Andrea MAZZON
Avtodor head coach:
“It was an amazing feeling tonight and I would love to say thank you to the people who supported us at the game. Thank you because everybody after the game came to us saying how much they love the team spirit and the quick way of basketball we play. That is such great compliments.

About the game I think BC Samara played really good and solid game, putted a lot of pressure on us. Of course we rotated 14 players and for 3 of them tonight it was the first time to play at such level against players with a lot of VTB experience. But that's how you grow up.

We started the game with 3 Russian players because we must develop them and because I believe if we got patience we'll build a solid core for the Avtodor future.

We managed to push the game into 97 possessions, and that's a really high number. But it is also true we made some mistakes. That's why however there are preseason games for.

It is always nice to win and although I made a lot of experiments tonight I am really happy about the team. We need to get better in rebound and individual defense because if we don't make stops or we don't rebound the ball we can't run our style of game.

The communication and questions’ time with fans after the game was really nice and I promise we'll bring a lot of victories to them.”