Akkaya said, “Cukurova Basketball Club has an organization that can play with anyone in Europe right now. The only thing we will do as a team is to show good basketball on the field. If we can play as well as the organization, the European cup will come to our city.”
Akkaya evaluated the Lointek Gernika match, which they won 69-40 in the last 32 rounds of the FIBA Women’s European Cup (EuroCup Women). Expressing that they were happy to go to the top round, Akkaya said, “The score in the first match was a bad, unreal, artificial score. We saw it on the field yesterday. We saw what would happen when we defended. Our team fought really well. Maybe we got tired in the last period, but our players played to protect the score. They did very well in defense,” he said.
Akkaya, who thanked the Mersin fans and club management for putting great pressure on the opponent, said, “We have to thank the Mersin audience and our president who made the organization. Çukurova Basketball Club has an organization that can play with anyone in Europe right now. All we have to do as a team is to play well on the field. reflect basketball. If we can play as well as the organization, the European cup will come to our city,” he said.
The experienced coach also noted the following about getting wet by his players in the dressing room at the end of the match:
“It’s nice that the team shared this with me. It’s a sign that we are a team. I didn’t expect something like this. It’s nice that my players did this, it made me happy. We are on the way to becoming a better team.”
Mustafa ERCAN/MERSIN, (DHA)
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