The coach of Panathinaikos OPAP, Xavi Pascual said after the end of the game against Anadolu Efes: "I think the picture of the game is very clear. We did everything wrong in the first 20 minutes. We didn't play defense and played very bad on offense. We didn't respect our rules on defensive rebounds and didn't play transition defense at the level that we have to do it. In the second 20 minutes, especially the first 17, we changed the picture and played better defense. Actually, we also played better on offense but every time we found an open shot, and we found a lot of them, we didn't hit three-point shots to come back into the game, especially in the last part of the third quarter and the beginning of the last quarter. We shot at least 5 or 6 three-point shots completely alone and didn't score. This is why we couldn't change the game, or at least we couldn't find the way to have chances to win. I think that, in general, Efes was the better team and this is why they won. We only played good defense for 17 minutes."
