“First of all, I congratulate Pınar Karşıyaka. They have played  tough and willing today. We, have given the match we could have win – at the end of the normal duarion – as a gift to our rival. We are sorry that we have lost. We have given our rival 19 iffensive rebounds. This was the key for our lost.”

Anadolu Efes’s captain Doğuş Balbay also stated his thoughts at the conference as: “We are wounded on the way to the play off in the İzmir away game. We would like to go to the play offs with the highest score we can. We cannot win while giving 100 points to rival team. We will concentrate better and will play better in the next matches...”