The coach of Panathinaikos Superfoods, Xavi Pascual, said after the fourth game against Real Madrid:
“First of all I’d like to congratulate Real Madrid and I wish them the best of luck in the Final Four. We tried to be competitive but we had a lot of difficulties and made a few mistakes we didn’t in the previous games, mainly during the first 30 minutes. The pressure was very high and we may have been frustrated after losing the previous games, we couldn’t be fully focussed because we were too excited which is why Real Madrid found easy ways to score. In the last quarter we came back and had a chance, but that Doncic three killed us. Congratulations to my team, we fought a lot to get here, we deserved to get to the playoffs and we lost three games by a small number of points. We defended well until the last second of the game but with the Doncic shot, Madrid was a little bit lucky. But they deserve to go to the Final Four.”
