Peace at home
We didn't get the same crushing defeat as two days ago, but our team still confidently took the second game of the quarterfinal series against Yenisei...
CSKA – Yenisey Krasnoyarsk: 85-67 (+18)
CSKA: Ware (12 + 3 rb), Ruzhentsev (7 + 5 rb), Ukhov (7 + 4 rb + 2 as), Astapkovich (5), Jean-Charles (12 + 4 rb + 2 as) – start; Cleveland (12), Trimble (20 + 3 as), Karpenko (0), Chadov (3 + 3 rb), Antonov (5 + 4 rb), Kurbanov (2 as), Mitrovic (2 + 5 rb + 2 as)…
Yenisey: Coleman (9 + 5 as), Artis (1 + 2 as + 3 to), Yevdokimov (4 + 2 as), Ryzhov (14 + 8 rb), Tasic (11 + 4 rb + 2 as) – start; Vedishchev (5 + 4 as), Kasatkin (5), Sonko (8 + 5 rb), Shlegel (DNP), Skuratov (DNP), Vanin (5 + 4 rb), Dolinin (5 + 8 rb)…
Andreas Pistiolis, CSKA head coach:
First of all, I'd like to express my gratitude to the fans who came out to support us. Regarding the game, I have to give credit to Yenisey, who were more aggressive and motivated today. We still had a lot of quality shots, but fewer than in the previous game. And even with those quality shots, we were less effective, because it's practically impossible to attack as well as we did the day before yesterday. So, I'm very happy with our defense; it's the most reliable element of our game; it doesn't depend on the day, only on effort, and for most of the game, we performed well in this area.
Anton Astapkovich, CSKA forward:
We changed our defense a bit, reorganized ourselves a bit compared to the first game. We did a detailed analysis, which focused only on defense. Offensively, we played the same as before.
