Bad result, good sign
For the second year in a row, our team lost on Nikita Kurbanov's birthday – and again in a difficult ending. If this leads to the same result of the season, we can be happy. But we need to draw conclusions urgently…
Betcity Parma Perm region – CSKA PBC: 83-80 (-3)
Betcity Parma: Adams (17 + 6 as + 3 to), Svinin (3 + 3 rb), Sanders (6 + 4 as + 4 pf), Carter (23 + 11 rb + 2 as + 2 st + 5 to + 4 pf), Shashkov (4 + 7 rb + 5 pf) – start; Adams (27 + 7 rb + 5 as + 2 st), Il’nitskiy (8 rb + 2 st + 5 pf), Stafeyev (DNP), Firsov (2), Yegorov (1), Zakharov (DNP)…
CSKA: Ware (12 + 4 as), Ruzhentsev (19 + 4 rb), Ukhov (10), Astapkovich (3 + 8 rb), Jean-Charles (4 + 2 as + 4 pf) – start; Cleveland (5 + 2 st), Gankevich (2 + 3 as + 4 pf), Trimble (15 + 4 rb + 4 as + 2 st + 3 to), Karpenko (DNP), Chadov (DNP), Antonov (8 + 3 rb), Kurbanov (2 + 3 rb)…
Andreas Pistiolis, CSKA head coach:
First of all, congratulations to BETCITY Parma. I have no doubt that our opponents deserved the win; they played really well. As for us, we started softly and, in my opinion, didn't show good defense at any point in the game. We also missed some easy shots. Even with a good performance in the preseason, this is our second poor game of the regular season. We need to figure it out and do better.
