Ataman: “I don’t think Grigonis will play in the playoffs – we’ll see next week for Lesor”

Friday night (11/04, 21:15), the Panathinaikos Aktor He welcomes the Red Star to the OAKA for the 34th and final Euroleague regular season game, with the Greens learning their opponent in the playoffs of the competition.

Speaking to the club’s media day, the “Greens” technician, Ergkin Atamanhe said that the playoffs will hardly compete in the playoffs Grigoniswhile the state of Matthias Lesor It will be clarified in next week!

At the same time, he also mentioned the league’s intentions to increase the number of teams from the new season.

In detail what Ergkin Ataman said:



On whether Grigonis will catch the play off: “I don’t think he will play in the playoffs because he has not been training with the team for 6-7 months and I don’t think so.”

For Lesor: “He works every day and we will see his condition next week. I don’t know if he can play in the playoffs, but I don’t think of the players who are injured now. Jurcheven returned and had a very good game in Monaco. We have Gabriel and we can use Mitoglou at 5. When Lesor is 100% he will enter. ”

For the stay of Oman: “It is a great job for the club to continue with the same players and not make many changes, because we made changes 2 years ago and had great success. Now is the time to continue with the base and with additions of 1-2 players that will always be at the high level. Of course everyone wants to win and come the 7th and 8th star. But the most important thing is to be at the high level. If all goes well, the 8th star will come. “

Whether Partizan and Asteras should be in the Euroleague: “The next season should have all the teams that were this year because it was a great season. It was one of the best seasons in Euroleague in terms of competition. And of course there will be other groups that can participate. I see people who are afraid of the most teams in Euroleague.

They are 20.22.24 teams and we can play more devils. Why do we only play 7.8 or 9 devils? We can play 12-13 as it is in the NBA. Where 5 games play a week. And there you see that every year the salary Cap increases. They pay this money because they do 5 workouts a week. With more games people will have more fun, the revenue from television will be more. I think we need to be ready for that. It doesn’t scare me. We can play 3 games every week, two at Euroleague and one in the Greek league. I think this is very important for the future of Euroleague. If they want to look like the NBA they have to follow it. There they play 5 games a week. Why do they do it? Because there is money and when you play games you make money. There is no money in the workouts. ”