Something unsolvable
Our team once again allowed the leader of the opponents to update his own record. This time Dimitrijevic scored 40 points, and with the horrific execution of own three-pointers, CSKA had no chance to win. UNICS won the regular season, Muscovites are waiting for the outcome of tomorrow's Zenit - Parma game to find out their playoff seed...
UNICS Kazan – PBC CSKA: 88-78 (-10)
UNICS: Dimitrijevic (40 + 6 rb + 9 as + 2 st + 4 to), Belenitskiy (2), Labeyrie (5 + 5 rb), Bako (3 + 9 rb + 3 as + 2 bs), Odinokov (0) – start; Reynolds (22 + 5 rb + 2 as), Zaytsev (2 + 4 pf), Stulenkov (DNP), Kolesnikov (DNP), Green (12 + 4 pf), Vorontsevich (2 + 2 as)…
CSKA: Trimble (21 + 6 as), Astapkovich (14 + 3 rb + 2 as + 3 to + 4 pf), Jean-Charles (14 + 7 rb + 4 pf), M'Baye (8 + 7 rb + 2 as), Kurbanov (8 + 3 rb + 2 as) – start; Jekiri (6 + 6 rb + 4 pf), Gankevich (0), Ukhov (0), Ruzhentsev (3), Antonov (4), Hanlan (0), Kardanakhishvili (DNP)…
Emil Rajkovic, CSKA head coach:
Congratulations to UNICS on the victory. Today the Kazan team was better in making shots. They scored a lot of difficult ones, including in one-on-one situations. In addition, the hosts were accurate in 12 out of 29 three-point attempts (41%), while CSKA converted only 6 out of 28. This is one of the reasons for our defeat. However, I cannot blame my players for their lack of effort. They fought, tried to show their best game, but made mistakes and were not effective enough.
