By Eurohoops Team / info@eurohoops.net
It was a great night for Khimki Moscow Region as they defeated Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens, while Alexey Shved also reached a unique feat. After the game coach, Georgios Bartzokas was happy with his team’s performance, while Xavi Pascual stated that his team did not follow the plan prior to the game.
Coach Georgios Bartzokas stated that his team was on point defensively: “It was an important game for us. Now, every game counts as two. You need to be concentrated and focused on your opponents. We had a solid defensive game, we allowed PAO to only score 61 points. We are talking about a very talented team defensively with good players. We stopped the creation of Calathes. We did not allow Panathinaikos to move the ball around the perimeter. We protected our basket. In offense, we were so and so, did not have a great night. But thanks to our defense we won the game. We still have seven games to end the regular season and need to fight moving forward.”
Coach Bartzokas also commented on Thomas Robinson’s return: “I tried to give Thomas Robinson a few minutes to get him back on track. He will play better in the next games but we have to keep in mind that he was out for three months. He needs some time to get back in shape again.“
Xavi Pascual was not happy with his team’s performance: “First of all congratulations to Khimki, they were the better team and deserved to win. Especially in the last part of the second quarter and the last four minutes we played very bad overall. In offense we did not follow the plan we had before the game. It is impossible to win a game like this. This is why we couldn’t’ score more than 18 points in one quarter. We did not play offense at all and our defense, especially in the first half, was bad.”
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