Katsivelis at 94.6: “We managed properly from the Champions League -the 2nd match in Palataki”

For the great success of the PAOK basketball team with the qualification of the final FIBA Europe Cup talked to BWINSPOR FM 94.6 O Dimitris Katsivelis.

His ace Biceps He pointed out that the secret to the team’s success, in addition to being created a good company, was the fact that the failure to qualify at the beginning of the season in the BCL clubs did not allow the team to be catastrophic. They did not underestimate the event in which they would be involved and from which, slowly, through the victories in it they built something even more powerful.

“We didn’t let this failure get us down. A failure that came at the beginning of the season and it is harder to handle it“, He pointed out.

Dimitris Katsivelis knit his praise Katselieristating that he is a man who lives and breathes for basketball and has managed to get the maximum of the potential by all players.

Listen to his interview with the official Bwinpor FM 94.6 channel on YouTube.

In detail the statements by Dimitris Katsivelis to Bwinpor FM 94.6…

If it is the greatest success in his career:

It is definitely one of the biggest, the largest in recent years. All that can be compared to the Euroleague conquest when I was at Olympiacos but then I was young.

-For the group:

We have built a very nice team, a nice company with all of us in it. We are all in the team very early and our coach through his ideas and a lot of work has gotten the greatest of all players.

The truth is that this team did not fill the … eye from the beginning and what we have done has done through the work that has come out of the stadium. The truth is that the Europa Cup helped the team with the games we won, so I think we have evolved through this event.

I believe that our exclusion from the BCL groups played a role. We wanted to be in the clubs very much. It is important from the beginning that we have used our participation in this event and we did not underestimate it. We didn’t let this failure get us down to play in the group. And it even happened at the beginning of the season that is more difficult to get.

For Katslieri:

He is a clever man. Workshops, it’s all day on the court. A man who lives and breathes for basketball and has passed such a philosophy throughout the team. He is not an easy man, he is pushing you too hard but he has found everyone buttons and has reached a point to get the most out of everyone.

For Bartley

From the first moment, when I read it would be with us, I was happy. But when I saw him, and I saw how he was training and training I became more happy. He may have the scorer’s sign but he does a lot in the parquet, and he is a leader in everything. And in his bad game he will put his body on defense and attack to look at his teammates.

For the roster that is the same from the beginning

It is very important. The credit to the coach who has made these choices. Because even something he didn’t like, he corrected it he made it without making any other choice or addition. We don’t see it often, the same trunk for the next season. And especially in Greece. It will be something very beautiful for the coach. But it’s not my responsibility.

For Bilbao …

I haven’t been able to see enough matches. We thought we would play with Dijon. We didn’t imagine this would happen. A Spanish team is never an easy opponent. But we have days ahead of us to prepare.

Theoretically it is an advantage that the second match is at your headquarters. The palace is a stadium that gives you energy and the stadium and the world. It is very important that the second match will be there

For the week that passed?

We thought we could get the qualification. We could, we knew, got the victory with a difference in the first match, but winning a point or losing a point in such games is nothing. All the week rolled up and thank God we did.