Wish we always miss like this

20.04.2017
Milos Teodosic (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Our team took another tough home win against Baskonia thanks to Hines’ heroics.

CSKA vs. Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz: 84-82 (+2)


CSKA: De Colo (10 + 3 to + 5 pf), Teodosic (16 + 8 as), Augustine (9 + 5 rb), Fridzon (8 + 3 to), Jackson (7 + 6 as), Vorontsevich (2 + 5 rb), Higgins (8), Khryapa (6 + 6 rb + 3 to), Kurbanov (8 + 3 rb), Hines (10 + 3 rb)…

Baskonia: Larkin (8 + 8 as + 3 to), Voigtmann (10 + 6 rb), Hanga (6 + 5 pf), Beaubois (21 + 5 as + 3 to), Blazic (2), Diop (7 + 3 rb), Tillie (10 + 9 rb + 3 to + 5 pf), Laprovittola (3 + 4 as), Shengelia (3 + 3 to), Budinger (12 + 6 rb)…



Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
Congratulations to my players for leading 2-0. 2-0 is 2-0. It doesn’t give you the qualification, but it gives you a good start. This is what we were supposed to do, defend our home-court advantage and take the two victories. Regarding the game, we had very good control, even though the first half was equal. Baskonia led by 2, but we had, if I am not mistaken, a 9-2 run at the end of the first half and took the advantage by 5. And we opened the third quarter, even though it was only plus-6 for us, we played pretty good defense and were more consistent defensively. They made some big shots. Baskonia on the road, I would say has the same values of last year’s playoff with [Crvena] Zvezda, they shoot the ball pretty well – better than us – from the perimeter. They made 11 three-pointers in Game 1 and 12 three-pointers in Game 2. Most of them were contested and well defended. But we took the lead plus [17] and some were there when the second unit came off the bench to try their last options. … We came to the clutch moments, unfortunately on that last play, Cory [Higgins] slipped, actually he was pushed by the effort of Teodosic to switch on defense and he lost and that’s why Beaubois made that open look. But then we had a big play with Teo attacking on the block and Kyle grabbed that rebound and made the winning play. Definitely we have to work on press situations, but as I said there are a lot of details we can talk about as a team from the film. We know it will be a tough mission in Vitoria, but we have the character, we have the wish, we have the players to go there and qualify for the Final Four in Spain.

Photos
Nando De Colo (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Kyle Hines (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
James Augustine (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Nikita Kurbanov (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Cory Higgins (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Vitaly Fridzon (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Aaron Jackson (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Victor Khryapa (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Andrey Vorontsevich (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
CSKA fans (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Anastasiya 	Shumkova (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Dimitris 	Itoudis (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
CSKA (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Milos Teodosic (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Nando De Colo (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Cory Higgins (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Kyle Hines (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Vitaly Fridzon (photo: T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Aaron Jackson (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
CSKA (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Nikita Kurbanov (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
CSKA dance team (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Cory Higgins (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Victor Khryapa (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Milos Teodosic (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
CSKA dance team (photo: M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)