Lost to the leader

Today BC Triumph lost to the russian championship leader CSKA in the home game - 65:78.
It was very interesting and tough game, Triumph was ahead after the first half, but CSKA thanks to experience and long bench came out stronger at the end and won. BC Triumph players Alexander Bashminov and Konstantin Nesterov scored 11 points each.
BC Triumph Head Coach Stanislav Eremin:
- Congratulations to CSKA. Today was a difficult game. Thanks to all who supportes us tonight. It was very pleasant to see the arena full of fans.
I'm satisfied with our game in the first half, we played better defense and agressive offense, were leading in the score. But we made few turnovers, some mistakes and CSKA made the counterattacks. I think that 8 points that Holden scores in a row were the key of the game tonight. Regarding our leaders, thay played not that game we were expecting of. Also we lacked Valery Likhodey, he was injured and couldn't help us. I think that last two weeks we had no games, so we lost our game rhythm.

30 january 2010