Semifinals, Game 2: Pregame quotes

Check out what the protagonists are saying ahead of the BKT EuroCup Semifinals

Friday, March 28: Game 2

Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv vs. Valencia Basket (18:30 CET)

Valencia Basket head coach Pedro Martinez

"Surely with the environmental factor [Hapoel] will have more energy, surely it will help them, but well, we have to think about what is ours, what depends on us. And be prepared for a tough environment, but in the end it is a basketball game, we must not take it out of there. Basketball is always about adaptation, the other day we scored 91 points, hopefully we will score 91 again, and the way we do it, if we run more, run less, shoot more from the outside or shoot less, in the end you have to adapt and be prepared for any circumstance. We are also prepared for them to change things with respect to the first game, we are also going to do the same, and that's it. Small details will surely make the difference. There are always details, nothing revolutionary, nothing very different from what we usually do, but well, for both teams there are certainly things in their tactical baggage that you save for one day, then you put them in the next day, and even more so in these matches that are played in such a short time. It's not something new, but there are things that you've had in previous matches, and well, I'm sure they're going to do it and we're going to do it too. We are only thinking about this match, we are not thinking about anything else, we have to live exclusively in the present, and the present is to play a good game tomorrow and try to qualify."

Dreamland Gran Canaria vs. Bahcesehir College Istanbul (21:00 CET)

Jaka Lakovic, Dreamland Gran Canaria head coach

"I think the team is doing well. We traveled all day yesterday. So far I don't have all the information from the physiotherapists. We will see how the team is, but I think everyone should be ready to play tomorrow. Above all, we have to improve our defensive rebounding, because they hurt us a lot there. They grabbed twenty offensive rebounds, they hurt us a lot, and they scored 20 second-chance points. On offense we have to improve our reads on their switch defense, where we got stuck. With that, along with the things we've done well and can do better, we should be fine."

Miquel Salvo, Dreamland Gran Canaria forward

"We knew it was a long series, and we are sure it will be 120 minutes [in total] because we are sure that with our fans, with a lot of people, we will have the enthusiasm and desire to play a good game. We want to force a Game 3 which I think we deserve because of what we've been through: all the trips, the hours away from our families, the effort we've made, the early mornings we've had... I think we deserve to level this series and go back to Istanbul with the pressure on them."