Spanoulis: “Let’s start and play the way I want”

THE Vasilis Spanoulis he dwelt on the good performance of his players and the progress of his team after the victory of Peristeri bwin over Apollon Patras (90-57).

“It was a match for us that we had to win at home. After the first 10 minutes we were very serious, played better defense especially in the second half and controlled the tempo of the game. We had excellent creation, 23 assists for 8 errors. I said it in the locker room too, Elaiza (Long), Ragland and Xanthopoulos had 17 assists for zero mistakes! This is very important. The guys were serious and now we are preparing for Wednesday’s game (Le Mans). Congratulations to Apollon Patrons, I wish him good luck and congratulations to my players who were serious and as they should be in such a game“, he emphasized.

On the upcoming showdown with Le Mans for the Basketball Champions League, he said: “We are waiting a lot for the game, we will prepare properly, the good thing is that through the match we managed to divide the participation time, because we play in three days. We have two days to prepare. I believe in the first game we were not good psychologically against Le Mans, we had lost a game in Rhodes with two overtimes and against Panathinaikos who we were ahead with 19 points and that psychologically knocked the team down. Now we are a different team, we are in very good momentum. Lately we have 7 wins for 2 losses. We have lost to Olympiakos and Malaga away from home. The team is on the rise, we are starting and playing what I want. We are finding our roles, we are finding our psychology which is very important for a new team and I hope that once again we are serious, tactically correct but also energetically because this is a game against Le Mans that will require a lot of energy».