The Lokomotiv Kuban forward, as captain, led the team to victory over UNICS in Game 3 of the bronze series (86:77), scoring 13 points and making 2 steals.
- What was the key factor for today's victory?
- The key factor is our fans! We have to give credit to the way they support us, especially when things are tough for us. With home fans in the stands, we had an extra drive to win today.
- At one point you were leading by 17, but in the 4th quarter UNICS took the lead. How did that happen?
- Probably, having led by a big margin, we thought that we had already won. We started playing the wrong kind of basketball: hasty attacks, playing defense the wrong way. But at the right moment we pulled ourselves together, started playing as a team again – and took the ending. When we defend and attack as a team, share the ball, we always win.
- What is there main thing to win Game 4?
- First of all, get in the right mindset. And in the game itself, everything will depend on defense. Attack also comes from defense. So the main thing, as I already said, is to play as a team on both sides of the court.
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