


"It was all about the defense. We cannot control missing shots, as I said at halftime, but we need to focus on the things we can control, and it’s rebounding and fighting. We were lucky that we got the rhythm in the last 12 minutes of the game. I think we turned the game around, but we should have started like that, with the same attitude.
“I’m obviously happy for the result but there were two different halves, defensively. I wouldn’t even say a half, because in the first 27 minutes, we were not aggressive enough, we didn’t use the fouls smart enough. We were not consistent of what we do, but I’m very happy we found the way to turn this game over to get a win. The main thing is that we can’t worry about missing shots, like we had in the first half, but we can control about using fouls, one-on-one defense, boxing out, etc., all those things that make you be consistent. We've got to step up on those things to be able to win in the future."
"Congratulations to Maccabi. We were excellent for the first 32 minutes, but the last minutes of the last quarter cost us the game. We played excellent on offense and defense for the first three quarters, sharing the ball, playing as a team, moving the ball well. I believe that some big plays from Brown and Colson really cost us the game, but without two key players like Rubitt and Lucic, we put together a very good game and I’m just a little bit pissed off because I think we deserved more. The 6 free throws that were called on us, in front of my bench, totally changed the momentum because of our gifts I want to see now the video because it looks to me that both were not fouls, and 6 free throws in that moment is like a great push but it is what it is. My team fought, competed to the very end, we got 19 offensive rebounds without three players in the same position, 3-4, so there were a lot of good things for us except the scoreboard.”
"[Coming back like this] feels amazing. The most important thing is that we got the win. It was a great game on both ends. They made us work, and we have to appreciate that. We stepped up defensively [in the second half]; our main goal was to try to stop their main guys. They hit some though shots towards the end; sometimes it happens. But we got the win which is the most important."
"The group that was out there in the third quarter and pretty much in the majority of the fourth, with Lorenzo [Brown], John [DiBartolomeo], [Darrun] Hilliard, Bonzie [Colson], and Roman [Sorkin], they won us game. Everything was coming to the end, we bring a little bit more of defense than we did in the first half, continue rebounding the ball, and we found out a way to win. We need a lot more wins, wins like this. It was a good one, we fought it."