The nervousness he had in the first part was overcome by Olympic in the second and through his defense he succeeded to beat Panathinaikos 81-65 to qualify for the Final 8 of the Cup, according to what was said by George Bartzokas.
In detail what the coach of the “red and whites” said to the ERT camera:
“My job is not to deal with the past and the distant future, but the near and the final. We will have the opportunity to say a lot after Sunday’s match. Initially we were off target on nervy shots, playing with the “must”. When we calmed down in the locker room, we had a really good third quarter defensively and in the fourth quarter we managed it.
Papanikolaou and Kanan put the shots they had to put. They were easy rhythm shots, the shot you think about is very hard to hit. We are the best team at creating spot up shots anyway.
Panathinaikos paid a lot of attention to the Cup game. I respect him, he has a good coach regardless of what is said left and right, he has good players. We are a more compact team and when we played what we had to, we won quite easily.
Every match is different. The same teams playing ten times will be different. We will treat the bwin Pigeon game as a final, after first leaving behind what happened today».
Source: Sport Fm
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