THE George Bartzokas on his statements in view of Baskonia he was asked about what happened in the game with PAOK and he emphasized that about what is happening in the Greek stadiums there must be laws and institutionsadding that she is work of sports leadership and the state.
Specifically, he said: “I think that for everything that happens in all fields, there should be laws and institutions. Asking people who do not have an institutional role – because an institutional role means that I legislate and decide – to speak is wrong. Why you are also treated like a graphic artist sometimes.
The sports leadership, the state, must make decisions of this kind and he has no censure against PAOK thisit happens everywhere, when we play away from home in Greek stadiums, not everywhere, but in several, where we are traditionally opponents. And this happens in our football teams, it is not a matter of coaches or players».
Remember what he said about Thursday’s match against Vaskos:
For Baskonia’s profile: “We have to be serious. Baskonia is a team with a very good coach, they always play at a high tempo and score a lot.
She is having some trouble transitioning this year to a somewhat different style of play, mostly defensively. However defensively they are the 3rd team in possessions allowed which means they are a good team defensively.
We have to be very focused in our offensive plan, make quick decisions, move the ball as we usually do, go for the defensive rebound and thus control the pace of the game through this process».
On what Olympiacos must do to win: “For us, coming off a five-game winning streak, the worst thing we can do is for anyone in our team and in the stands to believe that we will have an easy task.
Usually in these matches we always have a problem, as it was seen with Villeurbanne. Approach is very important in Euroleague games and we need to approach the importance of the game.
In this period of time, when we have completed almost 1/3 of the games in the competition, we must continue to win games, play better, improve as a reference the form of the players, but also our defensive and offensive execution.
If we do this we have a serious chance of winning, something, however, that is not prescribed from the beginning».
For the team’s defense: “We have a style of play where we have a lot of final passes. We think that in this way, even if we don’t have a lot of points in transition – because in the last few we didn’t, we didn’t have any great percentages, but nevertheless we scored more than 90 points – because we have the offensive talent, when we move the ball we will have a great harvest.
Many times a game goes into multiple possessions and what you do on defense doesn’t necessarily show in the score. But we have elite defenders in the team and I think our defense will be good again this year, it has been good in many games.
Of course, let’s not ignore that the talent in the EuroLeague is abundant, overflowing in all teams. Even if you’re consistent defensively, you can concede points to very talented players and talented teams, it’s a matter of».
Regarding the approach to the match against PAOK which brought a comfortable victory despite the absences: “That has to do with if we had to rest Milutinov and the other two talls get more playing time, or if Fournier had to stay back for a tight end in the middle, or if Dorsey had to sit out.
We still have a roster that has a lot of depth and that really shows in these types of games, where some have to sit out, rest, or are injured. We feel like we’re more covered coaching and executing a style of play.
Larentzakis played very well with PAOK, Vildosa is consistently good, Goss helped us a lot, Walkup is what he always is. In the perimeter but also in the tall ones, we have a rotation which is very important».
For Fournier who was absent from the match against PAOK: “Fournier practiced yesterday as well, he will practice even harder today and we believe he will be in the game tomorrow».
On Vezenkov’s absence: “It’s an issue, but my previous position also concerns this, that this year we have, for example, at “4” Alec Peters, who we believe in a lot. Papanikolaou can move up a position and plays it very well as many times as he has played. Even Moses Wright in several training sessions does it successfully.
So, we don’t think that compared to last year or other years, an absence will be so impactful, although last year and the year before, we played a lot of games without impactful players and managed to do just fine. Because we rely more on our team play and not so much on any individual player.
Vezenkov scores a lot of points off assists from his teammates. Of course he has the ability, but with PAOK he scored 20 points in the half and did not enter any personal phase, it was from team execution».
Source: Sport Fm
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