Manolopoulos: “Let’s manage the emotions and start with defense”

THE National basketball team completes its obligations in World Cup opposite Montenegro and Sotiris Manolopoulos analyzes the last opponent of the Greek team.

“Most important of all for the game against Montenegro will be to manage our emotions. There is a lot of disappointment after the match against Lithuania, because we thought we could win, but we have to put aside what happened and try to finish with a good performance and a win our presence in this World Cup.

Montenegro is a team that has shown a very good competitive face in the competition. They are a balanced set, with big bodies and their strength is largely in the low post, where they have very quality and experienced tall players, while they are also very strong in rebounds. They also have some operators with different characteristics, either shooters or drivers, that have quite a good build. Defensively they are a team that has weaknesses, which our attack will have to exploit, but in any case our starting point should be the defense, to be able to stop their game and control the tempo».