Caja Laboral Vitoria vs. CSKA: 93-72 (-21)
Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:
I can’t find another expression to define what happened; they kicked our asses. You cannot come to Vitoria thinking that it’s going to be easy, even with a 2-0 advantage. You can imagine that the opponent will take a step ahead in terms of aggressiveness, pride, intensity, but today it was not only that. They just played better basketball than we did. Looked like we were surprised with their aggressiveness thinking that they would just let us win because we are CSKA. We weren’t mentally prepared and I take responsibility for that. The only positive thing is that our second unit played good game in the last 10 minutes, they allowed me to rest my so-called starters.
