Pleased with the victory but mostly with the team’s performance, Zeljko Obradovic stressed amongst others after the buzzer in the encounter versus Khimki: “Congratulations to my players for the exquisite game they enforced. We played great basketball, with good defense, against a good and offensive team. Our marking on McCarty and Langford was superb whilst we controlled rebounding matters resulting in our opportunity to run on fast-breaks. This evening Diamantidis committed one of his best games ever with the team. All players presented themselves great and congratulations to the fans for their presence”.
Sergio Scariolo, Khimki head coach noted: “After defeating Real Madrid we lost focus and thought we had become a better team than what we actually are. Panathinaikos was the greater opponent this evening, its quality is a granted fact and we expected it to play in that manor, despite its given absences. There was a clear difference between the two teams on court and it was a fair loss for us. If we aspire towards something good in Euroleague we are obligated to input 100 percent of our possibilities in every single encounter”.
