The coach of Panathinaikos, Aleksandar Djordjevic stated after the game against Unicaja Malaga: "It is very important that we won the first home game, although we were struggling for the whole match. Unicaja Malaga was prepared to react against our defense, which was bad in the third quarter and they didn't t allow us to run and play an up-tempo game. Smith is an enigma, but played great and took advantage of our mistakes in the way we tried to guard him. We have to correct our mistakes, which were done by veteran players in front of our bench. This is unacceptable and we have to work hard in order to avoid them. We missed lots of opportunities to take a bigger lead and our game against their zone was very passive. I wish not, but I am afraid that it is matter of time to lose a game at the buzzer, after it didn't happen in the matches against PAOK, Zalgiris Kaunas and Unicaja Malaga, where our opponents had the last possession."
The coach of Unicaja Malaga, Joan Plaza, said: "We would like to remain competitive, as has happened in the regular season and it worked out tonight, but unfortunately we lost in the last seconds. If you look on the statistics, you will see that we lost only in one quarter, which means that few and small details made the difference and decided the result. Congratulations to Panathinaikos for their win. I am not complaining either for the injuries and absences (such as those of Kuzminskas and Markovic) or the big trips. We knew that it would be hard, but we have to deal with this and try to improve our game in order to make it to the playoffs."
