“First of all the number one thing is not to underestimate our opponent because they are a good team”, said coach Giannis Sfairopoulos. “We need to be focused and to be ready to play one more tough game because they will not come here just to play the game. We don’t treat Hapoel as individuals, we treat them as a team because this is a team that plays really good together, they have 8-9 players in their rotation that each one of them can create problems, we saw that in the last game that they stepped up so they have players that in any case if we are not ready to defend them totally or together then they will make great problems, so we need to be focused on how to follow our plan tactically, defending all the good parts of their game – offensively and for our offense to execute smart, and to read what they will do on defense”. 

“We played well so far this series”, said Jake Cohen. “We’re confident that what we can do in the past two games we can do in game three we have some things to improve on for sure but how other people see the game – that doesn’t affect us at all. Any game that we get to play at home I think we feel more comfortable, the fans give us a great boost of energy so it should help us tomorrow. I think we’re playing well right now we’re doing a lot of good things together on both sides of the floor, I’m happy with how we’re progressing. I think you can see that some of the things that we struggled in the regular season we sort of gotten better at that and we’ll continue to get better”.