Bartzokas: “Thank you to my players, they fought until the end – Except for Colossos Fal”

THE Olympic went on to make the epic comeback, coming back from -20 down in the fourth quarter, but ultimately lost with 96-90 in SEF from the amazing Paris, who took their 10th straight win.

Speaking at the press conference after the end of the match, the coach of the “red and whites” glorified the image of the French, while congratulating his players for fighting until the end and coming close to a great upset.

At the same time, he revealed that Mustafa Fal he will also miss the league game against Colossos in Rhodes and that his tests will show if he can play in the Euroleague match against Virtus.

The statements of Giorgos Bartzokas in detail:



“It was a fantastic game. Both teams tried to do everything to win and of course we saw why Paris are first in the standings, they have 10 wins in a row, they play with incredible speed, they shoot very well, they play hard in defense and they deserve it. For us the conditions were against us, we had one less day to come back and it was an energy game today. Vezenkov is ill, Fall is out, and so is Wright. And we tried to play some unusual formations and try different weird systems to get the game.

We came back into the game, finally doing what we had to do from the first minute, having two forwards and three guards in the five. But in the end it was all against us… A missed three-pointer by Luca. Even a little while ago when we took the lead, they scored a three-pointer on defense. I want to thank our fans for their support and thank my players for fighting until the end. In the end everything was against us, but that’s basketball. This was the third match in a row for us and given the smaller rotation it is an issue. Tomorrow we travel to Rhodes, we have another game on Sunday, but we have a very good team and I’m not worried at all.”

For Moses Wright, the GM of the team, Christos Bafes, answered: “It’s a purely medical issue, he’s fine, he’ll be with us but he’ll be out for the whole season.”

Regarding Mustafa Fal’s injury situation, the coach said: “He won’t play on Sunday, we’ll see the tests on Wednesday, otherwise we’ll see in the next game, against Virtus.”