In the first day of 3rd week of Euroleague Top 16, Montepaschi Siena won the game against the defending champion CSKA Moscow by 18 points margin; 74-56. They played quite well in the third quarter and outscored the visitors by 11 points. Especially Terrell McIntyre led the team by 23 points with an almost perfect field goal percentage. (3/4 2pt FG and 3/4 3pt FG.)
Even though they are relatively weak in the bench compared to CSKA Moscow, Montepaschi Siena has a very strong and neat starting line-up. The group of McIntyre, Sato, Eze, Stonerook, Kaukenas, Domercant and Lavrinovic is the core of this team and it is an obvious fact that they are capable of coping with any team playing in the Top 16. Besides, there is a court advantage with passionate supporters that pack the Palapasports every home game. Actually, it was one of the factors that Siena won the game last night.
In the meantime, CSKA Moscow has some serious issues concerning the integrity of the game they are playing. They couldn't successfully coordinate the defence and also made lots of turnovers in the second half which eventually let Montepaschi widen the scoring gap. I can't give a name of even one player from CSKA that played above average. Maybe Terence Morris made efforts a little bit but it was not enough to stop the home team.
