THE Olympic he saw everything in SEF against the terrible Peristeri, but with key points from Walkap and Larentzakis in the end he managed to get a difficult victory with score 84-78 at SEF for the 8th matchday of the Stoiximan GBL.
After the end of the match, the coach of the “red and whites”, George Bartzokasspoke about his team’s bad image, while congratulating Peristeri for their effort.
At the same time, he mentioned his health issue Moses Wrightcommenting that Olympiacos is examines the market for his possible replacement, however, the decision to add a player has not yet been made.
Giorgos Bartzokas’ statements in detail:
“Neither satisfaction, nor reflection on the result. We have a heavy schedule. From Sunday to Sunday we have 4 matches and we thought that we would not have to make a big effort to win the match, which Peristeri proved to us in a big way that this cannot happen. I congratulate them, they played excellently, we were in a hurry to finish the match from the first quarter. In the end we had to play good defense and big baskets to win the game.
When we play with this roster we can’t rely on Fournier’s absence. We have so many good players and we have to play better basketball than we played today.
Life is disruptive. That is why we are here to provide solutions. Wright is undergoing a series of tests for the pneumonia infection he contracted. We are obviously looking at the market just in case but we are not sure if we should get a player. Nowadays it is not so easy to find what you want.
We have four matches in one week and that mindset hurt us today. We have Monaco out first and we have to prepare, we must not think about Paris. Then we’ll see this game.”
At the press conference, Giorgos Bartzokas emphasized: “If there are two things we should focus on today, it’s that we had a lot of people, a lot of kids and a great atmosphere in the stadium. It is a good idea and for the organizing authority, these Sunday afternoon games can attract children who have school the next day. I found it awesome as a fact. And the other is the appearance of Peristeri, which was very good for 40 minutes. He played very planned, very methodical and with great speed. He obviously took advantage of our own haste, sloppiness, that we wanted to not get too tired to finish… Basketball itself, the league itself and life itself shows you that then you have to try twice and triple to win and so it happened. We were under a lot of pressure, we put more players than we expected, but we made some good plays defensively and offensively and won the match which was important for us. Congratulations to Peristeri».
Source: Sport Fm
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