Head coach Dejan Radonjić summed up the decisive semifinal game
— Congratulations to UNICS on the win in this game and congratulations to them on winning this series. About this game, you know, it's results, 64:55. So, I doubt if it was a good game to watch, but they always played better than us tonight. And they won. Defensively we were pretty solid, 64 points, but offensively, with 28% for two and 53% for three throws and 36% for three points and 17 turnovers. It's not easy to win against a really good team. I have huge respect for them. So now we need to analyze what we did in seven games. It was tough series, very tough you know if you compare the first game and this game it was 90:90 first game after four quarters. Today it's 64:55.
If you have this kind of schedule, tough games, very physical games every two-three days, it's not easy to play especially in this our circumstances. Some players they were not 100 percent ready to play. Last two games Johnny Juzang was not with us, he was in a great shape. Now we need to think about games against Loko. And of course I wish them all the best in games against CSKA.
— Zenit had great defense on both ends of the court. So it was your plan?
— It's always our plan to play good defense if it's possible. But it is not enough to win the game. If you play good defense, it's good opportunity. But you have to play good enough offense to win.
— What happened after halftime? It seems that team was not in a good shape after halftime.
— Look, if you analyze the first half, you know, you can see first 10 minutes they played really better. We did so many mistakes, so many turnovers. Of course offensively it was not good.
Some minutes it was a little bit better, but then, like I said in the beginning as I said our defense was pretty solid all 40 minutes, but with this percentage and with these turnovers and with this, so many not good enough things you know offensively you cannot win against such a good team like UNICS. So 28 percent for two points you know so and 50 percent for free throws.
If you analyze all other games you can see some very important things. You know for us against UNICS it was very important you know to have easy baskets, fast play points. Today, even with this kind of defense, we didn't score too much against them. It was very, very important. We had, I think, the third game with 40 points, fast play points and early attack points. Today, it was not. With this percentage, it's not easy to do.
And then, you know, during the third quarter it was 45:39, but last one-two minutes of third quarter, they changed things and then this three point shot by Paris Lee, and they made some kind of advantage, and then after that, it was a different picture on the court.
