BASKETBALL

Post-game comments - Igor Kokoskov

26 February 2021 Friday 23:10

Congratulations to Efes for their performance tonight. They were the better team for 40 minutes. They played confident, played together and just showed tonight something that we talked about before the game, that we already knew, that they are a very talented, very good team. They are a veteran team that reads the game very well, with a lot of shooters on the court. I am happy for Micic; he had a really good season and I am happy for him. But for us, it is a learning game. We are going to play this team again. We know that. We are going to face this team and learn from mistakes that we made tonight. I am taking full responsibility as a coach that, mentally and psychologically, the team was not prepared. We had 10 turnovers in the first half and 5 turnovers in the opening 5 minutes of the game. I think we were too anxious, too nervous. We have to go back to basics, learning from this game, because we played against a really good team. We know this team is a contender to win the EuroLeague this year. From that point of view, again, we have to give them credit that we played a really good team. But also, I know that we are better that what we showed tonight. We have to stay together as a group and focus on our next game.