Grass is green, snow is white, CSKA is in Final Four!

Fenerbahce Istanbul – CSKA: 68-85 (+17)

Fenerbahce: Guduric (10 + 3 rb), Biberovic (7 + 7 rb), De Colo (22 + 3 as + 5 to), Vesely (8 + 3 rb + 3 to + 5 pf), Duverioglu (2 + 3 as + 4 pf) – start; Brown (2), Mahmutoglu (7), O'Quinn (4 + 3 rb), Pierre (6 + 6 rb + 2 as), Barthel (0), Sipahi (0), Eddie (0)…

CSKA: Hackett (3 + 2 as), Strelnieks (0), Shengelia (6 + 4 rb + 3 to), Kurbanov (2 + 4 rb), Eric (0) – start; Lundberg (22 + 7 rb + 5 as + 4 st + 3 to), Khomenko (DNP), Hilliard (7 + 4 as), Ukhov (0), Antonov (0), Voigtmann (11 + 6 rb + 2 as), Clyburn (34 + 7 rb)…

I feel very proud. I feel very happy for my players, for my club, the entire organization. Everybody deserves congratulations. It was an amazing series. We played through a lot of adversities this season. And still, we are hustling and going through those adversities. But congratulations to Fener as well. They had a great start today. It looked different at 12-0. My players were very composed though. We talked about that in the timeouts. We came out in the third quarter without any question determined, decisive, making good shots and deciding to go at the mismatches. They were trying to play small ball, they were trying to play big ball. We had good looks, we made shot and we were defending. So, congratulations to these guys because for some of them it’s the first Final Four. And we need to work on that: on saying what a Final Four is.