Xavi Pascual: "We won in the end, but it was hard"
— Thanks to all the fans who were here today. This game went point-to-point for the entire 40 minutes, both teams wanted to win — mainly due to the attack, because it was hard to play in defense today. The score was sometimes not in our favor, but we always more or less controlled the course of the match. We tried to set the pace today, although Loko played great today. We got the victory in the end, but it was hard.
— Why was it hard to play defensively?
— It's just the way the game turned out. Sometimes you score more points, sometimes less. In the last match, we scored a little over 70 points, today more than 90. Each team scored more than 20 points in each quarter, and the pace was high. Sometimes it just happens, let's see how it will be in Krasnodar.
But, obviously, both teams came to this stage of the championship with physical difficulties, with injuries. Therefore, it's normal that things don't always go according to plan.
— For the second game in a row, everything is decided at the end. Will everything be unclear in Krasnodar until the last seconds, too?
— It's very hard to say, we need to recover. Every day we have new players with problems... because we lost a lot of players, others get overloaded. For example, Zakharov now has health problems.
Despite that, we will try to go there and show a good game — both defensively and offensively. If we have the opportunity to win, we will try to do it.
— Trent Frazier became the main player in the end again. Why is he doing this?
— He is a special player, he has a certain set of skills. He shows them. He has been with us for a year and a half, progressing every day. He's a great player and he's still young. He has a good future!
