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MACCABI TEL AVIV
Head Coach
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GERSHON, PINI
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"I cannot make much comment on the game other than you just have to check our shooting percentages. This is a game of players, and they did an excellent job. I kept the Shabbatz and skipper the practice. Fortunatelt, the coaches changed all plays and the players duid everything wrong (laughs). They made the job after a long, tough season with many wins at the buzzer. It was an easy win today. We deserved the championship."
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MACCABI TEL AVIV
Guard
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PARKER, ANTHONY
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"I am so happy, man and to do like this in front of our fans who have been supporting us all year. We had our ups and downs. I want to give them a lot of credit. They were wonderful. This victory is painted yellow, for them. The MVP, I don't deserve it. We had so many guys play so hard, it's a team effort. I am just so happy right now, I don't know what to say. Skipper is a great team. We jumped on them from the beginning and I think they were a young team without experience in this kind of situation, certainly in this atmosphere. I thought the keys came at the end of the first and second quarters when we hit the last shots and that kept the lead in the 20-point range. From there on, it was just great, great fun being a part of all this."
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MACCABI TEL AVIV
Guard
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JASIKEVICIUS, SARUNAS
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"We played such a great game! I respect Skipper and the capabilities they have as a team, they have shown what they can do all season long. This is an amazing feeling, team effort was the key, this team has worked a lot for thios, starting with my teammates and coaches and ending with a great organization like Maccabi is. When you put a lor together, it is pretty fair to say we are the Euroleague Champions."
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MACCABI TEL AVIV
Guard
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BURSTEIN, TAL
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"It's an amazing feeling. A great, great moment. Really unbelievable. The atmosphere was incredible. Everyone on the team gave 200 percent. I didnt expect anything like this. I was afraid of this game, but from the start we got going strong and never stopped. It's a night I'll never forget."
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MACCABI TEL AVIV
Forward
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SHELEF, GUR
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"If this is not a perfect game I don't know what is. A friend of mine called me before the game and told me that we'd win by more than 20 points and the fourth quarter would be garbage time. I told him that there was no way it was going to happen this way. i guess I was wrong. If it was up to me I'd keep this entire roster for the next season as well, but obviously it's up for the management. When I first stepped into the office of Shimon Mizrahi I promised him that I'd bring him a European Championship. So far I won two, and I sure hope this is not the last one. We jumped on them early and shot great from the first minute. We knew that Skipper is an excellent team, with excellent players and an excellent coach so we never let up. They were capable of coming back at every time but everything clicked for us because we just kept going at them. The difference between this time and the last time we played them was that there was a Euroleague trophy at stake this time so it was a totally different game for us. This atmophere is what we're used to so we could use it to our advantage"
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MACCABI TEL AVIV
Forward
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BASTON, MACEO
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"We were on them from the jump and just didn't let go. From the opening tip, our defense was the key. We were up by more than 20 at halftime and we felt like we just couldn't miss. To be ahead by 20 points at home with the support that we had we knew we couldn't let up, that it was ours. I think that we got the gitters out in our game against CSKA so we were just ready to play tonight. You could have brought the Lakers or the Spurs in here tonight and we still would have wupped them."
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MACCABI TEL AVIV
Forward
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BLUTHENTHAL, DAVID
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"This is a dream come true. I can't say it any other way, a dream come true. To have a special game like this on the most important day of the year, you cannot ask for anything better."
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SKIPPER BOLOGNA
Head Coach
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REPESA, JASMIN
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"It's difficult to say what happened, you all saw the game. After the first quarter, the game was over. In this atmosphere, it was very hard for my teams to play. I am also disappointed because I broke two records with Skipper, my team lost by 44 points and we had never got 114 points in only 40 minutes. We opened the game very badly even as I put my most experienced players in the starting five. But this atmosphere and the quality of the rival were too much for us to overcome. Congratulations to Maccabi, the team, the club, the fans and the organization of the Final Four.We had prepared the game really well and I wanted to stop their transition and fastbreak. However, they played great pick and roll and all their players did it well. I don't want to underestimate their matchup zone defense but I think it was not the key. We can lose a game, of course, but not in this way."
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SKIPPER BOLOGNA
Guard
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BASILE, GIANLUCA
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"We didn't play bad. I wish we played bad. We just didn't play at all. It was worse than having a bad game. There was only one team on the court tonight. We're proud to have arrived at this point, but it's frustrating to lose in this way. We knew they'd play well and we knew we had to stop them from doing certain things, but they never missed their shots early on. They got their confidence, their public never let up and it was over."
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SKIPPER BOLOGNA
Forward
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MOTTOLA, HANNO
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"They scored about 20 points in the first five minutes and we had a chance to come back but we were selfish. All of us. We played bad on offense. We made them look like a good defensive team with out selfishness."
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SKIPPER BOLOGNA
Guard
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POZZECCO, GIANMARCO
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"There was no team tonight. They played the perfect game. They were unbeatable tonight. The pressure actually worked in their favor. It's not true what people said before the game that we had no pressure on us. The idea that we had nothing to lose just isn't true. We lost the game tonight because all the pressure that they had on them turned out to actually be pushing them forward together. They played for each other, they played for their public, that's the pressure they had on them. I think you have to see the cup as half full in this case. We arrived here. That's an accomplishment, but it was just a hard night."
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SKIPPER BOLOGNA
Guard
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GUYTON, ARTHUR JAMES
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"There were two totally different teams out there tonight. One team played together. One team was just individuals. We didn't play together at all. Do I feel embarassed? Yeah, I feel embarassed for my team, myself, my family. I don't like to lay down and that's what we did tonight. They hit us early, and we never reacted. At hafltime, coach said he wanted guys on the floor who would compete and make it a game. They were full of guys ready to compete, but we never ever started to play."
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