CSKA - Virtus: solid win

05.12.2007
Ramunas Siskauskas (photo M. Serbin)
The key for the win against Virtus Bologna was the last quarter. CSKA finished it with the result 22-7 and got a solid win.

CSKA vs. Virtus Bologna: 79-53

Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:

- The win was very important for us. Last week Virtus played a great game versus Olimpija and we and we had a great match in Vitoria. We started the first quarter very well, but after that, in the second, we lost too many balls. We used to make 7 turnovers a game, we lost just 3 in Vitoria but this time we had 6 in just one quarter. After the break, especially from the 25th to 35th minute we played good basketball: fast and smart. I think in general we played well in defense and with the rebounding. We still have problems with our injured players. Savrasenko and Smodis would not be able to help us for rather a long time. Papaloukas started to run but he did not practice with the team so most likely he would not be ready to play on Saturday against Khimki.

Stefano Pillastrini, Virtus head coach:

- It is very hard to play against CSKA. But for the three quarters we managed to be close to the rival. But then we faced CSKA defense. Before the last quarter we managed to create the opportunities for the open shots ourselves. But in the last ten minutes we were not able to do so. The reason was the defense and that’s why we scored only 7 points in the quarter.


Photos
Ramunas Siskauskas (photo T. Makeeva)
David Andersen (photo Y. Kuzmin)
Trajan Langdon (photo Y. Kuzmin)
Marcus Goree  (photo T. Makeeva)
Nikos Zisis (photo M. Serbin)
Jon Robert Holden (photo T. Makeeva)
Anatoliy Kashirov (photo T. Makeeva)
Alexey Shved (photo T. Makeeva)
Ettore Messina (photo M. Serbin)
 (photo Y. Kuzmin)
Zakhar Pashutin (photo Y. Kuzmin)
Ramunas Siskauskas (photo T. Makeeva)
CSKA dance team (photo N. Malakhov)
Jon Robert Holden (photo M. Serbin)
 (photo M. Serbin)
CSKA fans (photo Y. Kuzmin)
Marcus Goree (photo Y. Kuzmin)
Trajan Langdon (photo M. Serbin)
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