Maccabi’s head coach Giannis Sfairopoulos after the 77:87 away win: “The third period established our win”. DeAndre Kane: “We want to dominate the league”
“Most of the time we controlled the game with good defense”, said coach Sfairopoulos. “I think that at the beginning of the game and how we finished the first period and although in the second period we gave up some easy points, the third period established our win because how we performed defensively we had a lot of steals,
fast breaks and easy baskets on transition and we played smart until the end, we kept our lead around 10 points and we won the game”.“I was really happy to be back here with my teammates”, said DeAndre Kane who delivered a tremendous defensive effort. “I missed the last three weeks, I know I played our last EuroLeague game but it felt good, I wanted to take on the challenge against Crawford, we all know he’s one of the best scorers we’ve seen, especially coming from America, he can drop 40 to 50 points in a hurry so for me I just wanted to make the shots tough for him and try to compete for every possession. I prepare the same way I really don’t look at any player and think I’m gonna do this different for me
it’s just follow the game plan and stay focus, guys professional they are going to score, they are going to make shots I just make it as tough as I can for them and hope we get the win”.“We want to win every game”, Kane concluded. “We can go undefeated that’s what we want to do, we want to dominate the league, that’s our goal but we know there are a lot of talented teams around Israel and as long as we come out and take care of business like coach says, don’t pick and choose who you want to play, not in the EuroLeague and not in the Israeli league play every game 100% we’re giving ourselves a great chance to win games”.
