Olympiacos lost 82-80 in Game 3 against Barcelona, with George Bartzokas to speak at the press conference about the performance of the “red and whites”, and to stand by two decisions of the referees.
In detail what the coach of Olympiakos said:
“There is nothing you don’t expect in a match like this. We had more pressure than we should have. We made some mistakes, especially in defense, not so much in attack. In some decisions we were excessive instead of sticking to our plan and of course everything was against us. We received two buzzer-beaters.
The whistle at the reset was really quite strange. The referees counted five seconds there, the ball was still in Satoransky’s hands, it was a clear foul. Barcelona equalized there. And finally, on the three-pointer… It’s not our job to criticize other people’s work, but when someone jumps and travels in the air and you judge the match with that whistle… It’s the responsibility of others to decide if it’s good or for bad decision. Now we have to prepare for Thursday, to win.
We entered the third quarter affected by the offense and had bad decisions on defense. We need to have more communication, but they are also big players and they made very difficult shots. There is no recipe for the shot. It’s about management, you have to create open shots. Kanan had 0/5. Obviously, to open the game you have to shoot. We should have had a better percentage on our pitch, everything comes into play when the game goes into possession. To show confidence in the players as we do all year and for them to reciprocate with better percentages.
When a match ends, you say that a lot can be done or all the opposite. I make decisions before the final result. More than the offensive rebounds of our opponents, it was also a matter of circumstances. For example, we received three points from jambol. At the moment I have no answers, for everything we are judged based on the result. Obviously, the players and I could have made other decisions.”.
Source: Sport Fm
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