2024-04-25 01:54:53
The Turkish giants beat the French club 95:91 (15:26, 22:20, 23:15, 21:20, 14:10) and took home advantage from Monaco.
“I believe that psychologically we have to be ready for four more matches like this,” Shar said in a televised interview after the match. – We are playing against a very good team that has clear thoughts on the field. It’s very hard to knock them out of their combos.
Huge respect to my players. Most of them spent a lot of time on the field. The key to not losing a game like this is avoiding mistakes, rebounds and shots…thank goodness our shots fell in overtime. We created them ourselves, but this is just the beginning.”
Nigel Hayes-Davis scored 19 points (5/8 doubles, 2/5 triples, 3/3 penalty), 7 rebounds and finished the game with 23 utility points in 39 minutes.
N. Hayes-Davis, who became the most useful player of the match, added that he and “Fenerbahce” almost didn’t play.
“We won the match, but at the same time we almost didn’t lose it,” the striker explained in a television interview. – We missed penalties, we gave up too many offensive rebounds, we committed about 10 stupid fouls when we were out of fouls and they hit free throws. We have a lot to learn and we have to be ready not to make those mistakes on Friday.
Overtime games are an incredible gift for the fans. The first minutes of extra time decide the winner. We had to defend and make shots, which we did. After you take the lead, your opponents force events on the pitch and try to get back into the game. Ideally, you can close out the game with free throws, but we didn’t do that.”
Fenerbahce took the lead in the quarter-final series (1/0). The second match of the series in Monaco will take place on Friday at 20:00. Lithuanian time. You can follow the progress of the match on the website lrytas.lt.
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