CSKA — Krasnye Krylia, 02 March 2014

Our team hold on to tradition of playing interesting games on Sunday. This time Krasnye Krylia got the chance to scare the hosts but CSKA was still better in the end.

CSKA – Krasnye Krylia (Samara): 81-77 (+4)

CSKA: Teodosic (5 + 6 rb + 9 as + 3 to), Micov (17 + 4 rb), Fridzon (12 + 4 pf), Pargo (4 + 3 to), Krstic (14 + 4 as + 3 st), Weems (10 + 3 rb), Vorontsevich (13 + 4 rb), Hines (6 + 4 rb)…

Krasnye Krylia: O’Bannon (7 + 4 pf), Nichols (19 + 7 rb + 2 bs), Pushkov (6 + 4 rb), Ignerski (17 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Videnov (4 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Pecherov (16 + 3 rb + 2 bs), Miles (6 + 6 rb + 6 as), Zabelin (2)…

Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:

Our injury problems made the game even more complicated. You should also remember that Krstic should have stay out too but he played and provided us 20 quality minutes. We had obvious problems in the second quarter but we played with heart and desire after the break and deserved to win. Hopefully we will be able to avoid physical problems and will have optimal roster for the game against Zalgiris.