Batis: “Let’s pressure Jordan’s guards and deal with the zone properly”

One of the partners of Dimitris Itoudis, Marios Batisanalyzes her JordanGreece’s first opponent in the World Cup, on Saturday morning (11:45).

“The premiers of major competitions always have particularities and the first thing we have to keep in mind is to look serious on the pitch, starting with our defensive function. Jordan has a reference point of their tall, both Doverioglou who is a player with a lot of experience in the European courts, in the Euroleague with Fenerbahce, and their naturalized, Hollis Jefferson. They are two important targets to stop them with our defensive function“, he initially reported.

“Our main aim is to put pressure on their guards, a trio with Ibrahim being mainly creative and Havas and Bsai more scorers. So we have to put a lot of pressure on them, steal balls, push them into mistakes and through this process find easy points in the transition game“, he added.

“We also expect zone defenses that Jordan uses a lot, we have worked a lot on this part to be able to create free shots and of course to “hit” Doverioglou as well, to tire him as much as possible and take him out of the game. We must be the ones who will control the pace of the game, which we will find through our attack and thus be able to control the development of the game as well“, concluded.