“UNICS basketball players showed willful qualities in the third game of the series with Lokomotiv-Kuban” – Eremin

basketball players UNICS disgracefully played the end of the first period and the entire second quarter of the third game of the VTB United League final with Lokomotiv Kuban but at the end the command Velimir Perasovich showed strong-willed qualities, the assistant to the president of the Kazan club told Stanislav Yeremin .

UNICS beat Lokomotiv-Kuban on Thursday (82:81) and took the series lead with a score of 2:1. The next game will take place in Krasnodar on May 13.

— The match turned out to be tense for both teams, but at the start UNICS confidently led +15 and still missed this advantage. Then Kazan lost with a difference of 10 points, but still managed to lead the match to victory. How to explain this sinusoid?

– In my opinion, this match should be divided into three parts. The first was the beginning of the game, when we defended very hard and hardly allowed our opponent to take active action with our game and took the lead by 15 points. In 7 minutes, Lokomotiv scored only 6 points, and in the future, in just 17 minutes, scored 60! And this moment is the most important for the coaches before the next game. How is it that we played this part of the match in defense so ugly? Yes, there were successful goals, and there were also difficult ones to score. But 60 points in 17 minutes is a lot.

And then the task was to return to the game. And here we must pay tribute, UNICS showed qualities of will and returned to the game, and in the end we were more successful, which means we deserved more this victory.

This victory is very important. Because it is clear that now it will be difficult for Loko to win so many matches in a row,” Eremin told a correspondent.

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