Basketball player CSKA Samson Ruzhentsev after defeating Lokomotiv Kuban during the final round of the United League regular season, in a conversation with , he noted that the success of this encounter was important to maintain confidence before the start of the playoffs.
On Sunday, the Army team defeated the Krasnodar team in a home game with the score 94:74. In the quarterfinals of the playoffs, CSKA will meet Avtodor Saratov. The series begins on March 31.
– Despite the fact that this game had no tournament significance for CSKA, his team played very well …
“For us, this game still meant something. We treated it the same way we treat all other games. Especially since the last game against Nizhny didn’t go as planned. It was just important for us to show that we can play, that we continue to play at the right level, even before the playoffs. This victory gives confidence.
As for Lokomotiv, they are an interesting team. There are a lot of good young Russian players, great legionnaires. Beautiful symbiosis.
— What can you say about playoff rival Avtodor?
– I think it will be a difficult series. There are also a lot of good players there. I don’t know, however, how well they played because the coach changed there. Somehow I haven’t been following them especially lately, as they haven’t played against each other for a long time. Nevertheless, I know that recently they confidently beat their rivals, so we just won’t be there, ” correspondent reports, in Ruzhentsev’s words.
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