Serelis: “We are a team that has winners, the players want to prove that they justly succeeded last year”

THE Panathinaikos AKTOR passed through Belgrade and the headquarters of the Red Starrising to second place in the Euroleague standings.

Ergin Ataman’s assistant, Christos Serelis, spoke to Nova’s camera after the match, making special mention of the “key” points that decided the match and tipped the scales in favor of the “greens”.

At the same time, he focused on the fact that the players of the “trefoil” constantly want to prove that last year they deserved what they achieved in the Euroleague and the championship.

In detail what Christos Serelis said:

“The game was shocking. It had this variation. We got a very big win as it turned out, after a poor performance. We allowed Red Star to score in as many ways as they wanted. We didn’t have our hands on the ball, we weren’t good at defending, we gave away easy shots. Red scored easily, what changed was the defense, we had hands on the ball, deflections, we had 14 steals and forced Red into 19 mistakes.

It was all about defense today. Attacking “key” that played at “5” was Dinos Mitoglou and opened up the space, he also scored a big three-pointer. He opened the racket because they made changes and so we found personal actions as well.

We are a team that has winners, we are European champions. The players want to prove that they justly achieved what they did last year.

Nan was charged with a foul, he was irritated, with other players we bought time and he helped in the end. We’re a tough team to beat, even when we’re on a bad day, because today we weren’t on a good day and we got a big win.”