Ivan Tkachenko: "We completely controlled the game in the fourth quarter"

Іван Ткаченко: Повністю контролювали гру в четвертій чверті

Ivan Tkachenko, the forward of the National basketball team of Ukraine and a player of BC "Prometey", in a short post-match comment to the press service of the FBU, evaluated the performance of our team in the winning match of EuroBasket-2022 against Italy (84:73).


"We just fought for each other. In the third quarter, we came out very focused on defence, scored everything, picked everything up, shut down their best players. Melly only scored 2 points today, he didn't dominate the paint at all - our big men did a very good job. On the perimeter, we closed everything we could. Of course, in the first quarter, we made a lot of mistakes - we moved away from the shooters, and they scored everything. In the third quarter, we set everything right, and in the fourth quarter we completely controlled the game.


My game? The coaches will evaluate my game, and I am satisfied that I scored from the top and that we won. Our Armed Forces protect Ukraine and we cannot even talk about the fact that we may not have enough strength for the match with Greece. We have to give our best."