Ataman: “If we need a player we will get one – The doctors told me not to put Sluka on for too long”

Can o Panathinaikos to defeat with too much ease the Maroussi 82-71, however Ergin Ataman was anything but satisfied with the team’s image.

The Turkish coach emphasized immediately after the match the poor performance of some players, doing the same in the press conference, where he spoke of a “dangerous mentality” without naming anyone.

At the same time, he explained the reason that the Kostas Sloukas he played just 6 minutes, while he mentioned the possibility of an extra addition to the roster.

What he said in detail:

On what to improve: “We are a new team. I also pay a lot of attention to these kinds of games. Many think they are easy but they are important. And I must not underestimate anyone. We are training and we have to win. In the end we gave a chance to Samadurov who played very well. Apart from two players I am not satisfied at all. I don’t want to name names right now, but this mentality is very dangerous. We have to be more aggressive. Immediately. We can’t not play aggressively. We lost to Olympiacos not because Olympiacos was better than us. Because we made stupid mistakes. Especially in the last quarter.”

For Sluka: “The doctors told me not to use him much because he has some calf problems, while Hernangometh was left out for rest reasons. We have a big roster and we can cover them.”

For the possibility of addition: “We are waiting to see what will happen when Papapetrou and Mitoglou return. They will give us many solutions. We also saw this in “Pavlos Giannakopoulos”. We’ll see what happens in the next games. If we need something we will do it. Let’s get a player, let’s change. We have high goals and if we see that something is not right, we will change it.”

For the match against Bayern, after the defeat by Olympiakos: “Every game for us is a must win. We have a lot of games ahead of us. We want to win every match.”