Itoudis: “Great victory, extra applause for Papagiannis”

Proud of the victory (79-77) of Fenerbahce over Olympiakos was the Dimitris Itoudiswho at the same time deified him George Papagiannis.

Dimitris Itoudis stated in detail:

“Congratulations to the team for the win. I would also like to thank the fans for the great atmosphere they created. I hope the referees don’t have to make a decision from instant replay again and create question marks. That’s all I’m saying. We have similar experiences from the past. We played against a great team. We started really well and Pierre scored 14 points in six minutes. We had the right distances, but then we lost him. His absence completely ruined our plan. We were one man short for the perimeter defense and for that I have to apologize to Hayes, who played 40 minutes. But, we should limit the creation of Gosh, Walkup, and Kanan.

He was very tactical in the match. I can say a lot. Olympiacos is a team that can go all the way. A win is always a win. We won in a different way than we planned, but that’s basketball. Congratulations to my team. What I said at the beginning is not against anyone in particular, I just said not to see anything like that again. Papagiannis deserves an extra round of applause. He was very good on both sides of the floor. He was good not only in scoring, but also in defense, rebounding and turnovers. Motley also sacrificed himself. We wanted to see how Papagiannis would deal with Fal and then Motley with Milutinov».