Bozikas: “We were very strong mentally, few teams will pass Monaco”

Back to winning ways for him Olympicwho thanks to his excellent defenses in the last five minutes of the match and the many protagonists that I came out in front of the difficulties, prevailed against me score 89-80 over Monaco of Vassilis Spanoulis for the 13th matchday of the Euroleague!

After the end of the match, the assistant coach of the “red and whites”, George Bozikas, stood in good mental concentration of Piraeus throughout the match, stressing among other things that at the critical points the Olympiacos players made the right decisions.

The statements of Giorgos Bozikas in detail:



For the Monaco game: “We were very focused on the spiritual party in the 40’s. We didn’t lose control of the game even when we made some mistakes, even when Monaco had big shots. We could have gotten a bigger difference. I think we were ahead for 40′, we rarely lost the lead. Although we faced problems in rebounding and in our defense mainly in the first half, but we were very strong mentally, in the end we got the defenses we needed and we got an important victory, because very few teams will pass from here”.

For Monaco’s three points that did not allow Olympiacos to get a difference: “You can’t expect to win by a big margin in games like this. It was a close game and you have to make the right decisions at the crucial points, like we did today. The low formation helped us a lot in our defense, but also in creation, because Monaco also played with similar formations. What we said at half-time came true, our defense became tougher, we used our fouls as we should and made some really big shots.”