Gonzalez: “The whole game we played bad defense – I can’t keep anything”

After the mediocre first half, o Olympic hit the… accelerator in second and ahead of him Isaiah Canaan defeated 101-87 Alba Berlinin SEF.

The German coach Israel Gonzalezhighlighted his team’s poor defense that cost them the game, while referring to the difficult back-to-back schedule.

His statements in detail:

“Everything was decided in the 3rd quarter and in the second half we generally played very bad defense, we made a lot of unforced errors, we gave them easy points and when you give easy baskets to Olympiakos then you have a problem. In general throughout the game we played bad defense, it seems from the 101 points we conceded, we made a lot of wrong decisions. I can’t take anything from this match, we have to see how we can correct the many mistakes we made and the fact that we allowed them to have control of the game and the many offensive rebounds we missed.”

For the injuries that exist in the Euroleague recently: “Indeed, there have been many injuries recently, the teams have many obligations. We had three absences today, Olympiacos also had absences, Valencia also have many problems. I think sometimes we take it too far with the players. I’m a coach who likes to train, I like to improve my players, but with a game every two days that’s impossible, so sometimes we train more, Sometimes in the Euroleague we don’t have doubles, but we have doubles in the German league . So it is understood that it is impossible not to injure the players. In the NBA teams have the ability to play multiple times, however they have the ability to use multiple players. The product is different between the NBA and the Euroleague, but here the audience likes to see tactical play. But I think that fewer matches should be played in order to improve the product”.