European basketball champion and three-time Euroleague winner Alexei Savrasenko called the VTB United League final series between Moscow CSKA and Petersburg “Zenith” the best in the history of the tournament.
On Thursday, Zenit beat CSKA with a score of 82:63 (16:21, 23:12, 20:15, 23:15). The score in the series up to four wins became 3-3. The decisive meeting will take place on June 5 in Moscow.
— This is the best final series in the history of the VTB United League. The clubs went very well to the final. In St. Petersburg, there was a full house, a packed house. The fans pushed the team forward. It’s great to play in this environment.
Make all the playoffs to four wins? It is complicated. For the first time, the United League has made changes. I think next year the format will change a bit, there will be more games. I think this final is an ornament of Russian basketball.
Now the recovery of key players comes to the fore, since CSKA has a tight rotation, the leaders are physically hooked, it was obvious. Zenit controlled the rebound, the whole game. The X factor for Zenit was the length of the bench. (Xavier coach of Zenith) Pascual has played against all the Russian players. The guys came out and unloaded the team leaders,” Savrasenko said on the air show “All for the match” on “”.
Source : MatchTV
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