President of CSKA Andrei Vatutin shared his emotions after the army team’s victory over “Zenith” in the VTB United League semi-final series.
CSKA On Sunday, he defeated Zenit in the sixth match of the VTB United League semi-final series (97:91) and reached the final of the tournament.
— Some CSKA players no longer had any emotion after such a tense series. Just tiredness. Do you have it too?
– No, there are emotions. It’s just hard to take them out of the game because it was a very tough series for both teams. I can’t remember a series where one team won confidently in a game, then another team won confidently, and then the same thing. About 15 years ago, a similar series took place with Maccabi in the Euroleague. But it lasted until two victories. We won at home, then lost away, then won again at home. But this series still included two victories.
I’m happy that we won in Moscow and made the fans happy. Today the room was almost full. There is still a confrontation between Moscow and St. Petersburg. The fact that Moscow won today, on Pioneers’ Day, is very pleasant (smiles). Five years ago on this day we won the Euroleague – this also added positive emotions to the match against Zenit.
We’ve had some issues with sevens games the last two seasons. It’s good that we decided not to go to the seventh game and everything was decided in the sixth game. It seems to me that the guys have become a team over the last month and enjoy playing together. And it’s probably one of the most important results of these playoffs. That we play for each other.
I am very happy that Emil Raikovich congratulated us. This only further confirms his high human qualities.
— Who do you want to see as your opponent in the final?
– There are no preferences. I read somewhere that Lokomotiv and UNICS have a physical series, and we have a series of failures. It’s difficult to say who we will play with, but I will calmly watch the seventh match,” Vatutin told .
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