Takianos: “This image must not be repeated”

Fotis Takianos emphasized that there was a difference in speed between PAOK and Kolossos, he focused on the fatigue of the “two-headed” players from the continuous trips and the fact that they did not have time to do many training sessions, he asked for more brains afterwards, he believes that the inexperience of some counts players and believes that the bad texts will be corrected little by little.

Analytically: “It was clearly not the image we want. And we certainly wouldn’t want something like that to happen again. What was noticeable in the game was that the two teams had a big difference in their speed. Everything started and ended there. From how fast the opponents were operating and executing and how slow we were going.

We should emphasize, of course, that there is an accumulated fatigue in our team, as we are in the fourth week of the preparation. At the same time we returned from Athens, having played two games, but also with two difficult journeys, two long journeys of nine hours, as we were forced to follow certain routes after the floods in Thessaly.

We had two training sessions yesterday, because our goal was not the game against Colossos, but to continue our planning and to have our team ready when it needs to be. We were missing our main tall man, but also two children, Margaritis and Schizas who stayed out for several days and were still out of breath. We think about all this, but still our image should not be like this.

The legs may be ‘heavy’, our speed may be low, but our mental strength should have enabled us to prevent more phases than we conceded. This is what we need to look into. I think this is a good lesson, because our process in the Basketball Champions League will bring us several times to this level of fatigue and constant travel.

There are players who felt it for the first time, they got an experience in a bad way of course, but that’s how the preparation period is. You have to learn from your mistakes and see what you should improve. One can hardly find any positives from this friendly game. The players wanted to, but they couldn’t. We did not see a lack of effort. They fought, but could not keep up with the speed of the Colossus.

I think it was a bad bracket based on the picture we’ve had so far. It is up to us to correct our image and, after taking a much-needed rest, to change our image. We are in a phase of development and we will have to put things in the team. Time is not an ally, but if the children continue to work like this and with the same intensity, things will go the way we want them to.”