The game was very difficult. Uralmash is a good team. For some reason, it was hard for us to focus: from the very start, we had no concentration and had to catch up.
In timeouts and breaks, I kept telling the team that they shouldn't think about scoring, and first of all, start to defend well. In the second half, this gradually began to work out, and in the 4th quarter, the outcome of the match was determined. Plus, the young guys Mikhail Vedischev and Kirill Temirov came on from the bench very successfully – they helped the team when it was needed most.
A big roster is our advantage. But we will analyze why, not for the first time, we start a game with such a bad concentration.
