Lokomotiv Kuban was on the pitch as a tight-knit team, and that became key to Krasnodar’s success in the first game of the United League final series with UNICS stressed Loko defender Vladislav Yemchenko in a conversation with .
UNICS lost to Krasnodar on Saturday with a score of 76:88. The second game of the final series up to four wins will take place in Kazan on May 8. Watch the live broadcast on the channel, sportbox.ru and matchtv.ru websites at 2:30 p.m. Moscow time.
– It’s good that we won, it was not an easy match. Both teams entered the game tired. There was no energy here that we and UNICS showed in the semi-final series. It turns out that we had a lot of games in a short time.
Yes, we fell somewhere in the third quarter: the opponent was leading 8-0 in this segment. But the coach took a time out and reassured us. He said that they should act without panicking, that we should not retreat and that we should also attack. Well, that’s all, after the timeout we went out, we stabilized the game and little by little, we started to play our basketball both in defense and in attack. We got an advantage, kept it and increased it in the end.
– How did Lokomotiv overcome the opponent?
– Crew. Losing in the third quarter, we could get angry, we could start yelling at each other, but no, on the contrary, the difficult times brought us even closer. Support from teammates, coaching staff and fans energizes all of us. We hold together like a fist, and this team spirit helped us in this match, and I hope it will help in the next matches.
– Do you intend to win the Belov Cup this season?
– We’re high. But at each stage of the series, we think of a next game. Now we rejoiced in the locker room, it’s very good that we won, and now we are thinking about the next game. It is clear that we want to become champions, but the second game is ahead of us, that we have to play at least as well, but actually better: we have something to add, and then we will see,” Yemchenko told a correspondent. of . .
Source : MatchTV
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