Rubén Burgos and Alba Torrens post J5 EuroLeague Women at BC Polkowice quotes

07/12/2022

Coach Rubén Burgos assessed after the game that “I think we played a game in gusts, partials… partly our responsibility. At times I think we have been able to do a little more in defense, some shots, knowing as we did that we were playing against a very good attacking team, especially on their court, with good shooters from position 4 to position 1, even inside Mavunga has punished us from the shot of three. At the break we tried to answer that with a little more intensity, with a little more defense that we had already worked on in the previous training sessions. The team has had faith and when it has been worse, 18 points down, I think we have known how to react by finding points in transition that always gives us energy and reading well our advantages that were being the paint, especially with Marie Gülich. I think that when we had obtained a non-definitive income, especially against a team with these good percentages, their shooters have returned with a shot of three in transition, with their player in a position of 4 open Spanou, which I think has punished us a lot and at the same time end has been a toss up. Sometimes it falls on your side in the success, in being lucky in the launch as we saw last week or sometimes decisions that fall on the opposite side. Today has been like that, I think we have to be strong, believe in our work, see the positive things we have done and the mistakes that depended on us, especially in defense and that we can improve. Our accuracy will be better in home games, today we have had well-developed situations both under the basket and in open shots, especially in the first quarters that we could have scored, but we have to stay with the positive things and what we can control. I think that in the end, Polkowice is a team that is fighting to be in the Top 8 and we will try to raise this income in the second leg at Fonteta”.



Alba Torrens commented that “first of all, congratulations to Polkowice who played a very good game. Right now it's hard for us because of course we wanted to get this win. I think we have to appreciate what we've done, coming back 18 points with the energy we've put into defense but then playing well in attack. Now it is difficult to reflect when you have just finished, but we have to stay with the things that we have done well, reflect on the things that we can and know that we can improve. We are going to move on and think about the next game”.


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