Playing with pleasure

CSKA vs. Alba (Berlin): 95-66 (+29)

CSKA: De Colo (22 + 3 st + 3 to), Fridzon (9 + 5 as), Nichols (10 + 5 rb), Jackson (18 + 4 as), Korobkov (4), Weems (7 + 3 rb + 4 as), Strebkov (3), Vorontsevich (6 + 3 rb + 4 as), Kaun (7 + 4 rb), Hines (9 + 7 rb + 2 bs)…

Alba: Giffey (6 + 3 st), King (4 rb), Vargas (3), Banic (12), Redding (16 + 8 rb + 3 to), Wohlfarth (6 + 4 rb), Stojanovski (2), Renfroe (2 + 5 rb), Hammonds (11 + 4 as), McLean (8)…

Obviously we played good basketball and I can congratulate my team. Most of the players stepped up, played with needed focus and desire and compete through all 40 minutes. Despite the fact that ALBA fought till the end, pressed us full-court, we managed to dominate the boards, shoot with high percentage and satisfied our fans.

The game was good, we did defensively all we had to do, we studied the opponent all week long. It made our offense easy. We shared the ball, played like a team so we did all we supposed to do.

I think we had very good game, we were focused from the first minute. We knew everything about their defense. We put a lot of aggressiveness, everybody were together from the very beginning. And after that we were confident. It was easy for us to play on offense. We got many injured players now so we tried to stay together and keep going day by day.