In his excellent defense Olympiakou who played the decisive role for the break in OAKA against Panathinaikos referred to the statements of Kostas Papanikolaou.
At the same time, he stood on the good day that his teammates were and in the second final in CHEFwhere the people of Piraeus will have the world on their side.
In detail, the statements of Kostas Papanikolaou:
“In a first final you need a consistency from everything. I think today our defense was the key, it gave us confidence, it gave us a lot of phases, we kept down a very quality team and very good at scoring and we took the first step.
The game opened up more at the end, but if you look five minutes into the game, I think both teams were under 70 points. Nevertheless, the points that Panathinaikos found were difficult, we put our hands correctly, we put our bodies strong.
We made them work really hard for every point they got on the court and obviously when you’re that tough at the back you get confidence going forward. We found a lot of points in the open field, we had guys who had a great night, and Thomas and Nigel organized the team amazingly, Nikola was dominant, Shaq helped a lot, especially in the first half he opened up the game a little bit for us.
All the children, Peters, Alex, put their little stone and the first step was taken. To get the job done you have to reach three wins. I also said yesterday at the press conference that with the quality of the two teams and the way basketball has become, there are no seats. So now we have taken the first step and in two days at our stadium we want to give it all with the people on our side to take the second».
@sporfm946 Kostas Papanikolaou after Olympiakos’ break at OAKA #olympiacosbc
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Source: Sport Fm
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