


"First of all, to the players, an amazing atmosphere. Lately, we are practicing good. We are focused, you can hear just the ball and the calls, and we are healthy. It was also a day you can make some spot shots or don't make them, but as soon as we are creating good shots, and we did create great shots today with 27 assists. Virtus is a great team; we made them look like that also because of the defensive effort, allowing 14 and 15 points in the first two quarters. Good luck to them the rest of the season.
"The players are very experienced, I talk with them a lot of times. They know we have only 40 minutes to share and we have certain roles to fulfill and everybody is having a concrete role what he is doing on the team. We found a way. We also kept working hard when we were not playing the best. We are the same team, we kept being persistent on what we are doing, we kept believing that we have potential. Today we played a brilliant game, yes. Is it going to be every game like that? No. We have to find other ways to win games and we need to find our identity. And our identity was to be humble and to play for each other, and today we did that."
"We have to re-watch the game, learn from mistakes and especially try to understand why, when the opponent put such a high level of physicality, we did not respond in the same way. Congrats to Fenerbahce, they played great. They shot the ball excellent, they moved the ball very well, they played a very strong defense. There was only one team really playing well on the floor tonight, congrats to them."
"We played the right offenses, we followed the game plan. People made open shots. Got to give credit to the coaching staff and players for making the open shots. I am good, we are winning, can't be happier than that. We are just trying to take it game by game. Obviously, games like these give us confidence, but we know the next game is not going to be as easy. So, we've got to stay together and just do the right things."
"I know everything starts with our defense. When we defend then we have easier shots, open shots, on offense. That's the key. Tonight we were getting stops, we were defending, and then you get confidence and the shots are falling in. We feel good, offensively we are feeling good as well. We are sharing the ball, we had 27 assists, so that's what makes me happy. We were getting a lot of open shots in transition. We are staying true to our routine, every day in our practice we are doing the same thing, actually a lot of similar shots you saw tonight in transition. We just have to stay humble, stay on the ground. A lot of new players are coming, players from injuries as well, so we just have to stay together and keep playing like this."