Dissatisfied with Panathinaikos’ attack, but pleased with the defense, Ergin Ataman appeared at the press conference after win on Mars and qualifying for the OPAP Greek Cup final.
In detail what the Turkish coach said:
“First of all, thanks to the organization for changing the language of the statistic so that I could comment on it. I’m not happy with our offense, we had 13 assists for 12 turnovers, not a good ratio for our team. We didn’t shoot well from the three-point line, while defensively we were good. Especially in team defense.
The problem was in the attack, because with the mistakes we gave easy points to surprise. Anyway, they put up 65 points. The negative was our mistakes. Okay, we have a finale ahead of us. We have managed the minutes of the players and are waiting for our opponent. We will come tomorrow to win the Cup
The decision is EEC’s, but I think it is a very long period to stay five days here, to play on Saturday and Sunday. In Turkey they changed the system and the quarter finals were played at home or away and then they put a Final Four. Maybe all teams should play on Friday in the semi-finals. Olympiacos has a disadvantage with three matches in three days, while we stay here for five days, we are in the hotel all day. The federation will have to make a decision
Vildosa is out due to injury, he has injured his knee and the doctors said that tomorrow we will see. Of course I am pleased with Balcherowski’s performance. I have to think about Fal, if Olympiacos qualifies. If that happens, Balcerovski will probably be our choice, but we will decide tomorrow morning when we see the situation of Vildoza as well.
I repeat, on Monday morning the winners will celebrate and by evening they will have forgotten about it. The first goal is the playoffs and the Final Four, but also the championship. Every final is a final, you want to win, but to analyze the match we have to see the opponent. Every game is difficult».
Panagiotis Kalaitzakis, for his part, said: “In the last two games we are not so happy with the attack. We lost Lessor with two technical penalties, as Aris was playing quite hard. Aris are a very strong team, they beat us two weeks ago, they play hard, they play that zone defense that has made it difficult for all the teams in the league.
The good news is that we are in the final and we will go for our first goal, to win the Cup. The second five was very bad today, certainly in attack we made too many mistakes and in the match against AEK, we were not so focused. But we got two results. We really want to win the Cup».
Source: Sport Fm
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