Ataman: “If you don’t work as a team, then you have catastrophic situations – miserable defense, they” killed “their center”

The colorless Panathinaikos He was constantly chasing the unstoppable 16-point Barcelona and eventually lost 103-96 at the Telekom Center Athens, knowing his first loss in this year’s Euroleague.

After the clash, the Ergkin Ataman was clearly disappointed From the image of his team, and he stood in the very incomplete and difficult preparation of the “green” as a major cause for their negative performance.

At the same time, he admitted that the above is one intractable problem that is called upon to solve the Panathinaikos.

In detail what he said at the press conference:

For what they brought to defeat: “The worst thing when you play at home is to give the guests confidence at the beginning of the match. We made this mistake. We started without playing defense, sophistic, we gave them 11 points lead. We tried to change something but this difference in the first half was the same in the whole match.

We played miserable defense, Barcelona played great, punished our mistakes with 16 three -pointers, “killed” our centers under the basket with Sengelia, Veseli, Willie. The Centers did not offer defense and attack. They deserved the victory and won. “

For what Jay Shorts and Gedi Osman and if he played a role that they were unprepared: “There is a reality in basketball. To be ready you have to work. We didn’t have time to work. We started with a devil week, we have a problem. We have a problem. We will try to solve it but we have a problem. This is the reality of basketball, team sports. If you do not work as a team, then you have these destructive situations. “