CSKA — Fenerbahce, 04 November 2021

CSKA – Fenerbahce Istanbul: 82-91 (-9)

CSKA: Hackett (15 + 5 as), Voigtmann (8 + 3 rb + 2 as), Shengelia (10 + 3 as), Kurbanov (3 + 3 rb + 3 as), Shved (9 + 3 as + 2 st) – start; Lundberg (4), Bolomboy (6 + 7 rb), Khomenko (DNP), Ukhov (0), Antonov (DNP), Clyburn (26 + 9 rb + 2 st + 2 bs), Faried (1 + 4 rb)…

Fenerbahce: Shayok (12 + 5 rb + 4 as), Henry (7 + 3 rb + 4 as + 2 st + 4 pf), Guduric (13 + 2 as + 4 pf), Vesely (17 + 7 rb + 3 as), Booker (13 + 5 rb + 5 as + 3 to) – start; Birsen (0), Hazer (DNP), Mahmutoglu (2), Biberovic (DNP), De Colo (18 + 4 as + 2 bs), Polonara (7), Duverioglu (2)…

Congratulations to Fener. Obviously for us, it's a tough moment, the fact that we were facing the third straight loss in the EuroLeague and fourth overall. It was a totally different game though today regarding the effort and regarding the fight. If I can go into details I would say it was a very wrong approach on the defensive end at the beginning of the game and especially in the first quarter, they were shooting 90% on twos and they finished halftime close to 70% and we talked about that, we analyzed that. Eventually finished the game shooting better than them in two-pointers, having better mobility on their defense, trying to cut our creators, we found better spacing. We were shooting poorly for three-pointers, even though we eventually had the same numbers of making threes, but the shots we took were almost double what they had. This is also because we had more possessions because of our offensive rebounds and the effort was there, we could have shot better that ball and we will shoot better. As I've said, from these three last losses we can take out the best parts and analyze them and try to eliminate the bad things.