On the level of champions
Meetings with Efes are always memorable. And now, at the training camp in Belek, Turkey, everything came to a tense ending, in which CSKA was simply unlucky...
Anadolu Efes Istanbul – PBC CSKA: 77-76 (-1)
Anadolu Efes: Bryant (2 + 3 rb + 6 as), Ilyasoglu (4 + 4 rb + 4 as), Clyburn (13 + 5 rb + 4 as + 2 st + 4 to), Pleiss (10), Dunston (4 rb) – start; Beaubois (14 + 4 as), Balbay (3 + 2 as + 3 to), Efeoglu (5), Gazi (0), Guven (2), Arna (9 + 5 rb + 3 st), Zizic (15 + 8 rb)…
CSKA: Ware (12 + 3 rb + 9 as + 2 st), Ukhov (3), Antonov (18 + 3 rb), Jean-Charles (11 + 4 rb + 4 as), Kurbanov (11 + 4 rb + 2 as + 4 pf) – start; Komolov (0), Astapkovich (9 + 7 rb), Kardanakhishvili (DNP), Ruzhentsev (2), Antipov (0), Moore (8), Desyatnikov (2)…
Emil Rajkovic, CSKA head coach:
For this stage of preparation and the level of the opponents that we had, I think it was a pretty good game. We did some mistakes in the end but this is what preseason is all about - making mistakes and correcting them. We will learn from this and we will know what to do in the games that really matter.
