UNICS — CSKA, 13 April 2024

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.