Oleg Kiselev: «Today, we witnessed true teamwork, which clearly led to the result.»

The head coach of «Astana», Oleg Kiselev, summarized the game against «Samara».

«I would like to congratulate my players for perfectly executing our defensive strategy as planned. It was the defense that became the main factor in our victory today: we allowed «Samara» to score only 66 points at home – that's quite an achievement. In addition to that, I'd like to say that we played very well in the last minutes on offense. Everyone who took to the court contributed to the victory. Today, there was a team – hence the result. This is a significanctory for us.

Yes, we are not in the top six, but we are fighting for the play-in, and this victory is important for us going forward. For «Samara», this was also a very important game to make it into the top six – and that, of course, puts a certain pressure on the players. Apparently, today, they didn't handle it well enough. Such things happen. No one is immune to this.