The head coach Lokomotiv Kuban Alexander Sekulich admitted that the Krasnodar club’s big problem was the slow start to the third game against UNICS as part of the VTB United League Final Series.
The meeting in Krasnodar ended with the score 82:81 in favor of the guests from Kazan.
— A very big problem for us was a slow start. UNICS started aggressively and retired long term. For a long time we couldn’t give an adequate answer, but in the end we still found the strength to come back. Unfortunately, in the end, we made several mistakes, which resulted in a defeat. We made some good changes in our game from the previous game, but we couldn’t maintain the required level of concentration until the final siren.
We gave the decisive shot to Jaylen Burford, but UNICS played very aggressively in this episode, it was not possible to put a good screen on Jaylen. As a result, he put the ball too high. I had to improvise – alas, this did not lead to success.
I want to express my support for Okaro White. I hope he will recover for the next game. He lost 4 teeth all at once today – I’ve never seen this before in basketball – the league’s press service quoted Sekulich.
Velimir Perasovich, head of UNICS, congratulated the team on their victory.
– Congratulations to my players – they had a great game today. Loko have a very good playoff, they have a great coach, so I had no doubt that they would fight with all their might at all positions. And I’m very happy with the result. Loko plays very aggressively. They very quickly liquidated our gap created in the first quarter. It was very difficult for us to stop their run, but by winning very important rebounds and therefore stopping their counter-attacks, we were able to do it. Of course, we would have preferred to win games less nervously, but I will note the character of our guys, especially Vince Hunter,” added Perasovich.
The fourth game will also take place in Krasnodar and will take place on Saturday, May 13 at 2:00 p.m. (Moscow time). It will be possible to follow the match live on the channel, as well as on the sportbox.ru and matchtv.ru sites. The broadcast begins at 1:30 p.m.
Source : MatchTV
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