CBA-Euroleague Challenge quotes: CSKA 71-62 Sydney
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Sydney Kings head coach Brian Goorjian
"We are just really thankful to be here. We just played one of the best clubs, if not the best club, outside of the NBA. It was a great opportunity for our team, a great opportunity for our league, and I thought we represented ourselves very, very well." "CSKA is very well coached. They are bigger, longer and I thought they were a much better perimeter defensive team than Team China. China has Yao ming in the center, but the coach of CSKA does a great job on perimeter defense, and we just didn't get the looks, or the clean looks at the basket that we did when we played a friendly with Team China a couple nights ago."
Sydney Kings forward Russell Hinder
"We were definitely the underdogs tonight and I think the boys did their country proud, did their league proud and they should be very proud of themselves. We're a relatively new team. We've only been together probably six weeks, whereas CSKA has been together a couple years now. The boys should be congratulated and it should be recognized just well they played."
CSKA Moscow head coach Ettore Messina
"First of allwe would like to say that we are sorry for the delay. Obv it was not intentinal. Evenif we left quite early from Shanghai, it was wrose thatn we expected. So we hope everybody will forgive usofor this. Tomrrow we will be on time. As for the game, we had some good moments, considering tht we have been practicing togetheronlyfor four days, because we had seven players in the European championships. So as you see, the physical conditioning is not what we hope it will be in one month. But we had two important things that helped us to win the game. We played good defense, and we were unselfish on offense. We played against a good team from Sydney, which is ahead of us in preparation, and is also very well organized and coached. So we are pleased with the win and we hope tomorrow to make a step forward in our preparation."
CSKA Moscow forward Trajan Langdon
"Like coach said, after the long ride we had, it was difficult to get going, but once we did we were able to stay with it and win against a well-coached and well-organized team from Sydney. It was good preparation for us because we're about to start the Russian League. We're excited to be here. We enjoyed playing today and we look forward to playing tomorrow."
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Euroleague.net
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