Reserves as an alarm clock
Our team was surprisingly relaxed at the start of the game but woke up quickly and routed Lokomotiv-Kuban...
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar – PBC CSKA: 64-84 (+20)
Lokomotiv Kuban: Barford (4 + 5 rb + 3 as), Shcherbenev (11 + 3 as + 3 to), Martyuk (9 + 5 rb + 2 as + 4 pf), Uzinskiy (12 + 3 st + 4 pf), Willis (8 + 12 rb + 2 as) – start; Yelatontsev (2 + 2 as), Kvitkovskikh (3 + 4 rb + 2 as), Kalinov (DNP), Dolinin (0), Vedishchev (13), Yemchenko (2 + 2 as)…
CSKA: Ware (5 + 6 as), Antonov (7 + 6 rb), Milutinov (10 + 11 rb), Kurbanov (2), Shved (11 + 4 to) – start; Komolov (DNP), Ukhov (8 + 5 rb + 2 as), Astapkovich (5 + 6 rb + 3 as), Ruzhentsev (6), Davidovac (8), Jean-Charles (10 + 5 rb + 2 as + 2 bs), Moore (12 + 3 as)…
Emil Rajkovic, CSKA head coach:
Congratulations to both teams, it was a good fight. In the first quarter Loko started more aggressively and physical. We spoke, especially in halftime, first of all how we have to play better defense, especially on rebounds as the opponents had 14 offensive rebounds in the first half. And we pretty much controlled the game after. The championship has just started so we need to get everyone in the best possible shape.
