The coach of Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens, Georgios Vovoras stated after the game against CSKA Moscow: "We had a bad Greek League game against Olympiacos earlier this week, but the team reacted tonight. In the Olympiacos game, we left a picture that we didn't deserve. This is a team of fighters and winners and everyone believes we can achieve good things. We used the preparations that Coach Pedoulakis made. He put his philosophy in this team and we worked two months on it. In this game, defensively, we prepared a lot of switches with our big men to try to stop their penetration. Last season CSKA averaged almost 91 points and our goal was to keep them under 80. For 35 minutes we did that well. We kept them from doing what they do best. In the last five minutes, we missed some layups and other shots and that was key to us not having the chance to win the game. Congratulations to CSKA and Coach Itoudis for their great job and I hope we can do a great job in the next game."
