NN goes down to Budivelnyk

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Ainars Bagatskis, NN head coach:

- I notified our players that it would be a tough game. Budivelnyk is a dangerous team this season, they have a few Ukraine national team players, plus all their bigs can shoot. We allowed them to score some open shots in the beginning of the game and they started to feel confident. However we calmed down later on and managed to come back, but the opponents were luckier in the end of the game.

The main goal of these two games was to stay focused for all 40 minutes. But we failed to do so. One of our players was like a Santa Claus today, he just gave 18 points to his opponents as a present. We can't allow that.

Taylor Rochestie, NN guard:

- Budivelnyk played with a lot of confidence and it helped them to make some tough shots. We're still learning, figuring out things on both ends of the court. Its a long pre-season, they'll be plenty of games to fix what we're still missing, we just have to wake up tomorrow on a positive note and start working again.

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