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CSKA vs. Valencia Basket: 84-75 (+9)

CSKA: Hilliard (12), Hackett (9 + 2 as + 4 pf), Shengelia (10 + 6 rb + 2 as), Milutinov (3 + 8 rb + 3 as + 2 bs), Kurbanov (2) – start; Khomenko (DNP), James (17 + 5 as), Ukhov (DNP), Antonov (3), Strelnieks (2 + 2 as), Voigtmann (11 + 7 rb), Clyburn (15 + 5 rb + 2 as)…

Valencia Basket: Marinkovic (7 + 3 as), Puerto (2 + 2 as), Labeyrie (10 + 4 rb + 2 as), Van Rossom (5 + 5 as), Dubljevic (9 + 5 rb + 3 to) – start; Prepelic (7 + 2 as), Pradilla (7 + 4 rb), Tobey (6 + 4 rb + 3 to), Kalinic (15 + 3 rb + 3 as + 4 pf), Vives (3), Williams (2 + 6 rb), Hermannsson (2 + 2 as)…

First of all, I want to congratulate my players. They were all locked in and we wanted to win this game really hard. So I congratulate them from my heart. It was the first one in a series of games in which we managed to be below 10 turnovers. It gave us a great boost because we also had 6 steals. I’m also very happy about how we fought on the boards tonight, we won a team that got size, and as I said before the game, I believe they are a team for the playoffs. So, it’s a big win overall. Sometimes things go in our way, as we planned, but some other times they don’t and that’s the game. This is a game of runs, like I said at halftime. They got theirs, and we got ours, but we managed to keep them where we wanted them to be.