BERLIN, May 12 (Reuters) - An impressive run to the Final Four and a flurry of individual awards are no guarantee that CSKA Moscow will win their seventh Euroleague title, the club's Greek coach Dimitris Itoudis told Reuters on Thursday.
CSKA won their last title in 2008 and have since lost two finals and four semis but remain the perennial favourites in Europe's premier club competition.
They will again be the more fancied team in Friday's opening semi-final against fellow Russians Lokomotiv Krasnodar, who defied the odds to reach the showpiece event in Berlin's Merzedes-Benz Arena.
"If I could say for sure we would break the jinx and win the trophy I would have to be a magician and I am not a magician, I am just a coach," Itoudis said after three of his players were presented with the season's individual awards.