Manolopoulos: “Every day we have to become better, to assimilate things”

THE National our team completed on Saturday afternoon its preparation for tomorrow (28/11, 17:00) match against Belarus in “Alexandrio” and in the context of the 2nd match of the World Cup Qualifiers.

With his statements, our Federal coach, Sotiris Manolopoulos, expressed his belief that Greece will be presented obviously more improved tomorrow in relation to the defeat in Newcastle by Great Britain, while at the same time he made a special reference to his support of Thessaloniki.

In addition, in addition to the coach, both Nikos Gikas and Vassilis Mouratos spoke.

Sotiris Manolopoulos: “It is very important that the National team plays in Thessaloniki and we will have a very important help. The way we want to play the support of the people is important and we hope they enjoy a nice game and rejoice in a victory.

The defeat by Great Britain was bad, but it is not an easy situation. We are a new team, with a new technical team. We also had the misfortune of not being able to be there and participate in the preparation for the first game. The team practically spent two days preparing, with a lot of new things, against a team that played together for a long time.

I think we are in a better situation at the moment and on Sunday we will play better. Every day we have to get better, assimilate new things and the automation works better. This is done with training days. Belarus is a good and hard-working team. They have the same coach for a long time, most of the players come from Tsmoki Minsk and are well known.

The part of intensity and energy is very important. This is the first thing we ask for, because in terms of automation we will not be better than our opponents “.

Nikos Gikas: “Although we had some time, I think we have worked well. We all know and understand how crucial tomorrow’s game is. We made a bad defeat and we have to correct it starting tomorrow. We had to be more focused, we made some bad choices in defense, we paid for everything we gave and from there on the momentum went to Great Britain. We are the first to be disappointed, because we know that when you play for the National team you have to win. We are convinced and σα tsaboukalemos that we will go with the knife to the teeth, to show that there is no room for error and what happened was a bad parenthesis. If we are serious in the next matches, the defeat from Great Britain may not even count. In the windows, whoever is not focused can easily lose. From now on we have to go clearly in all the games to win. The defeat in Newcastle was more of a game and not a coach, but surely the presence of coach Manolopoulos will help us get the victory we need on Sunday “.

Vassilis Mouratos: “We are very happy that the National team is returning to Thessaloniki, a very basketball city with a long history. We hear that there is a lot of interest in the game and we really need our people to celebrate a victory that we need. The appearance we made from 25 ‘onwards against Great Britain does not represent our ambitions, effort and homogeneity. We relaxed after +15, we got some habits that we each had personally, we made some mistakes and unconsciously the ego came out on top of us. There is a great will, we want to make a fresh start and win the match against Belarus. The opponents have eight players from the same team, so they have homogeneity. In the windows you have to be constantly vigilant as you have few days to prepare. Belarus’ victory over Turkey is a bell for us and our appearance in Newcastle is an even bigger bell. We have no excuse for tomorrow and that is why we must present ourselves as ready and passionate as possible for the victory “.

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