Despite losing the advantage, Maccabi’s dressing room was happy, like a dressing room that is 40 minutes away from a very impressive achievement. “We have one more game, but it’s not over. We have to give credit to Pau, they showed fight, but we have to focus on ourselves, watch video and understand what we can do better for the game on Thursday. Hopefully we can close the series on Thursday,” he said Bonzie Colson and tried to explain what happened to his team, “It was a struggle, they have a lot of talented players who hit big shots and you have to give them credit, we have to stick to our principles. They will make runs, but as long as we respond to their runs, we will play aggressively like we played today, that It will be good for us.”
Coulson, whose connection with the crowd has been known since the beginning of the season, talked regarding the feeling of playing in Pioneer in front of a thousand noisy fans in yellow, “The energy of this crowd, you can’t compare it. I want to thank our fans and the Serbian police who allowed them to come, it’s good that they were here and it’s good that they are here with us Also on Thursday.”
Josh Niebo who excelled said: “It felt just great to win. We were already leading by a very large margin and then they were able to come back, but as a team the most important thing is that we finished this game with the victory, even if it wasn’t pretty in some things. The biggest thing for us is the victory The key to the fourth game is to just bring ourselves to the floor and give it our all, so we just have to control our emotions and bring everything we can to the floor, we really want to thank To them for their support. They flew all the way to Belgrade and we really need them so that we can complete the task and advance to the Final Four.”
Antonios Cleveland admitted that he doesn’t know what he and his teammates will have to do once morest Kendrick Nan in the next game and said: “The last four minutes made us lose some balls, Nan made some big shots, they were desperate and got back into the game. Basketball is a game of runs, and it was a game between Two good teams that ran once morest each other.”
