David Blatt: "This is an ultimate moment in the history fo the Russian nation"
17-09-2007 09:24
David Blatt: "Khryapa was the secret of our success. Thank you first of all to my two great stars – Kirilenko and Khryapa. Both of them they are wonderful people as well as they are great players. We wanted to stay in the game the whole time. In the scouting we spoke about that first - stay close and make them feel the pressure. They felt the heat and we took advantage of it.
This is an ultimate moment in the history fo the Russian nation. It's the first championship of the new Russia. I'm very proud to be the person in charge of this historical journey. I feel very lucky to be part of history both in Russia and FIBA Europe basketball.
We did not want to double team Gasol a lot. We did doubling late after two dribbles just not to allow him to go close to the basket, but we did a great job against Calderon, and he didn't play as good as he did in the last game against us. We played a lot of match up zone and didn't allow Gasol to get the ball close to the rim. We wanted to put him on the line and it worked. Holden stopped in the last three days – Tony Parker, Sarunas Jasikevicius and Jose Calderon and people should acknowledge that."
This is an ultimate moment in the history fo the Russian nation. It's the first championship of the new Russia. I'm very proud to be the person in charge of this historical journey. I feel very lucky to be part of history both in Russia and FIBA Europe basketball.
We did not want to double team Gasol a lot. We did doubling late after two dribbles just not to allow him to go close to the basket, but we did a great job against Calderon, and he didn't play as good as he did in the last game against us. We played a lot of match up zone and didn't allow Gasol to get the ball close to the rim. We wanted to put him on the line and it worked. Holden stopped in the last three days – Tony Parker, Sarunas Jasikevicius and Jose Calderon and people should acknowledge that."
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