The coach of Panathinaikos, Aleksandar Djordjevic stated after the game against Lokomotiv Kuban: "I congratulate Lokomotiv on a great win. I think they deserved the win with the way they played. They played great and intense game. We opened the game good, but Lokomotiv has a long bench and everybody who entered from their bench gave something to their team. I think it was the key, and we didn’t have all our players involved into the game as we’re used to. We had 10 or 11 turnovers in the first half and most of them in the second quarter, when Lokomotiv Kuban managed to get back into the game. We fixed that in the second half, but in the end of fourth quarter we had lot of open shots that we couldn’t make and we let them score with our hands down on very important attempts. We’re the team with a lot of experience and we cannot make such mistakes. Another key for Lokomotiv was rebounding; we shouldn’t allow opponents to outrebound us like that. Maybe a little bit of our energy went into all those trips we had recently; this is the second time in Russia this season, we’ve also been to China. We need to get our energy back for our future games, especially for the one that is in front of us in two days against Olympiacos."
