Bartzokas: “Of course we can beat Real, but we have to be very good”

To… scratch his ceiling he will need o Olympic to beat Real on Tuesday at SEF (21:15), as pointed out by George Bartzokas recognizing the great degree of difficulty the encounter has due to the enormous potential of the Madrid team.

“I think it is unnecessary to talk about the difficulty of the game. Everyone says that when they play Real, that based on the numbers, the standings and of course what we all see, they are a team that has a high level of difficulty to play with. Everything has to be done very well to win. This is the situation at the moment in European basketball. A team that had no injuries, they are all back, they have a body from last year, they have the addition of Campacho, who has a big impact on their game. They are a team that has experience and they know how to play together. So you have to play very well“, emphasized the coach of Piraeus.

“Of course, we think we have a chance to win. It will be a nice atmosphere for us, the stadium full. The team is motivated to continue the good performances, because we believe that we also played well against Monaco in general. In essence, the game was decided on a couple of possessions. So we believe that we have to keep improving and become the best version of Olympiakos that we can be and with the new signings I’m sure our ceiling goes up quite a bit. But the game is tomorrow and we will have to be very good to win it“, he added.

Regarding them Petrusef and Williams-Goss he said: “Nothing can be done tomorrow for both of them. Gosh’s recovery from his injury is close to 100%. We hope that he will play with Karditsa in the next league game and from then on he will join the team normally. Philip will have his first team training session today. He has done two individual games, because our program was like that. He has individual matches with other players of course, but he hasn’t done a single team match. As you can see it is impossible, with a team training to get him to play tomorrow. Apart from the fact that he needs a period, we estimate a week to ten days, for him to get in a good condition, because he did not have a competitive rhythm in the NBA with the Sacramento Kings and he needs to find a rhythm through training. So he won’t be in the team tomorrow».