


"We knew that we had to play much better defense and we did that in the second half. We played more solid, we played more consistent, much better on the one on ones, containing their penetrations… They're a very good team on the one on ones and we were able to be solid. We delivered 27 assists and this is good. Only 11 turnovers, so this is a good balance.
"We have achieved the objective we had before this game [of home-court advantage in the playoffs]. I want to congratulate the players for this achievement, they've worked hard to make it possible. This is not the end goal, but it says a lot about the work we've done this year, with 22 wins. It's not easy to get as many wins as we have done in the league that we're playing in."
"It was not only foul trouble [that was a problem for us]. It would have been more sufficient if we got into more foul trouble, but that was not the problem. The problem was shooting threes today. They were amazing from beyond the arc. Congratulations to them.
"Congratulations to Real Madrid, they were better tonight, obviously. We were trying to stay close to the score with our offensive alignments, they hit big shots, the percentage of 72%, 8 out of 11 three-pointers they hit them, and we couldn't find answers for that."
"Like I said at halftime, it's important to come out in the second half and set the tone, because they are a great team and they have great individual players. As a team they're very dangerous and we answered all of their attacks, so I'm really proud of the team and I hope we can continue in this way. I love it here [at Real Madrid]. I hope that I will stay for as long as possible here and that I can call this my home."
(About his block on Tarik Biberovic that was ruled a foul): "It's clean, for sure. No foul. He claimed that I pushed him or whatever. No way. That's a clean block. That's a fu**ing highlight!"