Bartzokas: “We have a complete lack of continuity and rhythm, we are not allowed to have 21% in the three-pointer”

Statements at the press conference after the difficult victory-qualification of Olympiakos against Peristeri was made by George Bartzokaswho spoke about the problems facing his team at the start of the season, but also the elements that need to be fixed ahead of the sequel.

Details of what the Olympiakos coach stated at the press conference:



“Congratulations to Peristeri. He had a good performance. We have a complete lack of continuity and rhythm in our game. We don’t look compact, we had to push at the end to beat the formidable Peristeri. These games are kind of like that, but if you lose them, you’re in trouble.

We have to take seriously that with Olympiakos the opponents will play without stress, they will shoot the ball well. On a team with such good shooters, we’re not allowed to shoot 21% on 3-pointers when most of those – about 14.15 – were off turnovers and extra passes. Too many good shooters took spot-ups and didn’t hit them. Let’s look at the specific areas we need to improve and work on them. That’s how it always goes.”.

On the early season games and Fal’s absence: “Fal gives a significant dynamic to any kind of defense we want to play. Both because of his size and because of his attachment. In essence, it ties the pieces together. To say that we don’t deal with defense and only focus on offense is naive.

We have players who are unselfish. A lot of them are not that they don’t want to follow the plan, it’s that they have a lot of confidence in the way they shoot and often go in a hurry, and this team has not learned to play in a hurry. We all have to go through this process. Today we had these percentages. There will be nights where we don’t make the baskets, but if you look at the game when we got to +10 we were making shots and playing good defense, but then we started playing in a hurry”.

For the starting five he wants to choose: “It depends. I’m not dogmatic about it, nor was I in previous years. I decided to have a more solid five because it kind of worked. Some prefer to start, some to come in from the bench. I’ll see what works best for our team and decide. The process that always takes place in a group is to see what works best and for them to accept what you tell them.”.