No collapses

Lokomotiv Kuban which was never the elite team in Russian basketball feels the confidence in the games against well-recognized leaders this season and deserved the place on the top of the standings. Our team is the one which suffered the defeat vs Loko in away game two months ago. This time CSKA will play the host in the game of BEKO PBL championship.

Army men prepared with 12 players on active roster. Artem Zabelin played for the junior team in the final tournament of Russian Championship. Nikita Kurbanov is out with tendinitis in quadriceps muscle of the left thigh. Forward will be rehabilitating for two weeks.

“We lost in Krasnodar in my first game for CSKA so I don’t think the team will need some extra motivation”, - CSKA head coach Jonas Kazlauskas said. “The game is very important in means of standings, it has the worthiness of playoffs game, and everybody understands it. Lokomotiv lost in the Eurochallenge final game but defeated UNICS afterwards so I think they will come to Moscow in good mood. I can’t say we played bad in our away loss. We allowed ourselves several bad segments and we will try to avoid them this time.”