MOSCOW, January 21, Semyon Galkevich. CSKA after the defeat from the Italian «Milan» «In the Euroleague match, I cannot refer to the absence of Daniel Hackett in the basketball team,» said the head coach of the army team, Dimitris Itoudis. Hackett missed the game due to illness.» Both teams were short of players, but Milan had all the major builders in the game and we played without Hackett and Clyburn. Anyway, we had enough to fight. Dani Hackett is very important for, but his absence does not excuse or justify us. We had to fight without him. In every game, you need to fight from the first minutes, we started very badly today,» Itoudis told reporters. «And this lost with a score of 10 :23 the first quarter cost us the match, after that we were able to pull ourselves together, we almost took the lead two or three times, but it didn't happen, we won three quarters 47:44, but we didn't start the game as hard as we should , we could not expect to win,» Itoudis said.
