Despite the ignominious interruption of the fourth final with the incidents at OAKA, Olympiacos is celebrating the 14th championship in its history, with its friends in store for a “legendary” reception at SEF!
The brothers Angellopoulos in their statements they were clearly satisfied, they reiterated the opinion that his return Olympiakou at the top of the Basket League is his justification “to the end”while they declared themselves excited by the team’s course, which they characterized “magic” and “dreamy”.
What they said in detail:
George Angelopoulos: “We feel a great vindication. You know what ‘until the end’ is and how it started. In the last 16 months, Olympiacos has won 5 titles in Greece, as many as it had won in the previous 16 years. Whatever else we say is unnecessary. We had to make difficult decisions but we didn’t beg anyone, we didn’t ask anything from anyone, we didn’t threaten. This is who we are, we have arrived here, I think we have experienced the greatest moments at Olympiakos and we continue.
We are a family, a hug together with the players. We played amazing basketball this year, it’s not just the results and the titles, but the health that the team brought out. In the fifth game against Fener they wanted 80,000 to come to SEF, this has never happened before. I think those are magical moments. We are not thinking about next season from now, there is still the award. Since coming back from the predicament we were forced into, we’ve been to two Final Fours. The Olympian returned to the top of Greece and came close to the top of Europe.
16-1 against Panathinaikos has never happened before in the history of Greek basketball. It is something very important, everyone wanted it and everyone likes it. But more important are the titles and what we have achieved, it is a justification of an attitude of life”.
Panagiotis Angelopoulos: “The year was a dream. We missed the Euroleague by three seconds but today we made history. We continue with a double as we did last year, the year was magical. Terrible work was done, Olympiacos is the definition of the team, both those who play and those who don’t. Otherwise we wouldn’t be playing the best basketball in Europe this year, it’s not easy.
We certainly have two days ahead of us to celebrate, then we’ll look to get the team as strong as possible for next year’s Final Four.
16-1 is a terrible record, I don’t know if it will ever happen again. Panathinaikos will definitely get stronger, we want Panathinaikos to be strong because that makes us better too. Nevertheless, we live it and enjoy it.”
Source: Sport Fm
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