“This final was an unexpected moment. I want to give congratulations and big thanks to my players who competed until the last second so that we can do it. It was difficult to prepare the game. I didn’t expect final game pressure. But it definitely was there. The first quarter we scored 7 points with 7 turnovers. Turnovers killed us. We knew that it was going to be very difficult for us to score 80 points to stay with CSKA. We cut Barcelona to 64 points, so the goal was to cut CSKA from an 85-point average to 70-75 points. The offense was very confused. When we started to play faster with the younger players, it was better. I told them to continue this. I remember when it was a 19-point game, I said: ‘Let’s go guys, you can beat them. It’s our game.’ We got it down to 13 points after three quarters. I didn’t expect an experienced player like Siskauskas to miss free throws. CSKA was very big in the loss. Everyone congratulated us. I would like to thank the fans and the Euroleague. "

“The fourth quarter is difficult to explain. I was ready at one point to call a timeout after 2 free throws. Spanoulis is a very big target of defenses. But Spanoulis was great, he was very unselfish. I have to praise Acie Law, who played this game on his own responsibility. We are very lucky that Spanoulis was the leader of the team. But all of my players were very hungry.”