An assessment of the season so far was made by Kostas Papanikolaou on the ERT camera after Olympiakos’ game with Apollon. The captain of the Red and Whites underlined that the team has been affected by the injuries while he estimated that if everything goes well with a good pace of training, the team will be able to show its real potential…
“It’s a very special year for us with a lot of injuries, a lot of kids coming out, coming into the rotation and all this creates an imbalance in the team that can’t find a stability in the competitive part. We were trying with unorthodox shapes to cover gaps. We definitely keep the mood, the will to succeed in putting out the best possible face”he said and added:
“If we say that from now on we will all be fine or at least at the best possible level we can be at, I want to believe that with a good training program so that we can work systematically and at the level we want until the end of January we will we’re starting to really show who we are and not what we’re forced to do throughout the first round to cover gaps and situations.”
Regarding the team’s losses in Greece and the Euroleague, he said…
“As far as Greece is concerned, we have a defeat against Panathinaikos at home, but we have shown in previous years as well as at the beginning of the season that we can also win in OAKA if we play properly, well, the game we want. The same is true in the EuroLeague, but in the EuroLeague there is another factor… at the moment we speak we are in 11th place with 8-8 and from 4th place to 10th place they are 9-7, it is so close league and the organization at this moment when a good week can lift you up and a bad week can bring you down”he emphasized and added about what is missing…
“It’s that click that happens in every team that can make the difference. A typical example that one can see is Efes the year they won the second Euroleague… they clicked and from where they had them out of the playoffs they went to the playoffs in the final four and got it. Even our defense needs improvement, it needs work.”
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Source: Sport Fm
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