CSKA vs. Zalgiris Kaunas: 90-74
Evgeny Pashutin, CSKA Head Coach:
“I am glad that we won in this important game which opened the season for us. In the preseason we traded successful games with not that successful ones, tried to find right rotation, to improve defense and offense. I think that the meetings with the strong teams helped us a lot, especially the one against Panathinaikos. That game hardened us, and we were calm today, showing no nervousness. I do not want to single out any player. My biggest wish is to have the same wide rotation where everyone shows everything he can. And we want, we try hard to make our offense bright and high-scoring. Khryapa was very aggressive on defense today, that’s why he had so much fouls. But that was justifiable – we want our defense to be as aggressive, on the brink of foul.”