Ataman: “Let’s be calm, the fact that Alba is not a candidate for the play offs doesn’t mean anything”

THE Panathinaikos AKTOR left for Berlin on Wednesday morning in order to return to the city where a few months ago he climbed for 7th time at the top of Europe.

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On Thursday night the “green ones» are against Alba at the start of the new season for the Euroleague and o Ergin Ataman when the team left for Germany he said:

“We closed the EuroLeague with a title in Berlin, now we start there. We are ready, of course all the teams are strong, especially away from home all the teams are dangerous, so we have to play well”.

Regarding the dangers of matches with level teams Albastated: “Perhaps in the standings, Alba is not a candidate for the play offs, but that does not say anything because especially at the beginning of the season, in the first half every team is fighting to get the victories. Rosters of course on paper are different from games. It is important to be calm, to play aggressively. Every game is dangerous”.

As for the situation of the “clover” after the defeat in the Super Cup, he commented: “We had no problem, last year we also lost the Super Cup. It was a close game. We have respect for Olympiakos and their roster. They have a very good roster, it was a difficult game, we lost in the last minute, we made a lot of mistakes but everyone saw that others made mistakes which cost us four points”.