Bartzokas: “Fantastic to work at Olympiakos – Congratulations to Panathinaikos as well”

He called her worthy qualification of Olympiakos to the Final 4 The George Bartzokas after the big win over Barcelona in Game 5 of the playoffs.

“We deserved to qualify. We showed our level throughout the series, even though we didn’t play very well today. We lost a third match to no whistle, won the next one by 34 points and today we showed character by getting right through to qualification“, he said.

“Some people said 4-5 years ago that it would be a pipe dream for a Greek team to go to the Final 4 again. We did it three times in a row. We’ve had some really bad injury problems, we’ve had a tough run, we had a 7-8 record at one point, but then we had a great second round, made some additions, stuck together and the whole club is very supportive. It’s an environment I really enjoy, it’s fantastic to work at Olympiakos. You also saw how much the people believed in the victory in the fifth match away from home and we returned their trust“, he added.

“We have some time to calm down after five high-intensity games. We will prepare based only on basketball, without dealing with paraphilology and toxicity. It is important that we have two Greek teams in the Final 4 and I want to congratulate, given which teams were left out“, concluded.