CSKA spent the second game of the playoff serie against Ural Great in a concentrated way. The 3rd period brought the team 20-points lead and of course the rival could not survive in such a situation.
CSKA vs Ural Great: 96-84
Marcus Brown missed the game as an extra foreign player. In his absence David Andersen and Antonio Granger competed for the leadership in scoring. The Australian center was luckier to score 21 point, Granger finished with 14. Zakhar Pashutin and Dimos Dikoudis added 12 each.
The 3rd game of the best-of-five series is going to be held in Perm on the 13th of May.
The head coach of CSKA Dusan Ivkovic:
The second game of the quarterfinal serie against Ural Great Perm was quote different then first one. Our team was very much concentrating before the Final Four. Today before the game it was small ceremony, we were awarded by small icons for every person in the team, one big icon and east.
Like the game after easy game in 26 points after the third quarter I gave opportunity to play to the young players, we lost the control under the game. But it was thegame when everybody already think about the Final Four. Tomorrow is East and we have day-off. I wantto congratulate all Russian peoples, especially all in our team, in CSKA office and our fans. From Monday morning we continue our preparations to Final Four.
The head coach of Ural Great Valdemaras Chomicius:
Today we had the same problems like in the first game. When we did not play team basketball and started to play individual games with bad assists and far throws, we turned down. In the last quarter we played team basketball and it was much better.
Marcus Brown missed the game as an extra foreign player. In his absence David Andersen and Antonio Granger competed for the leadership in scoring. The Australian center was luckier to score 21 point, Granger finished with 14. Zakhar Pashutin and Dimos Dikoudis added 12 each.
The 3rd game of the best-of-five series is going to be held in Perm on the 13th of May.
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