The coach of the national team of Serbia emphasized the importance of his team’s victory over Lithuania. Svetislav Pesicemphasizing that “one for all and all for one” is his team’s motto!
In detail what he said:
“Congratulations to my team, great win, important win, great performance against a great opponent. Respect to Lithuania, because they had an amazing tournament. I didn’t have time to watch all the matches, to analyze everything. We had to be ready to play against her. It was difficult to prepare, to find energy, to concentrate on defense. We did it tonight. If you play in the Euroleague or international competitions, you have 3-4 days to find energy and dynamism, concentration. But if you play every other day, it’s very difficult to do that.
We were motivated, our motto is “one for all and all for one”. In such situations you don’t play the way you want, but you have to be a team. If you analyze your opponent, you see how they play first of all in defense. In defense you can see everything. Valanciunas was our target. If you stop the 3-pointers in such a team… In the first period they had 5/7 and in the remaining three quarters they made two shots. It is important to know how to control the rebound. Lithuania has been the best rebounding team in the tournament so far. Sometimes statistics give us the right information.
We are happy for this victory, but from tomorrow we have to prepare for our next opponent. It will be the first time we have a rest day, this will be important for us spiritually as well. It’s easy to teach some reporters about basketball. Pace was very important. You can’t play 40 minutes in one style, that’s not good. European basketball is another basketball. The three-pointer is better than the two-pointer, but the important thing is to know how to change the pace. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes the opponent succeeds. Tonight we changed the tempo with Abramović, we want the player to respond immediately”.
Source: Sport Fm
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