THE Mars dominated the Thessaloniki derby against PAOK and won 77-63 in an unimaginable atmosphere at “Alexandreio”, reaching the 4 consecutive pink cards in the Stoiximan Basket League.
The coach of the “double head of the north”, Fotis Takianoscongratulated the winners, and emphasized that his team made many mistakes, which prevented it from being competitive in the match.
His statements in detail:
“We knew the degree of difficulty of the match, we prepared as best as possible in the process of concentration and tactics. We followed our plan in the first half and it allowed us to be close to the score and control the tempo that Aris wanted to impose. Our picture is changed in the second half by the effortless mistakes. We made a lot of mistakes and even close to the center, which gave Aris the opportunity to score easy points.
The damage from an effortless mistake is great. We were trying to contain Aris and control the game. In the end there was fatigue and the fouls and one point because of the three new players, we had some serious points of misunderstanding. Congratulations Aris and good luck. We want to improve and show more uniformity against Mars for the Final 8.”
For the many missed 3-pointers: “We are trying to find a solution in this area. There is a deficit in this part”.
For not using Tsairelis in the second half: “There was a matter of tactics, Tsairelis had no problem. We were looking for a player who can execute from the three-pointer and we wanted to make our formation a little taller like Aris did.”
Source: Sport Fm
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