach: MESSINA, ETTORE
CSKA Moscow
# Player Min Pts 2FG
M-A
 3FG
M-A
 FT
M-A
 Rebounds As St To Bl Fouls PIR
O D T Fv Ag Cm Rv
4 PAPALOUKAS, THEODOROS 21:00 6 1/1 1/2 1/1   2 2 4 1 1   1 2 2 10
5 KURBANOV, NIKITA 10:00 5 1/3   3/6 2 5 7     1 1   1 4 10
8 SMODIS, MATJAZ 20:00 18 3/6 2/2 6/9   2 2   1 2     2 8 19
9 VANTERPOOL, DAVID 22:45 12 4/7   4/4 1 4 5 2 1 1   2 2 4 16
10 HOLDEN, J.R. 22:00 5 1/3 1/2     2 2 3 2       1   8
11 PASHUTIN, ZAKHAR 7:30 6   2/2     1 1 1         1 1 8
13 ANDERSEN, DAVID 23:30 9 3/6 1/1   3 4 7       1   2 3 15
14 SAVRASENKO, ALEKSEY 15:30 3 1/2   1/1   2 2 2     1   2 2 7
18 PONKRASHOV, ANTON 15:00 4 1/2   2/2   2 2 1   6     2 1 -1
20 VORONTSEVICH, ANDREY 2:00                   1         -1
21 LANGDON, TRAJAN 25:00 11 3/9 1/2 2/2   3 3   1     1   1 8
22 VAN DEN SPIEGEL, TOMAS 15:45 3 1/2   1/4 3   3   1   1   3 3 4
Team             1 1   2           3
Totals 200:00 82 19/41 8/11 20/29 9 28 37 13 9 12 4 4 18 29 106
46.3% 72.7% 69%
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
Head coach: BUCCHI, PIERO
Eldo Napoli
# Player Min Pts 2FG
M-A
 3FG
M-A
 FT
M-A
 Rebounds As St To Bl Fouls PIR
O D T Fv Ag Cm Rv
4 SESAY, ANSU 27:00 10 0/3 2/4 4/4   1 1   1 1 2   4 2 6
5 CITTADINI, ALESSANDRO 13:45 1     1/2   1 1     1     5 1 -4
7 MORENA, DOMENICO 1:15                       1 1   -2
9 SPINELLI, VALERIO 14:45           1 1 6   3       1 5
12 ROCCA, MASON 23:00 13 5/8   3/4 1 1 2   2 1   1 5 5 11
14 FLAMINI, SIMONE 15:00           1 1           2   -1
16 MALAVENTURA, MATTEO 14:15 8 1/1 1/4 3/3   1 1   1       2 1 6
20 TREPAGNIER, JEFF 22:45 8 2/4 1/4 1/2   5 5 1 1 3     3 2 5
24 LARRANAGA, JAY 15:00 3 1/3 0/1 1/1 1 2 3       1   3 1 2
25 ELLIS, TYRONE 25:15 15   5/8     2 2 1   2 1 1 1   12
30 MORANDAIS, MICHEL 28:00 14 4/7 1/4 3/3 1   1 2 1 1   1 3 5 12
Team             3 3     1         2
Totals 200:00 72 13/26 10/25 16/19 3 18 21 10 6 13 4 4 29 18 54
50% 40% 84.2%
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Head Coaches

MESSINA, ETTORE
CSKA Moscow
"We started the game very well and we were OK for 15 minutes after that. The team was motivated and the players fight like lions. But after that we suddenly started to play like the lion after eating: we were not aggressive enough. This game is also an answer to the question of why I do not use much the young Russian players. They make too many mistakes and do not play smart."
BUCCHI, PIERO
Eldo Napoli
"From the very start, CSKA surprised us with their physical abilities and the pressure they put on us. It took us too long to recover after the bad start. Congratulations to CSKA and good luck for the future."

Players

LANGDON, TRAJAN
CSKA Moscow
"It's a good win. "e came out with a great first quarter, but probably let our opponents score too much in the next ones. We have two road games coming up, we have to be ready for them, so its important that we will fly to Greece in a good mood."
VANTERPOOL, DAVID
CSKA Moscow
"Another tough Euroleague win. From the beginning we played very well, especially defensively - it was a decisive moment. We understood that we couldn't let them feel confident from the first minutes. It's the type of team that gives no mercy if you let them run and shoot."
LARRANAGA, JAY
Eldo Napoli
"CSKA's intensity was much better than ours. They were leading from the beginning and we could do nothing with that. They are smart, physical and unselfish. They understand that it's important to play good defense. CSKA is simply the best in Europe."
ELLIS, TYRONE
Eldo Napoli
"Road games are difficult especially against such a great team as CSKA. It is the best team in Europe, it is the current champion of the Euroleague. It is impossible to win when you start behind by 17-0. But we also started to play well towards the end. That's the up we can build on for the next games. We win together, we lose together, so I can't praise anyone. We need to speak and play more. It will help our progress as a team."
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