Ettore Messina: We were saved by a great offensive rebound by Kyle Hines

Ettore Messina: “After a bad start, I think we had a very good second quarter and a very good third quarter. It is not easy to play here after Panathinaikos lost two days ago, so they surely wanted to shorw their character, as they did. Then in the fourth quarter, we had, I think, a 10-12 point lead but in the last 4 or 5 minutes, we just complicated our lives tremendously. We stopped moving the ball, forced situations and turned it over. And we were saved by a great offensive rebound by Kyle Hines. Congratulations, anyway, to my team because it is never easy to win on the road. I don’t know if we are already in the playoffs, but we are very close, which was our main goal starting the season. And best of luck to Panathinaikos, to its coach and players.”