The key is to wake up
Our team left no chance to Astana by playing great defense in the second half...
PBC CSKA – Astana Astana: 96-66 (+30)
CSKA: Ware (4 + 3 as), Jekiri (14 + 5 rb), Astapkovich (13 + 5 rb + 3 as), Ruzhentsev (12 + 6 rb), Antonov (2 + 4 rb + 3 as) – start; Mikhailovskii (6 + 2 bs), Zakharov (0), Trimble (5 + 8 as + 2 st), Ukhov (6), Jean-Charles (14 + 5 rb + 2 as), Kardanakhishvili (3 + 2 as), M'Baye (17 + 5 rb + 3 as)…
Astana: Johnson (7 + 4 rb + 2 as + 3 to), Davis (4 + 6 rb + 2 st + 5 pf), Hamm (22 + 7 rb), Haase (8 + 3 rb + 4 pf), Anderson (10 + 5 as) – start; Murzagaliev (3), Kunkel (10 + 5 as), Shcherbak (0), Marchuk (2 + 4 rb), Gavrilov (0), Marchuk (0), Maidekin (0)…
Emil Rajkovic, CSKA head coach:
Today we used all the players, most of them played good defense, especially in the second half. It’s nice to beat such an opponent, who has been playing good basketball this season, because Astana beat Nizhny, confidently defeated Avtodor, and fought to the end with Zenit. That's why we took the game seriously, and it paid off.
