After perhaps the best week of his career, initially with his decisive contribution to victory of Panathinaikos over Olympiakos and then having a leading role in Dominance of the Men’s National Team over Belarus, The Leonidas Kaselakis spoke to sport-fm.gr.
The 31-year-old forward referred to his different role in the two teams, the importance of the victory of the Greek team, but also to how important the following matches are, initially with the Turkey in the “window” of February.
In detail, Leonidas Kaselakis spoke to sport-fm.gr about:
-whether the National had pressure after the defeat by Great Britain: “There was pressure, but this is normal when you play in a team that always has to be high and have ambitions. In every match there will be pressure, because in every match we go for the victory. But our team was more stubborn. In proportion, we managed this pressure properly and starting from our defense, we reached this very important victory “.
-the importance of good defense: “It simply came to our notice then. We knew we would have gaps in the attack, but we hit on their weaknesses that we had identified and we stuck to our plan even though we had a lot of missed shots “.
-the help of the people: “The atmosphere was very nice. The people gave us a big boost and of course it was very beautiful that a legend like Nikos Galis watched the match “.
-his very good form in Panathinaikos and Ethniki: “The important thing is that I enjoy both my presence at Panathinaikos and my presence at Ethniki. I am physically and psychologically ready to cope and take advantage of every opportunity that the coach will give me. Coach Manolopoulos trusted me, he gave me a leading role, he gave me balls near the basket and I think I made him white-faced “.
-February matches with Turkey: “February’s matches with Turkey are very important. We do not have the opportunity to rest because every game is important and the group is very competitive. We need to present ourselves better. I believe that we have the ability to show better homogeneity, in order to get the desired results first to get the qualification and then why not for the first place “.
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