Livadiotis: “We were left with energy at the end-historical match with Greece”

The coach of Cyprus, Christopher Livadiotisholds the character shown by his team and attributes to the lack of energy at the end defeat by Bosnia.

“It was a historic day for us, our first Eurobasket match. We had good times in the game. We kept fighting and holding the character we showed. In the fourth quarter we were near, but we didn’t have the strength to close the match as we would like. But I am optimistic that we will be better then. Tigas had an injury in the end, the doctors will be examined and I hope he can play, first for him because he was looking forward to this event“, He stressed.

As for Saturday’s match with Greece, he said: “The game with Greece is historic, we are brothers. We grew up with Greek basketball, we’ve got habits from there and we all have heroes from Greek basketball. Greece has other goals than us, it wants to reach the end and I hope it does. I will be very happy for them”

Cyprus’ top scorer with 22 points, Konstantinos Simitzis, stressed: “Every player wants to perform well. My teammates have helped me a lot. I put some free shot in the start and found the psychology to continue. We look forward to the game with Greece from the day of the draw. Let’s hear the same hymn. For 40 minutes we will be opponents and we want to be competitive“