Manolopoulos: “Turkey is a strong and well-prepared team”

She described her victory as extremely important Of Greece against Turkey with 72-71, Sotiris Manolopoulos who stressed that Turkey was more prepared than Our national.

The Greek coach also thanked him Olympic and the Panathinaikos provided by players of the teams for the National, although there are its matches Euroleague.

In detail what he said:

“Before I talk about basketball, because we love it and it’s our life, I have to say that there are more important things. I want to say that war is not the solution and I hope it all ends soon in Ukraine.

As for the game, it was a huge victory for us. It was a must-win game to qualify and we won. I want to say a big thank you to the fans who came here en masse and gave us valuable help. So it should be a basketball game.

Turkey is a very strong team and they were better prepared than us, because they had more days to train together. This was especially evident in the end. We had the problem that the Olympiacos players came to play without training, with a rally, but we thank them for their help because they showed loyalty to the team. We also thank the other guys who were here a lot and did not make it to the dozen.

I think we played well for most of the match, we were aggressive, we stole balls, we made surprises, but when we got a difference Turkey got better and we got worse. They led us to mistakes, because we had a lot of players who did not know the systems. On Monday we have a very difficult game in Turkey and we have one and a half training sessions to prepare.

It is very positive, it would be much harder to play in Turkey if we lost. Four children came around 2:30 p.m. in the hotel. We thank Olympiakos and Panathinaikos because they showed in practice that the National team is above everyone. It is very pleasant that after the atmosphere in the Final Four of the Cup we had the presence of the players from Olympiakos and Panathinaikos in the National team. “I think we have taken a very big step these days.”

Theoretically we will be better prepared on Monday. Turkey will be with its back to the wall. We are traveling tomorrow, we will do a relaxed training in Turkey and another one on the eve of the match. We will try to do what we can without ‘killing’ the players and then with a lot of analysis and a lot of videos. We will work mainly on the offensive part. “Our defense for a very long time was very aggressive, but we have to apply it for 40 minutes in the next game.”

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