Vaughn's 5 points right after tipoff shot PAOK in front 7-4 before the lead changed hands on a dunk by Egor Vyaltsev and free throws by Evangelos Margaritis. Then 5 points in a row by both Pateev and Honeycutt filled most of a 0-12 run that put Khimki in control at 9-20. PAOK battled back with the next 7 points, pulling withing 16-20 ona basket by Apollon Tsochlas, but free throws by Popovic and Rice kept Khimki out front by 16-24 after 10 minutes. Tsochlas and Carter struck from downtown to resume PAOK's charge to get within 24-26 early in the second quarter. The comeback was complete with another triple, by Jake Odum, and free throws by Langford to make it 29-28. Ties and lead changes dominated after that as a triple by Sergey Monya for Khimki was met by one for Langford. Both teams shot impressively from the free throw line — PAOK 14 for 15 and Khimki 7 for 7 — and pulled into the break all even at 40-40.

Neither team could lock down a lead after halftime, either, as Kostas Kakaroudis joined PAOK's scoring, which was just enough to keep up with Rice and Koponen, whose free throw tied it up 50-50. Back and forth they went through a total of five ties and four lead changes in the quarter until Vyaltsev's free throws put Khimki in front and Popovic added a jumper for a 54-57 lead for the visitors after 30 minutes. Khimki seemingly broke the game open to start the final quarter as Popovic's three-pointer and Honeycutt's dunk and triple filled a 0-10 blast that put the guests suddenly up by 54-67. Carter reeled back the difference to single digits with 9 points in the next few minutes, then Odum's three-point play suddenly made it 70-75 with 2 minutes left. Pateev came up big with a dunk then, but PAOK kept chipping away until Georgios Dedas hit a three-pointer with 9 seconds left to make it 76-79. It went down to the free throw line, where Rice and Kopenen combined on 3 of 4 tries to take a narrow victory and control of second place back to Moscow.