"It was a very interesting match. Our biggest problem was losing 14 balls. This is too much for a team playing in the main league."
Idman.biz reports that this was said by the head coach of Neftchi Anar Sariyev.
The specialist, who lost to Khazri 84:86 in the 10th round of the Azerbaijan Basketball League, said that the problems in the team affected the result: "Kamran Mammadov took part in only three training sessions after the injury and has not fully recovered yet. Michael Carter is injured and will be back in training in a day or two. James had problems with tickets and had to stay in England for two days. On the day of the match, he reached Baku in the morning and appeared without training. I really liked our new player Ulas in defense. He showed perseverance and played very well. As he participated in only two or three training sessions, he could not fully adapt to the game in attack. In the course of the match, we fell behind with a difference of 17 balls. Of course, this was a huge difference, and I can't say exactly why. My team seemed to stop, did not want to play. We started pressing in the last five minutes to get the game back and it was won somewhere, but we lost the ball again in the attack."
Sariyev said that some wrong decisions of his basketball players played a role in the defeat: "After pressing, we should have thrown the ball under the basket more. We made two 3-pointers and I think it wasn't right, we should have waited a little bit. To reduce the difference, it was necessary to score more points from under the basket. Every mistake can lead the team to defeat. If we had made 17 out of 19 free throws, not 13, we could have finished the game with a victory, or if we had not thrown the ball under the basket and not thrown the ball under the basket in attacks where we made 4 mistakes without 4 mistakes, those 4 points could have brought us victory. I mean, my players fought hard for the last 4 minutes and even though we were losing by 17 points, we could have won the match. I talked with the team, we will try not to get discouraged and please our fans by showing a better game in the next rounds."
It should be noted that after 10 rounds, Neftchi, which has 16 points, is ranked 4th in the tournament table.
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