Osman: “We made a lot of mistakes, but there are also positives”

Cetin Osman stressed that the Panathinaikos players made many mistakes, he spoke about Real’s motivation for the lost final in Berlin, he considers that he is still in the adjustment stage, he described the “greens” as a huge team and asked them to improve in defense and rebounds in continuity.

In detail: “Basketball is a game of mistakes and we made more. We lost today, but there were some positives. We’ll take what we can and move on. We have another difficult match ahead of us and we have to be ready. It’s only the fourth match of the season. We know who we are, our characters, we’ll be better after this.

Real had extra motivation. It was a big match for both teams. Everyone was focused. We wanted to win, they wanted to win. It was a good match, but we have to be better and there are things we have to improve.

I feel more comfortable, but I’m new to the team, still adjusting. Surely, we will be better. Like I said, basketball is a game of mistakes. We will make mistakes, but the point is to learn from them.

We are a formidable team, the team that won the trophy last year, don’t forget that, we are not a team that plays for fun. We won the title and everyone is playing hard against us, we know that and we are focused on the next match.

We have to improve defensively, we give a lot of offensive rebounds. There were periods when we played good defense, but we didn’t get the rebounds and that “hurt” us, Real has experience, they are terrible. We have to improve the defense and get the defensive rebounds.”