Home Court Pivotal For Turk Telekom

22.02.2007

Turk Telekom center Erwin Dudley believes that home advantage will be key as his team look ahead to the last eight of the EuroCup.

Ercument Sunter's men beat Lokomotiv Rostov 92-80 in the final Group K match to top the group and qualify for the quarter-finals, where they will face Italy`s Virtus Bologna.

Dudley said: "Nobody can beat us in Ankara and we will not lose a game here. We are waiting for the next game."

Sunter admitted the players were very tense before Tuesday's game. 

He said: "We played two very important games one after the other and if we had lost either game, we would have finished the group second.

"That's why our players were very tense. 

"Our next opponents Virtus Bologna played in the final of the Italian Cup and are in second place in the Italian league.

"We have the home advantage in this three-games series, since we are the champions in our group.

"The first game in Ankara is very important for us. 

"We want to win this game and go to Italy to get a ticket for the final four."

On star player Igor Milicic, who played well against Lokomotiv Rostov, he added: "Milicic is a very experienced player.

"We used one of our foreign player quota by getting him. 

"He has been at top form recently and we were expected a good game from him.

"It happened against Rostov."


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