Anadolu Efes head coach Ergin Ataman: “Congratulations to Valencia. They put character on the field. It’s very difficult to play at this level in a league like the Euroleague without your main point guards, where the two main point guards were not on the field. They stayed on the field with their aggressive defense and emotions and tried to win the game in the last quarter. They succeeded. Until the last quarter, we were in control of the game, but we stopped being aggressive in the last quarter. A big loss for us, a big win for Valencia. We haven’t been playing good basketball in the last two or three games. This situation existed at the beginning of the season and we solved it. I hope that will change. “We lost our last three away games in the same way. We left the game in the last five minutes. We need to work on this situation within ourselves.”
