Philip Petrusev is likely to get playing time against Bayern Munich, according to what Giorgos Bartzokas said at Olympiakos’ media day.
The coach of Piraeus, with his statements, referred to the course of the Bavarians so far in the Euroleague, but also to that of his team, characterizing all the games as “blood and sand”, while he expressed the opinion that Olympiacos could have had 2 to 3 more wins.
Analytically:
For Bayern Munich: “Bayern, if I’m not mistaken, are coming from three consecutive wins in the Euroleague and in general with the German league they have five in a row. He’s in good form, you could say, at a good level now and of course he has the same record as us in the Euroleague, 6-6. They are in the group of all the teams, who claim with great claims the claim of the play offs. He has a very good coach, of course, he has a, in my opinion, very remarkable roster, which has experience and basically a body of players who have been playing together for several years. They are a very solid team and at the moment our game is particularly difficult. That’s how we have to evaluate it and that’s how we have to play. In other words, our players must be sure that there is nothing easy in the Euroleague, but even more so in this match.”
For Petrusev’s participation: “Yes it is possible, because little by little, as difficult as it is, because we don’t have many team trainings, they are very specific with the games. It’s a difficult job for coaches, you know now, to integrate new players. There is no such time for team training. The games are many and one has to find in quotes, his steps through the games, which is not easy, because the games are all very demanding and every possession counts. But he’ll be in our team and we’ll see how he goes with his playing time.”
For the progress of Olympiakos: “We could have had a couple more wins. We lost some matches in the details, but in general if we exclude Milan where we were also very incomplete, in most games I think we put on good performances and generally in the details we have lost or in the details we have won.
As you can see all the games are “blood and sand” in the Euroleague. You also saw yesterday’s games. In the end they go to one possession, one or two decisions. All teams claim victory everywhere on equal terms. We could have done better, but overall based on the problems we encountered, one would say we could do a little better, but it’s OK. We have the opportunity in front of us, to get the wins we need and to achieve our goal.
But I would like to emphasize once again that if the point for our group is to have a connection with the world, I would say that it is very important. Olympiacos is the first time in history, that it does so many consecutive sold outs. It has such a large number of tickets that it sells and if that’s what it’s asking for, for me it is, we’ve achieved it.”
As for when his team will be at 100%: “I think that at this moment, we were under too much pressure during the time we had absences. Too many players were killed playing long time participation in consecutive games. So if you can say that there is a common thread, it is that the team trains all together and this slowly gives improvement, gives room for the team to improve their game, the way they play together, their chemistry, their automations.
I see that the quality in training is much better now and of course the competition in training, because someone who knows there is someone else in his position plays better in training, than knowing that he will play 35 minutes in games. I think overall our roster is good right now. We have quality, we have talent.
It remains for us to be together, but you can never predict what will happen. You know the injuries. Where you think everything is fine, suddenly someone can strike and you have losses. I think that in general we are now in a process of going upwards.”
Source: Sport Fm
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