Frustrated with her defeat by Igokea, but satisfied with his effort PAOK was the Aris Lykogiannis.
From there and beyond, the Greek coach estimated that the “Bicep of the North” it will take some time to return to the level he was before the outbreak of coronavirus in his team, while he also expressed his concern with his injury Malcolm Griffin.
«We are not happy with the result, but we had more issues to solve. We could not play more than 20 minutes with the necessary energy. Our image was normal since the last twenty days, we did three training sessions with most of the players. It is not an excuse, but it is the reality and we can not go against it. We do not have the natural breath now to play competitively for forty minutes. We are pleased to continue, although I believe that if we had the whole roster together, as with Galatasaray inside and Nimburg outside, the whole picture would be different. You can not play basketball with if… We play from the beginning, without key players and it seems that we should continue like this. We have to face a very good team to face next, like Strasbourg. It has a lot of quality, it is second in France, it has the home advantage, but we will go with the goal of succeeding and continuing in the round of 16“, Initially stated the Aris Lykogiannis.
Regarding the situation in training, after the coronavirus: “Only for 1-2 players I can not find an excuse. It was a quartet of players doing individually. On the 24th of the month we entered the field with eight people, 24-25 we trained with eight people and for three days, we trained with all the players, except Christodoulos, who today was his tenth day. The group is data completely out of rhythm. Most were out of rhythm, out of breath as time went on. The image of the third quarter, getting back to the same pace, killed us… For some players it was more intense, but it was obvious to most».
About when the team expects to find rhythm again: “We will be late long enough συνεχ Consecutive games will help, if we win… At a pace they might help us. The bad thing is that we have continuous important obligations ahead of us and for the next 15-20 days we will not be as we were before the coronavirus. Most were asymptomatic, but for the first 2-3 days they had some issues and for about twelve days, they were out of training».
For the newly acquired Rivers, but also in the condition of Griffin’s injury: “Rivers can play in two positions in three and four. In previous years, he played in “3”, this year he played mainly in “4” in Nimburg. He is well qualified. We have to integrate it. It is good that he is ready to fight. We are waiting for him to give us an extra solution in “4” and “3”. Things are not optimistic for Griffin… The picture is not very clear. The bone swelling is a bit smaller, but we wanted more improvement. We will enter into a further examination process to get a better picture. In this injury, no predictions are possible. There is not much we can do, it is a medical issue».
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