“Congratulations to Olympiacos. They beat us easier than expected. They played much better today. It is like the first game like we played here, they started tough, killed us on offensive rebounds. They got every loose ball on the floor, and we never could fight to get in the game. We must change many things if we want to compete with this team, especially in this court...”

Anadolu Efes’s captain Doğuş Balbay also stated his thoughts as: “We did not come out playing hard. We allowed a lot of offensive rebounds. I think they had 18 offensive rebounds. There is no way you can win a game giving up 18 offensive rebounds. We played bad defense, we have to change something in the second game...”