THE Panathinaikos AKTOR was at +17 in Vitoria, but left it Baskonia to come back and finally lost 75-73 with his game-winning shot Cody Miller-McIntyre!
After the match, Ergin Ataman he focused on the very good first half of the “greens”, while referring to the Basques’ changes and the difficult shots they made, stressing that this is how the basketball if you don’t take advantage of your opportunities.
His statements in detail:
“After the first period we controlled the game and played very good defense. Especially in the first half in attack we moved the ball very well, but we missed some free kicks. Then they played more aggressive defense. In the second half, Baskonia changed their five and started playing without a forward, without Marinkovic and made changes in defense. In attack he found some very difficult shots, miracles, like those of Diez and Moneke, that put them back in the game. And in the end they scored the basket that gave them the victory.”
For the differences that Panathinaikos lost: “That’s basketball. Sometimes you can come back from 20 points, as happened in Monaco, and sometimes you can be up and with some miracle shots you can lose the game. We made mistakes and had a chance, like in Sluka’s unsportsmanlike game and that’s how we lost the game.”
On what would change in the final phase: “We will change something in the Final Four and in the final we will take the title.”
Source: Sport Fm
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