Singleton: We just battled back the whole year. And now we’re going to the Final Four
Coach Ergin Ataman praised his veteran big man: “We had one excellent player, Chris Singleton. He was amazing; it was his career game in our team.”
Anadolu Efes forward Chris Singleton was the MVP in the game 5 win over Real Madrid.
Singleton tied a career-best with 26 points (8/10 FG, 7/8 FT) scored and set a career-high with a performance index rating of 38.
“I just wanted to win. Coach believed in me. He put me in the starting lineup. I just had to put my heart and my grit out there. I hit a couple of open shots. But I thank Shane [Larkin] and Vaso [Micic] for getting us here this far. I hope we can win a championship this year for Efes. We started off so bad. I remember one practice we had six people there. Everyone was hurt or something like that. And we just battled back the whole year. And now we’re here. We’re going to the Final Four. I think Shane was right. He said, ‘Look at the end.’ And here we are at the Final Four.”
Fonte: Euroleague.