CSKA vs. Caja Laboral: 84-83
Evgeny Pashutin, CSKA Head Coach:
“It is very difficult to speak after those kind of game. In my opinion, our team played faerie game, showed real character winning in the end when it looked like it is impossible to win. Caja Laboral shot very good in the first half, but nobody is able to shot that good through all 40 minutes. We dominated almost all the game, but in the end we were tired, we did a number of unforced errors and lost Victor Khryapa to 5 fouls. The value of the game, the game of half-year period was too high to let the young players to decide the result. So we had to use only six players. This win was landmark for us. After all the critics we heard in the fall CSKA still finished on the first place in the Euroleague Group C. But this is only half of the battle. The main games are ahead for us.”
