With Malcolm Delaney sizzling in the third quarter and Victor Claver making clutch baskets in the fourth, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar pulled out a hard-fought 71-77 road win over the Panathinaikos Athens in the Greek capital on Friday night. Lokomotiv improved to 5-1 and a share of the first place of Group C, and needs only one more win to clinch a place in the Top 16. Panathinaikos suffered its first home loss and dropped to 2-4. Delaney finished with 23 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. Broekhoff netted 16, Claver finished with 13 plus 7 rebounds, and Dontaye Draper scored 10 in victory. Feldeine paced the hosts with 14 points, Miroslav Raduljica and James Gist had 11 apiece, while Nick Calathes scored 10 along with 5 assists and 4 steals in a losing effort.
Score in each period: 10-21, 29-33, 54-59, 71-77
| Time | Pts | 2FG | 3FG | FT | Rebounds | As | St | TO | Blocks | Fouls | |||||
| O | D | T | Fv | Ag | Rv | Cm | |||||||||
| Aleksandar Pavlovic | 13:48 | 5 | 2/2 | 0/1 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Vladimir Jankovic | 20:3 | 9 | 3/3 | 1/2 | 0/0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Antonis Fotsis | 11:11 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Miroslav Raduljica | 20:44 | 11 | 2/7 | 0/0 | 7/8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| James Feldeine | 31:5 | 14 | 0/3 | 3/7 | 5/5 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Dimitris Diamantidis | 28:10 | 4 | 1/2 | 0/3 | 2/2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| James Gist | 28:19 | 11 | 3/5 | 1/3 | 2/4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| Nick Calathes | 28:30 | 10 | 2/4 | 2/6 | 0/0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Ognjen Kuzmic | 18:5 | 7 | 3/5 | 0/0 | 1/2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Totals | 199:55 | 71 | 16/31 | 7/22 | 18/23 | 7 | 17 | 24 | 20 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 23 |
| Average | 51.6% | 31.8% | 78.3% | ||||||||||||
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