The head coach of Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens, Xavi Pascual, stated after the game against Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv: “Thank you to the fans who helped the team. We are very happy with this win, it was a tough game and we played more or less good on defense for 40 minutes, only mistakes in transition defense. On offense sometimes we played good but we need to improve quickly, because next week will be very difficult. It’s important to win games like this because we don’t have many days to practise, so we have to grow and improve within the games and that means we have some discontinuity as a team. Bochiridis helped the team a lot, I’m happy with his work.”
The coach of Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv Rami Hadar said: “First I want to congratulate my players for fighting and making two comebacks here in a difficult place. We suffered again from a disadvantage in possession, turning over the ball six more times than the opponent and out-rebounded on the offensive boards by seven possessions. So having less shots and shooting below our percentage eventually caused the loss, although I’m happy with some improvement on our defensive game. If you judge both ends of the floor, we played bad on offense but decent on defense. In the last quarter we had chances to win but unfortunately we didn’t make the shots.”
