Olympiacos: The six present talk about the importance of the four Final 4 consecutive series

Kostas Papanikolaou, Giannoulis Larentzakis, Sakil McCilli, Thomas Wokap and Mustafa Fal have completed- under George Bardzokas’ instructions- four consecutive appearances in Final 4 Syoligas over the past four years and all have been talking to Olympiacosbc.gr For this historical achievement, a few days after the victory-qualification over Real Madrid.

For him George Barzokathis achievement is of dual meaning. It depends, as he said to olympiacobc.gr, from ‘What perspective do you see. Assuming that professional sport success is only the first place, your presence in a Final 4 is the beginning to do so. Something that is never guaranteed that it will happen. Because it has to do with too many things. Often luck, good players ‘day, bad players, opponents’ ability and so on. The presence in four consecutive Final 4 certainly certifies the stability that our club emitted. Four times in a row there is a great achievement. There are teams, coaches, players who have never done it. We have done it four times in a row, with different conditions each time. With a home advantage, disadvantage, in five games, always with very good opponents. I am happy to be present at the top European professional basketball appointment”

The leader of the group, Kostas Papanikolaouhe said: ‘This is the effort of a whole year that no one can guarantee what the result will be. The best season to do on the regular season, you can make a bad playoff series and be out. So it’s an important achievement for all groups that get there”

Olympiacos made it in 2022, overcoming the obstacle of Monaco in the 5th game of the Playoffs series, made it in 2023, overcoming Fenerbahce’s obstacle with the same three, made it in 2024, surpassing Barcelona’s obstacle to Barcelona, ​​and did the barrier of Barcelona. If for some this “seems” easy, the team’s coach emphasizes: “How difficult it is is not described in words. It requires eight -month trouble. Stress, effort, intense emotions – good and bad – and all of this can go “a shoot” on a shot, a bad day. So I find it very difficult, so it is important”

With Captain stressing: ‘In all the Final 4 I’ve been with Olympiacos, it wasn’t easy … even the back2back. We played in 2013, the fifth match with Efes. In 2017, fifth game with Efes. And in recent years, in 2022 fifth game with Monaco, then with Fener, then in Barcelona, ​​Real was Real this year. In recent years we have faced 80% of the top historical league teams to qualify. Real, Barcelona, ​​Fener are three groups with continuous appearances in Final 4 and one of the best trophy contenders” PAP agreed with and McCill. “I think the first years were much more difficult because I was young and I didn’t know what to expect. This year I knew we would win with anyone we played, because our team is so good. I think, of course, that the hardest part is to conquer the mug”

On his part, the Giannoulis Larentzakishe said: ‘So as the event has been done in recent years, it is very competitive, the games are all very important and I think it is a good luck to get there, in a Final 4, based on the competition and level of the league” In the difficulty, not only the playoffs, but the whole year the Thomas Wocapap: “It’s not only the stage of the playoffs, but the whole year. It’s the big games, the games you think don’t matter, in October. Staying concentrated for so long is hard”

Before checking out his ticket for the Final 4 of Belgrade, Kaunas, Berlin and Abu Dhabi, Olympiacos had shown great stability and mid -season. Something that as the Mustafa Fal It is extremely important: ‘Throughout the season you have a lot of ups and downs, a lot of injuries, many things can happen. Not being able to be consistent, at this level is very difficult and we are blessed that we have succeeded”

With the most experienced in this process, Kostas Papanikolaouto report that ‘Before any Final 4 I am focus on living at the moment, because you never know when you will be given the opportunity to experience something similar or if it will be your last“