THE Colossus of Rhodes was ahead of the score with +19 against Mars (54-35), but was defeated by a score of 85-84 thanks to his buzzer beater Tyler Woodbury and continued to trouble with his performance at the start of the season.
After the match, George Sigalas admitted he made a mistake in the back-five playing last defense while making a puzzling statement about his marking David DeJuliusemphasizing how “that’s why some players get paid, otherwise some players wouldn’t get paid”.
In detail what he said:
“In the first two games we showed that we have come down read, that we control everything, but can I tell you something? Today we missed Hadjinikolas, I didn’t want to risk with London Perantes who has done half of the training. In fact, it was not a risk, because the children showed that they can do it. But what happened in the second part? Aris was getting the ball where it needed to go, DeJulius had an amazing one-on-one game.
Are you going to tell me ‘you couldn’t tag him?’ That’s what some players get paid for, otherwise some players wouldn’t get paid. De Julius managed to turn Aris in the match today. We knew Aris would be tougher in the second half and we held on long enough. Luck gave us a chance to win with a last defense.
That was my mistake, in relation to the five that should have been there, and I told the children that too. Basketball is simple, we don’t need to make it complicated. We played well in the first half, closed all of Aris’ assets, we were good at rebounds. At some point, the guys at the point guard position also got tired, and then everything happened.”
Source: Sport Fm
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