KATSIKARIS, FOTIS
Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem
"We all understand how important his game was for us. We had a very bad start in the competition with three losses and a lot of up and downs in our games. And the worst problem we had was our defense; we were receiving almost 90 points, which is a huge number if you want to compete and win games and to be a winning team. Also we had a loss in our league with not playing very good defense last Sunday. This was the game for us to react. To react and stay alive. And to change how everybody who is playing against us is easy to score. We changed our defense. I really, really like that we insisted until the last second playing hard on defense, missing layups, missing free throws. And we know that in basketball psychology can hurt you a lot when you miss some easy baskets and have to run back and pay defense. So I hope this will be a start for us. I hope that everybody on the team understands what we have to do."