Ataman: “We fought, we didn’t play good basketball, but we showed character”

Statements after the great away victory of Panathinaikos over Olympiakos for the 4th matchday of the Stoiximan Basket League, made by the coach of the “greens”, Ergin Atamantalking about some situations that caused him to not sleep the night before the game, while emphasizing that his team may not have played well, but they showed character.

In detail what the coach of Panathinaikos said:



“It was a charged game. We didn’t play very well, but I’m very happy, not about the match, but also with some other situations. But now I am happy. We fought, we didn’t play good basketball, Olympiacos didn’t play well either, but we showed character. Although we didn’t play well, we were very aggressive in our defense, regularly we had a very good game. We used some tricks, like putting Mitoglou at 5. It was strange that we lost the Euroleague derby. We were excellent in defense and game plan.

We played differently. Mainly at the end of the match we played with three talls, while at other points we played only with Dino as a tall and made it difficult for Fal to mark. We also played with Juancho in “3”. I don’t usually use many tactical tricks, but today I did”.