Olympiacos appeared below the occasion, knowing the 78-68 defeat by Monaco in the Final Four semifinal and staying out of the final at this year’s Euroleague Final Four.
At the end of the match in Abu Dhabi, the coach of the “reds”, George Bardzokashe described the defeat painful for his team, which failed to catch the performance standards that caught steadily during the season, while stressing that his whole failed to manage the pressure he had on his back.
In detail what the coach of Olympiacos said:
“We have to congratulate Monaco for Niki, they played loud for 40 minutes and deserved the victory. It is a painful defeat for us, the way it came. We played in a completely different way than the whole season. The most assists team had only 10, we had 18% on the three -pointer and it was clear that we were playing with a lot of pressure, we couldn’t manage it. Putting a player of 31 points of the 68 we put on shows that something was completely wrong.
We should be very aggressive, but also patient. We started to fail early, Vezenkov lost some shot, then the others were failing. If we exclude Fournier, we had 1/19 three -pointers! What other explanation to find except that we had to be calmer. All we count is to play with your philosophy and today we didn’t do that. We were very hasty. We arrived here because we were playing a particular basketball, today it was an emotionally charged game after three Final Four we didn’t get the title.
Many players were as if they wanted to finish the game early. When you don’t play as you get used to, you make a game that suits the opponent. We had so many isolation points and few of the ball circulation. We played completely different from what we are used to. We had pressure, expectations from the world are always high. I am grateful for their support, but we could not make them happy. We did the best of the season all the best over the problems, but today we couldn’t do it ».
Source: Sport Fm
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