OBRADOVIC, ZELJKO
Fenerbahce Istanbul
"First of all, I want to congratulate Maccabi because they played a very good game, very aggressive, which is Maccabi's style. They tried to run and scored a lot of points in transition. We were not able to stop their transition game. We talked about this and try to prepare ourselves for that, and a lot of these points came after really bad turnovers that my players did. To really understand the game, we saw the statistics and found over there that we had 13 fouls and Maccabi shot, if I remember well, 15 free throws. This means that every foul led to free throws - this is how you use fouls. A team with experienced players, that played a lot of games in the last two years, doing this kind of games. Nothing to do - the final result is let's say correct for us, only 10 points, after how things were in the second half, it could have been a bigger loss. Congratulations again to Maccabi. It is always very nice to play over here because people understand basketball very well. We knew that Andrew Goudelock would not play the game. It would sound like an excuse if I say Bogdan Bogdanovic didn't play. I believe that everybody in our team understands how important Bogdanovic is for us and I don't like to talk about a player who is not present. We have other players and Maccabi was in the same situation with Goudelock."