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"It was a bad day for us on offense. We missed 16 three-point shots, and more than half of them were open shots that we usually make. In some parts of the game we used our low-post offense very well with Daniel Santiago and Ermal Kuqo, but in the last quarter Maccabi improved their aggressiveness on defense. There were many fouls in the low-post on Santiago, but for the referees it's not easy to take these calls in such atmosphere. 10 points isn't the real difference between the teams, because we controlled the game and it was a close one. We made a lot of turnovers in the closing minutes of the game. I don't think that's a big advantage for Maccabi, and I believe in two weeks from now in Istanbul we have a big chance to recover from the 10-point loss, because we saw that our game strategy isn't easy for Maccabi to defend, and I don't think once again we will miss these open shots. I don't think 10 points difference is enough for Maccabi. Maccabi plays with Pnini and Bluthenthal in the power forward position and it created a problem for us and we chose to use Santiago and Kuqo who have more low-post offense, and this is why Peker didn't play much tonight. Every team has a chance to win both home and road games. I think that there's a 90% chance all teams will have 3 wins at the end of this group, and the point difference will decide the first and second position. Maccabi will find more aggressive fans in Istanbul than we found here, and there the 10-point difference isn't much."
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