Niklas: “We missed free three-pointers in the first half”

Thanos Niklas emphasized that with these percentages that Olympiacos had in two points and three points against Burg, it had no chance of winning in a Euroleague match, but he believes that his players fought and got the rebounds and gave a signal for work for the next matches.

In detail: “Difficult result for us. Unfortunately, in the first half, while we created outstanding shots, we had 0/11 three-pointers, 8-9 should be outstanding, but we couldn’t make them. I don’t know why we were stressed about the execution. We had very poor numbers on three-pointers, 9% and under 40% on two-pointers.

When you play some teams that are traditionally pretty strong both in terms of roster and budget, I think if you can’t be on target to stay in the score and be competitive, things are going to get harder for us and easy for them.

Nevertheless, the girls fought, they showed a very different image in the rebounds as well, while we missed them in some of the previous games. We continue the work, these games only have to give us and we are looking at the next match, which is again very difficult, against Mersin here”.

Anna Spyridopoulou added: “We know that Bourges is a very big team. They have been in the Euroleague for years, with very good and strong players and they compete in a very strong French league, which helps them a lot in the European games. I don’t have much to say about the score, we tried and try to have a good picture in every game. We want to get better and to be able, game by game, to achieve the goals we have.

We are a new team, this applies to most teams, we just need a little more time, Nikolopoulou is also missing. We haven’t found our chemistry yet, we have new players, but I think that, year after year, we will get better and I think that the Euroleague helps us a lot. The results may not be what we want, but they give us a boost and I believe we will be much better for the next derbies.”