PAOK: Without Tsairelis with Olympiakos

With an absence travels o PAOK for Athens ahead of tomorrow’s match against Olympiakos at SEF (20:15) for the 16th matchday of the Stoiximan Basket League.

THE Michalis Tsairelis he also underwent a treatment program today and will not follow the team’s mission, just like Laurinas Beliauskas, who was initially left out of the six foreign players who have the right to participate in the championship but is essentially a thing of the past and will be replaced by Tevin Brown. Instead, the team’s new acquisition will debut, Marquis Townes.

The coach of PAOK, Fotis Takianosreferring to the match against Olympiakos, emphasized: “It is a game with a very high degree of difficulty, in which we want to show our competitive readiness and our improvement, which is what we set as a goal after our last appearances. We want to see where we are, get Towns in so he can be more ready for the next very demanding games we have. We know that Olympiacos has absences, but this does not diminish the potential of the opponent, because they have depth and quality in their roster. We have to be careful especially in fighting the speed of Olympiakos. To not let them run in the open field and through our defensive tactics to limit the speed in the circulation of the ball that Olympiacos wants to impose on the game».

In the team’s mission, the following basketball players participate: Markis Towns, Michael Gilmore, Jamuni McNish, Andrew Harrison, Nikos Tsiakmas, Stavros Schizas, Elvar Fridriksson, Vangelis Margaritis, Nikos Arsenopoulos, Thodoris Skoulariotis, Aristotelis Sotiriou and Justin Alston.