Being a guest is good, but being at home is better
CSKA – Zenit St.Petersburg: 96-82 (+14)
CSKA: Hilliard (15 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Hackett (16 + 4 as), Shengelia (9 + 5 rb), Kurbanov (10 + 2 as), Eric (3 + 5 rb) – start; Bolomboy (0), Khomenko (0), Ukhov (0), Antonov (5 + 4 pf), Voigtmann (14 + 4 as), Clyburn (24 + 5 rb + 3 as), Lopatin (0)…
Zenit: Pangos (15 + 5 as + 3 to), Hollins (2), Thomas (13 + 2 as), Zubkov (5 + 4 pf), Black (4 + 5 rb + 5 pf) – start; Zaharov (2), Fridzon (7 + 5 rb + 4 pf), Baron (13 + 2 as + 3 to), Khvostov (8 + 4 as), Pushkov (DNP), Trushkin (3), Poythress (10 + 2 as)…
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Congratulations to the team, the players. Everybody is locked in, we play against great team, we want to be focused on what the moment says for this club, for ourselves, for everybody. Today it was like that, as expected, it was a battle, like all games that we played so far against Zenit, and we played many. Details decided; we did something better than in the last game. We figured it out also what to do on offense, we never gave up on our belief of what we can do, how we can perform on the court. The game [initially] did not go the way we wanted to, Toko got two quick fouls, but the players from the bench came and did a great job. We are 2-1, we need another win, we know it’s going to be tough. Thank you to the fans, they created great atmosphere, players felt them, and they like this atmosphere.
