Vernon Taylor, player of BC Rilski Sportist: Defense wins championships

Vernon Taylor is one of the players Rilski Sportist will count a lot in the finals of EUROHOLD Balkan League. The American is main part of head coach′s Rosen Barchovski′s rotation and he will count a lot on him in those games. Here is what Taylor had to share before the first game in Prishtina tomorrow:

"Our team is preparing for the finals like any other game we prepare for, its nothing different. I think when you start changing up things and we don′t prepare how we are used to, that′s when you lose the war before winning the battle. I expect Sigal also to come out the same way - they are a very good team with talent and it′s going to be a hard fought game. We just have to play our game.

Yes, we lost twice to this team but we are also a different team now. Every time we play these guys we had someone injured but now we have a full healthy roster. Plus this is the finals so anything can happen, it′s about who wants it the most and which team is going to play lock down defense because defense wins championships.

Overall the season in the Balkan League was ok. We lost several games because of one little mistake on defense or not being focused and executing down the stretch of the game. You always want to end the season with a bang so if we don′t win in the finals to end the season it will be a disappointment to our team because we came this far. We want to win!"