With the top of him Dino Mitoglou And giving the “young people” time, Panathinaikos comfortably defeated PAOK 93-83 and began his obligations at Stoiximan GBL.
After the clash, the Yuri Zdovc He expressed his disappointment on his team’s image in the first half, pointing out that his players looked like … terrifiedalthough they should have a great motivation in such a match.
At the same time, he stressed that he liked what he saw in the second half, but until then the match was already over.
In detail what he said at the press conference:
“Congratulations to Panathinaikos for victory. What can I say after such a match? I came with high expectations, Panathinaikos had a devil week, we training well, we also started quite well but then we disappeared from the stadium and started playing basketball again in the second half.
The second half was much better. We made a smarter foul, we started playing basketball. We competed, we were more aggressive, we were playing faster, we got the ball, we didn’t do it in the first half. We have played as I wanted and as we have been training in recent months. You need more against Panathinaikos. You need a very good match of all 12 players if you want to win them. I feel a little satisfied with how the match is over but no one cares about it. We have to forget about it and see the next one.
Before the match we worked well all week, we had a friendly. You never know how the team will react against Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. We had a Partizan friendly and we felt the level of Euroleague. That’s why I’m disappointed with the first half because you don’t have to motivate the players in such a match, they want to play well. I saw terrified faces when I was taking a timeout. In the halftime we talked, we changed our approach and in the second half I saw good things. Some players are stable and some have ups and downs. This is our goal. All players have a consequence if we want to compete in the league. The quality has gone up, every match will be difficult and we need all players. “
Source: Sport Fm
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