With control of the race constantly and John again on a great night, our national team was imposed by Israel 84-79, closing an appointment with Lithuania in the quarter-finals of this year’s Eurobasket.
After the clash, the Vassilis Spanoulis He spoke at the press conference and congratulated his players on their mentality and their concentration, and pointed out that it is very important that the victory came despite the miss on three -pointers.
At the same time, he made his comment to address arbitration towards him Giannis Antetokounbosand referred to the upcoming game with the Lithuania For the octave.
In detail what he said:
“We checked the game from the first second. We had some times when we lost our minds, especially in defense, and lost some easy baskets in surprise. But we had good distances, we generally played good defense and got this victory that is important. Congratulations to my players for their mentality and gathering, because we were able to win the day we shoot worse in this tournament. This says a lot about me.
It is important to win when the shots are not coming in and that can happen. It happens sometimes in the very good teams on the shots. And we’re not just good on the shot, we’re great. It happened today, but we found a way to win and that shows that we have character.
Everyone knows that the Lithuanian school in basketball is great, they are always competitive and they have a lot of people. They have a very good team, they have big bodies, they know how to play basketball and will be a difficult game.
Israel chose a defense without much help, so John didn’t have as many assists as in previous games. He was playing one against one. We get what the opponent gives us. If they play traps, we have a shooter, if they don’t play with help, go to one. So we built the team. I expect John to usually have 2-3 players on him and in the next game to be respectful, as great players respect him, like him.
To have Samondurov here, he goes to say that I trust him, like all children. I have told everyone to be ready. There are times when a child does not play in one match and play quite a bit. Alexander was ready, mature as always and helped us with both his calm and his rebounds and his defense. He pulled out Physicality. It helped like all children today.
We have experienced players who have played in front of more people than we will see on Tuesday. I do not believe in curses, qualifying for the semifinals, but in good teams and hard work. And we work hard.
Rebounding is a very important thing. We emphasized how to attack the match from their belt and how to deal with Avdiya. We saw Serbia and France outside, we didn’t want to be a victim of surprise. I believe we will be even better then. “
Source: Sport Fm
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