Bartzokas: “Let’s play a better game against Baskonia – Our team must set the rules”

On Friday night (12/01, 21:30), o Olympic is called to play his second game in this EuroLeague “devil’s week”, facing it Baskonia at the “Fernando Buesa Arena” for the 21st matchday of the competition.

The coach of the “red and whites”, George Bartzokasspoke ahead of tomorrow’s match, stressing among other things that Piraeus should play a better game compared to yesterday’s match against Barcelona.

At the same time, he praised the Basques and his Dusko Ivanovicwith the Greek technician standing on the elements that Olympiacos must pay attention to in order to have luck in the game and leave with the double.

Giorgos Bartzokas’ statements in detail:



“Always the pace that Baskonia imposes on the particular field and also in general the way they play is a problem for the opponent. If you don’t have the right plan or if you don’t follow it, if you don’t control your possessions in attack, if you don’t have good options in attack, if you give them the ball in their hands, if you make hasty choices that can lead to transition, the pace of the game.

A journalist wrote that we were missing something in that match. I didn’t read the article, but it’s true, that something was missing to win. What was missing was that it was a game of reaction rather than action. Twice we left the match in the first and third quarters. We started the race with a completely wrong approach. In the important parts of the game that we had to emphasize we were not good. Twice we reacted, got to the shot, where we could have shot 3-4 times and tied the game just before the end and got the momentum. However, reacting all the time is not logical in the EuroLeague, our team must set the rules. To impose the way he wants to play and from then on the others will react.”