Ilias Papatheodorou emphasized that Marousi is a quality team, something they knew in Prometheus, he believes that they controlled the match after the first period and that they blocked the home team’s “key” players, he did not want to dwell on the absences, he focused on the many points who succeed in the last matches and referred to the qualification to the “16” of the BCL.
Analytically:
On whether he expected an easy victory: “Not of course because we know the quality of Amarousi. It came from a big victory over PAOK, they play very good basketball, they have ideas in defense and attack, they have very good players and equipment. For this, we prepared in a proper way to play a high risk game.
I think we controlled the game after the first period, we had good decisions in attack and in defense we achieved our main goals to limit some ‘key’ players”.
About absences: “Absences are part of the program throughout the year. We have learned to live with them, especially in the last month. We have children who have made up for these absences and we are happy because new players, such as Karagiannidis who is playing for the first time in A1, or Bazinas who is present at key points of the game and they help us a lot”.
About the attack: “We had 91 points three days ago against Le Mans. This is our game, we don’t have the quality to score 100 points in every match. The opponents play, they prepare and adapt to us, but we want to play at a high tempo, with quality in our attack and good decisions.”
On the next game and qualifying for the next phase of the BCL: “This is the most important thing for us. We achieved a goal that was important and difficult. We are in the best “16” teams in the BCL, we are honored and privileged to be there, we are happy and will prepare properly for the qualification when the time comes.
Now we have a day off, we have a week to prepare and rest because we have had a difficult schedule and the continuation remains difficult for us”.
Source: Sport Fm
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