Dejan Radonjić on the result of Game 5 of the semifinals in Kazan
— Now it's 3-2 for us. So we need to do everything to be ready for the next game. It was very tough, very physical game. Second half they played really tough defense, very aggressive defense, counter defense. We lost control offensively. They won. So as I said we gonna talk about this game to do everything as possible to be ready for the next matchup.
— Can you talk more about the second half? What happened there?
— As I said defense, counter defense, tough defense. This is the reason why we lost control. So many mistakes offensively what is most important.
— Did the opponent make any major adjustments compared to the previous game?
— Every game was different, almost every game. If you compare the last game, we can discuss so many things and this is the reason they won today. They played extremely aggressive defensively the second half and that's it.
— Bingham and Reynolds combined for 40 points tonight. Were Zenit players unprepared for their level of aggression?
— I talk about aggressive defense. After the aggressive defense in the first half it was a little bit different. We were in the game but after three turnovers they scored ten points, easy baskets. In the second half it was more. Okay we did some mistakes but they are very good players. So in some games it's like this and in some games it's different. They did what they did.
— Georgy Zhbanov said it felt like after Game 4 the team thought the series was already over. How did you prepare your team mentally? Did you tell them to forget about the series score?
— Who said?
— Georgy said it seemed like the team maybe thought the series was already over after Game 4...
— It was probably you know. Such a good team as UNICS did many good things this season. They were all season better than us. We are in good momentum right now in this playoff but maybe it's some kind of confidence. Okay we can't discuss about this probably of course.
Same time you know they played better than us , not to talk about some things like probably thought... They played better than us. This is the reason. To talks about something else is not serious.
— What can you say about Georgy Zhbanov’s condition? Did he suffer any injury during the game?
— Which injury? Who is injured? Zhora is okay. Maybe you know something better than I (smiles).
