Is Efes s playoff start the best ever? euroleague.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euroleague.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Defense gives CSKA a 2-0 lead
CSKA Moscow moved within a victory of a record-breaking ninth consecutive Final Four when it downed visiting Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul by 78-67 on Friday in Game 2 of Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs. With a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series, CSKA will have at three chances, if needed, to reach its ninth consecutive Final Four, which no team has done before. Game 3 will be in Istanbul next Wednesday. Fenerbahce led 32-35 before CSKA used a 14-2 run to take a 50-42 halftime lead. Fenerbahce held CSKA without a field goal for the first 8 minutes of the third quarter to cut the difference to 52-51, but couldn t tie or go ahead, after which CSKA slowly pulled away. Daniel Hackett led the winners with 14 points and 9 assists. Tornike Shengelia added 11 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, while Nikia Kurbanov chipped in 10 points. Marko Guduric led Fenerbahce with 27 points while Nando De Colo and Danilo Barthel had 9 each.
AX Armani Exchange Milan vs FC Bayern Munich euroleague.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euroleague.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
FC Barcelona Congratulations to Xavi [Pascual] and congratulations to Zenit. I think they came out into the game with very clear ideas about how they wanted to play. They were a lot more solid than we were, especially defensively. I think our first half, defensively, was very, very bad. We cannot start the playoffs in this matter. Even when we tried to recuperate the lead and at some point, we tied the game, at the same time, it was not enough. Zenit, at the end, hit a lot of difficult shots and overall, probably deserved to win the game. We dug ourselves in a hole and now, it is up to us to get out from it. Honestly, I didn t expect this. I didn t expect to come out like this. I am disappointed and the best news today is that we have a little time to correct the difficult situation we are in. This can clearly happen in playoffs, we are playing against a very good team.
Kevin Pangos, Zenit: I always had passion for the game euroleague.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euroleague.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.