PLAZA, JOAN
Unicaja Malaga
"we came here knowing that Efes still has enough of a team to keep competing in this championship. After we saw their games against CSKA and Fenerbahce, we came here absolutely humble and knowing that we had only won one game. We needed to give our best, and and that's what we tried to do from the first quarter. We came in tough, we began quite serious, controlling the rhythm and even our averages were good at the beginning. But after that we suffered too much against their offensive rebounding, especially with Stimac grabbing five offensive rebounds in our zone. And even if we tied the game before halftime, our beginning of the third quarter - with not bad shots but probably bad average and bad chances for coming back on defense, to make a good defense - we let them get a run. I don't know if we were losing by 8 or 10 points. The most important thing was we didn't give up, we were still fighting until we were able to tie. I think in the last quarter we changed the rhythm. Our shots started to go inside from two, from three and even from one. Only our turnovers did not let us to break the game finally. We're happy for the victory of course, especially knowing that Efes can wake up at any moment of this championship."