In his statement after the Strasbourg victory, Beşiktaş Men Basketball Team Technical Director İhsan Bayülken said that “there is no way back, since we have reached this point”.  

İhsan Bayülken congratulated his players due to their performance and expressed his feelings as follows:
“We believe that there is no way back, since we have reached this point. We wanted to have the victory taking the advantage of playing at home and we did. I congratulate all our players. We will have our 2nd match with Strasbourg on Friday. I hope that we will win again and finish the series.”