CEZ Nymburk forward Ladislav Sokolovsky has blamed a lack of concentration for his side's 96-85 EuroCup defeat to BC Khimki on Wednesday.

Skolovsky, who scored eight points in the match, said: "I see the most important problem as being our concentration. We did not play like we wanted at all - mostly in defence.

"Khimki played very well but we helped them a lot with our mistakes. They scored too many easy baskets and many three-pointers as well.

"It was like a whirlwind. We believed that we could get something out of this game during the break and we were very close to that after third quarter.

"We reduced their advantage of Khimki to five points, but we didn't get any luck when we needed a few more baskets.

"The game could have been much different if we had taken the lead in that part of the game. We tried our best to get back into the game, but Khimki is not a team which will concede 12 points in a row. They were experienced enough to stop us - there are very good players in that team."