A battle between two teams with title ambitions takes place in Istanbul as Fenerbahce (6-7) welcomes Monaco (8-5) with the aim of keeping intact its perfect mark at Ulker Sports and Event Hall.
Sarunas Jasikevicius, Fenerbahce: 'Everything obviously just happened really fast'
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Regular Season
Round 14 of 34
Regular Season
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Fenerbahce has been two different teams this season: 5-0 at home and 1-7 on the road. So head coach Dimitris Itoudis will be relieved to be back in Turkey. He will look for continuing leadership from Nigel Hayes-Davis, who is the only Fenerbahce player to have started every game and played all but 100 seconds of the team's Round 13 loss at Barcelona. Monaco has won three of the last four including a hard-fought road triumph at Zalgiris last time out, when Mike James once again asserted his importance with 25 points, supported by 12 plus 4 assists from backcourt partner Elie Okobo.
Sarunas Jasikevicius, Fenerbahce head coach
"Everybody understands the quality that Monaco has. A Final Four team that is definitely already a very solid project with the team having a lot of continuity with the coach and some players. We just need to come out, give the best and hopefully try to win the game. Everything obviously just happened really fast. Hopefully we just try to give the players very minimum information and they will continue playing the way they were. And we will try to win the game."
Yam Madar, Fenerbahce player
"It’s a really big game for us. Looking forward to the next one. We’ll try to prepare in the best way we can to come and play against a great team. Offensively and defensively, they are in great shape now. They have some great players that we will need to do our best as a team to stop because it will take more than one player to stop them. We will try to give our best in front of our fans. Hopefully, they will come and support us. We need the support. We are 5-0 at home and it’s very important for us to keep our home with more victories. We hope to maintain it."