By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The Russian sharpshooter explained: “First of all, it’s an important win for us because we lost a couple in a row. We needed a game like this to come back. Of course, we are happy, especially to win here with these fans. I think that the best atmosphere in the EuroLeague is here, and it’s very hard to play against Crvena Zvezda with this crowd, so we are happy. My teammates and coaches trust me. I just want to play hard every game. If you win it’s great, but if you lose it doesn’t matter how you play. We played the whole game the same way but in the end, we played better on defense and got a couple rebounds. The whole team played wonderfully.”
Khimki’s coach Giorgos Bartzokas added: “We expected something like this. With the atmosphere here so tough, we needed to play together to manage to win the game. It’s a great win on the road for us. We have 10 wins in the EuroLeague, something very important for us. We are a completely new team and playing without our first rebounder, Thomas Robinson. I have to give credit to our players. The second half we started scoring more. We had patience and that gave us more opportunities to score. It was important, too, that we had better percentages in the second half. We took confidence from this and managed to win.”