MBA (Moscow) – Zenit (St. Petersburg)
Place: Russia, Moscow, Basket Hall Moscow
Series Score: 1-2
Vasily Karasev, MBA head coach:
– Zenit showed great basketball from the first to the last minute and unfortunately all our players were not ready for it. When you score 6 points in a quarter, it’s hard to speak about winning. We’re not thinking about the result of the fourth quarter now. Every time I tell the guys that they have to go out there and just show what they can do. Especially at home, where a lot of people come to see them. We will try to improve in the fourth game.
Xavier Pascual, Zenit head coach:
– The result does not say that the game was easy. I must put respect to MBA – to the players, the coaching staff. They showed us in the first game that they will punish for mistakes. This time we played great defense and offense. The fourth game won’t be easy – every game starts with a 0-0, anything can happen.
