CSKA arrived in Perm for the 18th time in its history without Theodoros Papaloukas who stayed in Moscow having a rest. And this time Army men were very close to loss - Ural Great players showed their best and moved the game into an overtime. But CSKA finally found the rhythm and won - 99-91.
Ural Great - CSKA: 91-99 ÎÒ
• Ural Great scored 91 points. Only PAO managed to score more (92) in a game against CSKA this season
• Sergei Panov scored 17 points. It is a repeat of his high this season in all the official games
• Sergei Panov collected 9 rebounds. It is a repeat of his high this season in all the official games
• David Vanterpool made 6 turnovers. It's a second time CSKA player made so many turnovers in a single game this season. First one was JR Holden
• David Vanterpool was fouled out for a first time this season
• JR Holden made 8 assists tonight. It is his high this season in all the official games
• Trajan Langdon made 4 steals. It is a repeat of his high this season in all the official games
Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:
- Teams had different aims in this game. It was a chance for us to give some playing time to Zavoruev, Kurbanov, Pashutin. And it is very important that they got this opportunity. It’s also good that we finished regular season with the win. It’s even more pleasantly that we did it in a such basketball city as Perm, where 7 thousands of fans gathered to watch our match. I’d like to congratulate Ural Great with the Eurocup Challenge win and wish them luck in play-offs and in the next year’s FIBA Eurocup.
Why didn’t you take a single time-out in the fourth quarter?
- I wanted to see who would take responsibility on himself without my promptings, I wanted to see how my team would behave. Because of this reason Nikita Kurbanov started in over-time. We need his partners to get used to his being on court at the decisive moments.
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