Olympiacos Piraeus vs. CSKA: 69-52 (-17)
Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:
I think the only thing we can do is to congratulate Olympiacos for a great game. They overwhelmed us with their physicality and their aggressiveness. They forced us too poorly on offense to win this game. They forced us to play individually when all season we were the team that had one of the highest number of assists per game. They forced us to become lonely on offense. And they controlled the tempo of the game. It’s a tough loss after getting here and after all the talk about last year. It’s a very, very tough loss. We have to make an effort to be able to handle this. I wish them to play another great game in the final because it’s not easy to get back to the final the year after you win. With CSKA we did it a couple of times and it was a great, great accomplishment. I just wish them to be a little bit more lucky than we were in those two times. For sure our plan was to try to take away their two-point game but if you look at the scoring chart you see a lot of red points inside our three seconds area because they went to the basket a lot of times.
