Eurocup. Valencia vs. BC Khimki17 march 2015

BC Khimki defeated Valencia Basket by a margin of one point in the first Eurocup quarterfinals game, held in Spain — 76-75 (17-20, 24-15, 24-17, 11-23). The next game our team will play on Sunday, March 22, 2015 in Riga vs. VEF. The beginning is at 18.00 msk.

BC Khimki: Rice (27 + 5 assists + 2 steals), Davis (12 + 4 rebounds + 2 steals), Koponen (12 + 3 assists + 2 rebounds), Augustine (9 + 2 assists + 2 steals), Vyaltsev (7 + 7 assists + 5 rebounds), Honeycutt (5 + 7 rebounds + 3 assists), Monya (4 + 5 rebounds + 4 blocks + 3 steals + 2 assists), Sheleketo.

POST-GAME QUOTES

Rimas Kurtinaitis, BC Khimki head coach:

"First, I am glad that we won. This is a much better result than last season, when we lost here by 16 points. Of course, I am not happy with how we played the last five minutes, because they had a big advantage and finished trailing by just 1 point. We know that Valencia plays great at home and on the road and, in my opinion, the next game will start at "0-0. However, I can say that we did a good job and played with good energy. At the same time, we understand that Valencia a few days ago had a tough game against Unicaja and was not as fast as usual".

James Augustine, BC Khimki forward:

"We played a good game and now we need to win at home to get the ticket to the semifinals. It is true that we led by 13 points, but we've got a result much better than last year and now we only need to win at home. I think we can do it".