“Lokomotiv-Kuban “managed to achieve a voluntary victory over UNICS due to the fact that in the second half of the match he changed the game in defense, the Krasnodar defender told Vladislav Emchenko .
Lokomotiv-Kuban defeated UNICS Kazan at home on Saturday with a score of 82:75 in a VTB League regular season match. The teams entered the big break 20 points ahead of the guests.
— UNICS led the match with confidence, it seemed that the outcome of the match was a foregone conclusion. How did Lokomotiv manage to make such a brilliant comeback?
– Thanks to team play. Both in defense and attack. And of course thanks to the support of our beloved fans. But I wouldn’t say that everything was already decided. Yes, we have problems with a good stable game. But more than once, after losing badly, we came back. So all of this is nothing new to us. In any case, we were not going to give up. During the break, we changed the game a little, adjusted our actions – we came out, started scoring points and won.
— What has changed in the game?
— In the first half we had problems scoring: we scored 26 points in total, which, of course, is very little. The second point is that on defense we allowed the opponent to score easy points in transition and make open shots. In other words, our defense was not aggressive enough. In general, they did not make the game difficult for UNICS. In the second half we came out and started defending more closely and helping each other. That is to say, they had almost no more light attacks. When we needed to, we made a mistake. Therefore, a good defense translated into a fast attack. We improved in all areas – the result is on the scoreboard,” Yemchenko told the correspondent.
Lokomotiv-Kuban won its sixth consecutive victory and occupies 4th place in the ranking. UNICS is located one line above.
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Source : MatchTV
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