Ilian Evtimov
Ilian Evtimov
Ilian Evtimov, is a professional basketball player for Élan Chalon of the French League. A French national, he is the youngest son of Bulgarian basketball star IlijaEvtimov and the brother of professional Euroleague player Vassil "Vasco" Evtimov. He is a 6 feet 7 inches tall, 215 pounds small forward-power forward...
confidence experience finding finish games giving pay putting situations ways win wins
This is giving us a lot of experience come March. It's putting us in situations where we're finding ways to win each time. Wins like this give us a lot of confidence that we can finish games when it's close. We've been ahead, we've been behind, we've been tied. So all that experience is going to pay off in March.
care says sheet shoots
The stat sheet says it all. We are unselfish. We don't really care who shoots or scores, as long as we get the W.
carolina games learned mentally tough
Carolina and Duke, those were two games we should have won. And you know, we've learned from them. We're very tough mentally now. We don't want to give up.
craig felt mistake running shot smith taken
I felt like Craig Smith was running at me and someone was going to have a better shot than I did. Should I have taken the shot? Maybe, I don't know that. We all makes mistakes, and that's a mistake I made. I have to live with it.
challenge mental
Now we're back to work. The challenge is more mental than anything else.
against bounce character quick top turnaround
It's going to take some character for us to bounce back, with the quick turnaround against another top team.
feels felt pain
It's getting better every day. But I'm not going to say it feels good. I felt pain with every step.
adjustment coach great hard job justin offense open point touching work
They had to work really hard on offense to get open looks. We did a great job on Justin Gray, to the point where their coach had to make an adjustment because he was not touching the ball.
missed shots
It's an ugly, embarrassing loss. We missed our shots and they made theirs.
game last season
This is the last game at home, sure, but there's a lot of season left.
beautiful everybody playing
It was beautiful to watch. Everybody was playing unselfishly.
adversity grant great guys playing somebody stepping
That's part of adversity -- somebody going down and somebody stepping up. I think Gavin Grant has been playing great for us. We just need to have more guys playing well.
feeling good playing though
That's such a good feeling to get when you're on the court, and you're doing that to the other team. And you know that even though you're ahead, you're stomping and you keep playing hard, you keep playing defense.
finish free game last learned lesson missed step
We're getting better. We learned a lesson with our last game (against Duke). We missed some shots, missed some free throws. We didn't finish it. I think (Saturday) was a big step forward.