After the Eurocup game "Spartak" - "Spirou basket" the head coaches of the teams gave their commentaries about the match.
Zvi Sherf (head coach, Spartak): "It was very important for us to win. We played very bad in Spain last week and we lost a little bit of our confidence. We worked all week to try to bring back our confidence. We had 18-19 minutes that we played good, but still during 20 minutes we made many mistakes. When we led by 16 points, we needed to make the right decisions. You see in the third quarter we had 28 points in offense, but in the second and fourth quarter we played very bad in offense. We have to work on this and we aim not to have ups and downs in our game in defense and in offense. From tomorrow morning we are starting to think about our game in the Russian League with Dynamo. This is our main target now. After Friday we will start to think about our next game with Charleroi. We'll try to play a better game next week. I know exactly our bad points and our good points and we will try to solve our problems. It's not easy".

Giovanni Bozzi (head coach, Spirou Basket): "It's a difficult competition for us. It's easy to find excuses after the game. We started today with four injured players. The guys fought all 40 minutes of the game. That may be the positive point. If you looked at the statistics, you've seen we were not good in three-points shots and in free throws. Spartak was much better than we were. To have a chance to be competitive, we have to have better shooting percentages. We had a goal not to let Spartak dominate in rebounds. And we solved this problem maybe except for some rebounds by Suton in the end of the game. And we tried to control the tempo of the game, but we were not good in this aspect. We have good fans and I think people will come to our game with Spartak next week."


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