

"If talking about points, it was a similar game like the one in Madrid. They are a very talented team, they can score in very different ways, but I believe we deserved to win tonight. Congratulations to my players, and of course, these incredible people."
"Real is one of the favorites to win the EuroLeague, a team that already has home-court advantage in the playoffs. It is a team with a lot of quality, and they demonstrated it tonight in some moments. It was important to play with big motivation, be more motivated than Real, and I believe we did that. It is the nicest thing for a coach when he looks at the stats and how balanced the scoring is. That is the proof that we wanted to play as a team, and we did that tonight in most of the situations. We had some trouble to defend their transition, and they shot a lot of free throws. We have two more games left, both very important. Tavares is the most dominant player in his position, and we had trouble with him early. He is a very smart player. He was finding teammates, too, and all Real Madrid players are capable to score from outside. But we never wanted to help too much against him. That is not easy, but what the game of basketball comes to is that sometimes you are in disadvantage on one end, but in advantage on the other. And Smailagic used his advantage offensively, too."
"It is not easy to win here in Belgrade. Partizan is playing great at this moment. And this chemistry made them play with energy. An they played very good. Congratulations to them. They deserve to go to the playoffs."
"We tried to play from the beginning with good discipline, and for moments we lost that discipline because Partizan played good defense. For two or three minutes in the second quarter, we did not understand their toughness, and we retreated a little bit. Partizan got advantage at halftime, but we were able to come back and we were very close to come back into the game and to fight until the end. But in some crucial moments Partizan made good plays, had good success on its shots, and they deserved to win today. "
"Playoffs is one of the main goals of the season. It is just one step away. We have two more games to play, one tough one on the road, and one at home to finish the season on a good note. We've got to stay focused. We will celebrate tonight as usual after a win, and then we focus on the next one. We did a great job like a team. If we play like this, as a team, we have a lot of weapons. Where everybody is dangerous and they don't know where the danger is coming from. We had six in double digits. And if we play like this, we can beat anybody in Europe. We've got to keep playing like that."
"It was a much-needed win. Obviously we had to win this game; it was a convincing win for us. We are just trying to get ready for the playoffs at this point. We still want to finish the season strong, we've got two games left, and keep it going. We all gave effort on both ends. That was going to be needed against this Madrid team and we handled our business. Our goal is to go 2-0 the last two games."
"We know how things were going to be. We tried, but I think we stopped [playing] our game too much and we weren't fast enough. Against this team, you have to attack them and be fast. It is a difficult court and they have the best coach of all-time. It is very difficult to play tactical against him, but we have to pull out these wins no matter what. We have locked the home-court advantage but we have to give more to our team, for our team chemistry, so that we can win all games until the end."