<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>MADRID, Spain — Spain beat defending champion Greece and Russia defeated Lithuania on Saturday to reach the final of the European basketball championship on Sunday. </p> Pau Gasol of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies scored 23 points and Jose Calderon made some big plays down the stretch in Spain's 82-77 victory in the first semifinal. </p> In the second, Utah Jazzman Andrei Kirilenko had 29 points and three blocks, and Russia withstood 30 points from Ramunas Siskauskas for a 86-74 victory that put the Russians in their record 19th final.</div></p> http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695210457,00.html</p>
Russia won the final, 60 - 59. Kirilenko had 17 points, and made some important plays in the fourth quarter. He called it "the best achievement of my career". So obviously, Kirilenko's confidence is up right now. That should be good news for the Jazz, as confidence was the issue for him last season. </p>
