ATAMAN, ERGIN
Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul
“We started the game bad. In the first quarter, we missed a lot of shots, made turnovers, and we lost control of the game. That was not our plan. After the first quarter I think we played better than Baskonia. We started playing good defense with our switching man-to-man. Offensively, in the first half we scored only 2 of 15 three-point shots. In the second half, we continued what we did in the second quarter. We came back and took the lead, but I think tonight we missed our regular shots. We missed 24 three-point shots, with Jon Diebler and Vlado Micov making only 1 of 12 shots, and we stayed at only 62 points. Congrats to Baskonia. It was not a spectacular game. We missed shots and gave up a lot of offensive rebounds, and lost the game.”