Sasa Obradovic called the loss against Crvena Zvezda a shame and said that no fans wanted to see Monaco's team the way it was in the game.
AS Monaco lost their second game in the last three matchups, and the team's head coach, Sasa Obradovic, was visibly disappointed with the way his players carried themselves against Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade.
| Player of the Game | |
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EFF
38
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| Filip Petrusev | |
| Points | 25 |
| Accuracy | 6-9 |
| Rebounds | 7 |
| Assists | 1 |
Crvena Zvezda's Filip Petrusev played the best game of his EuroLeague career, scoring 25 points, grabbing 7 rebounds, drawing 11 fouls, and collecting 38 PIR, tying the season-high of all players in the EuroLeague.
"Very simple. One sentence. This is a shame for us. This is a shame. The way we played, the way we walked..." Obradovic said in the post-game interview on EuroLeague TV.
"This is not the team I want to see, nobody here [wants to see such a team]. Without passion, without love, you cannot win the game," he declared.
This was the second win in a row for the Serbian team. With five wins and four losses, both Monaco and Crvena Zvezda share 8th spot in the EuroLeague standings.
"I'm really ashamed of this game. Apologies to the fans for this shameful approach to the game," Obradovic continued in the press conference. "You [may] have two reasons: you are too good, arrogant, disrespecting the opponent, or you maybe don't have the quality to do the things on the best EuroLeague level. But the third thing always remains - you can fight. You can fight for every ball. This always remains. This is what you see every year on our team, that's why they respect us.
"For the second game [in a row], Paris and this game, it's the same thing - walking... When guys are doing layups, nobody's there to defend under the basket. This is really, really, really shameful for me as a coach. And I don't really know who we're going to go with this. I really don't know how we're going to go with this.
"We talk about tactics here. I first have to congratulate Crvena Zvezda for the win. But this approach to a EuroLeague game... How many players do you rest in a risky game vs Dijon to lose to have the full power to jump on someone and play strong. How many rebounds, how many fights ready to go for a rebound... Not to give a hundred points just like that. On EuroLeague level! To have the fouls we have on EuroLeague level not spent or [committing] shooting fouls... It's not even close to the big level," he said.
Obradovic revealed that players looked positive to improve after the loss against Paris Basketball last week. However, the coach was even more disappointed now.
"After the Paris game, [we had a] meeting with players, great meeting, and to have a meeting again... This is for a meeting again that we're going to jump, that we're going to be strong, and then you have this. I'm ashamed as a coach one more time. Maybe I could not warn [them] enough. Maybe. I take this responsibility."
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