Playoffs
Game 5
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Partizan Mozzart Bet BelgradePAR
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Zeljko Obradovic, Partizan: 'You have to be ready for everything'
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Chus Mateo, Real Madrid head coach
"We are eager to play and we want to play a good game to close the series in our favor. We managed to get back to Madrid and we will do everything in our hands to win. We have a good mentality, tough mentality, to fight against adversity and never back down. We saw it in Belgrade and I think we will have the same attitude in this game. We just think about facing a basketball game, knowing it will be difficult and that we have some absences, but also many strengths that we will have to exploit. Both teams will be anxious because both want to be in the Final Four. We must deal with that anxiety and try to be calm."
Zeljko Obradovic, Partizan head coach
"The fifth game, there is no sixth, that's probably the problem... Someone will go to the Final Four, many things happened in this series and the fifth will decide. We go with the desire to do our best. Of course, we learned from these two games in Belgrade some lessons and talked in training to fix what went wrong. First of all we have to set up a defense on Tavares, not allow them to play in transition and to have a better flow of the ball as a response to their zone. Look at the last game how we lost, one ball, rebound, one defense can decide that. These are all factors that decide a basketball game, and you have to be ready for everything and react to the flow of the game."
Nigel Williams-Goss, Real Madrid player
"We are very motivated and eager to play this fifth game. We worked hard in Belgrade to win both game and bring the series back to Madrid. We are confident and we know we can win. If we do thing well we will have a good chance to make the Final Four. It will be a high-intensity clash and in this situation it's paramount to remain calm, as we did in Belgrade. There will be good and bad moments, and in the latter we have to stay clam and stay focused on our task."
Mathias Lessort, Partizan player
"We're going to be who we are. To play defense and be very aggressive. When we're like that, we can beat anyone on any floor. It'll depend on how aggressive we are, how much we want and how focused we are. We know what awaits us, this is a game for the Final Four. We've had two at home where we haven't been able to do what we wanted, but we have another chance."