Basketball player of the Lokomotiv-Kuban Shcherbenev club – about the victory over UNICS: “We managed to close Macon”

basketball players Lokomotiv Kuban managed to cope with Kazan UNICS defender Daryl Macon in the match of the second stage of the VTB United League, the player of the Krasnodar team told Alexander Chcherbenev.

The railway workers beat UNICS on the road with a score of 103:70 on Thursday and broke Kazan’s nine-game winning streak. Macon scored five points with one of seven shots.

– Before the match, everyone considered UNICS to be the favourites, and certainly no one expected Kazan to suffer such a big defeat at home. What is the reason for such a great success of Loko?

– We have now gained momentum and the victory over Zenit has given us confidence that we are moving forward in good spirits. Therefore, we were fully tuned to win this game. We felt during the match that the game was ours, and that we could and we had to win. Of course, there was a sediment of the defeats of UNICS in the matches of the first stage of the championship. So today they returned the favor. It’s good that everyone played well and won so big,” Shcherbenev told .

– What was the key factor in the victory?

– I think the game plan worked: we stopped Macon, who scored 31 points in the last game against Nizhny Novgorod. We focused on it and we succeeded. Also prevents other players from completing attacks. Additionally, they played aggressively defensively. And one more factor: we are a young team. Our advantage is that we run.

In the next match, Krasnodar will play with Nizhny Novgorod on February 7, the Kazan team will meet Moscow club MBA on the road on the same day.

Watch live broadcasts of VTB United League matches on the federal channel and other holding channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.

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