The Lokomotiv forward played his best game in the VTB United League against UNICS (95:103): 21 points, 5 rebounds, 1 steal, 1 block and 22 efficiency points.
- How was this game to you?
- Our games against UNICS are always very interesting for both us and the fans. It is not easy against them, because we play quite aggressively and quickly. Unfortunately, today we were unable to maintain the rhythm that we set for ourselves, made many unnecessary mistakes and allowed our opponent to throw many easy balls into our basket.
- The score was quite equal until the 35th minute. Why did you let the opponent run away then?
- Details are very important, especially in the endings. When you make mistakes, the teams like UNICS always punish you. They took advantage of our loss of rhythm, scored easy baskets. Hence the result.
- Both teams scored a lot today – not a very usual thing for such games.
- Yes, I noticed that too. Looking at the score, one can think that both teams didn't defend very well, but today there was a real fight, everyone tried to defend tightly. And at the same time we were pretty good at attacking. I think both we and UNICS will analyze why we allowed each other to score so much.
- Both teams have a lot of injured players. How does Loko cope with that?
- Of course, it's difficult for us, but this is sport, so no one is immune from this. We try to do everything we can to adjust our game.
- What happened in the 3rd quarter between Antonius Cleveland and Marcos Knight?
- Nothing special. Marcos is pretty good at trash talking and he takes advantage of it. You just have to keep yourself cool and try not to react.
Share with Friends: