Cleared our minds
PBC CSKA – UNICS Kazan: 80-72 (+8)
CSKA: Trimble (26 + 3 as + 4 st), Ukhov (3), Jean-Charles (8 + 4 rb), M'Baye (11 + 3 rb + 2 as), Kurbanov (7 + 5 rb + 6 as + 3 st) – start; Ware (15 + 3 rb), Jekiri (4 + 5 rb), Gankevich (DNP), Astapkovich (2 + 2 as + 5 pf), Ruzhentsev (DNP), Antonov (0), Hanlan (4 + 3 rb)…
UNICS: Dimitrijevic (19 + 5 rb + 3 as + 4 to), Belenitskiy (11 + 8 rb + 4 pf), Reynolds (14 + 3 rb + 4 as + 2 st + 3 to + 4 pf), Labeyrie (6 + 4 rb), Knight (13 + 8 rb + 2 as) – start; Kulagin (4 to), Zaytsev (DNP), Stulenkov (DNP), Odinokov (DNP), Lazarev (DNP), Green (7 + 3 rb), Vorontsevich (2 + 5 rb + 3 as)…
Andreas Pistiolis, CSKA head coach:
As we expected, the opponents did their best, but this is a defending champion team with a lot of high-level players. We knew that they wil react. We started sloppy, had bad shooting decisions. But then we cleared our minds and began to play our basketball, bringing the game to where we needed it. The main thing is that we improved our defense, and the opponents didn’t score even 20 points in almost every quarter. We are in a good mental state and will continue to work together to get another victory.
