Pari NN — CSKA, 09 June 2014

Our team won the opening game of the VTB United League final series by running away from Nizhny Novgorod in the third quarter.

N Novgorod vs. CSKA: 54-65 (+11)

N Novgorod: Baburin (2 + 5 rb), Antonov (11 + 6 rb + 2 bs), Korobkov (11), Khvostov (5 + 3 to), Gubanov (4), Panin (8 + 11 rb), Thompson (3 + 7 rb + 4 pf), Rochestie (10 + 4 as)…

CSKA: Teodosic (13 + 5 as), Fridzon (7 + 4 rb), Pargo (2), Krstic (6), Weems (8 + 5 rb), Vorontsevich (4 + 4 rb + 5 pf), Kaun (11 + 4 rb), Khryapa (8 + 10 rb + 4 as), Hines (6 + 4 rb)…

Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:

I am happy that we won. Our players showed incredible effort on defense and that helped us to succeed despite low shooting percentage. But this was just one game and one win. We have to play other games against this excellent, well-coached team. And I think it will be more difficult tomorrow.