Serelis on sport-fm.gr: “Sloukas remains the best playmaker in Europe – New additions need time”

Panathinaikos AKTOR made his best appearance this season, celebrating the imposing away victory over Efes, for the 5th matchday of the Euroleague!

After the match ended, Ergin Ataman’s assistant, Christos Serelisspoke to the emissary of News Bulletin 247 in Istanbul, Giorgos Petridis, deifying Slukas, emphasizing that the “greens” gained confidence through their good defense, while emphasizing that the new displays need time to acclimatize!

In detail what he said:



Regarding the injuries to Papagianni and Osmani: “Of course we are thinking about the children, especially George. I hope it’s not too serious, although his injury looked pretty serious. We hope he returns quickly.”

“We were very good defensively, and in the first half even though we conceded 42 points, we had a bad period in the first 2-3 minutes and the last minutes of the half, but the third quarter was our best defensive quarter in a long time. We got confidence from our defence, Kostas has provided 12 assists without any mistakes, he did everything right in how to move the ball and it was a very good and convincing performance. It helped our rotation that the opponent lost two players to injury, but we must not overlook the fact that we were also very good.”.

For Sluka: “Kostas is still the best playmaker in Europe. He lives for the tough situations, he can read where his teammates are, what defense the opponent is playing and where the opposing defender is. He was very focused from the start. We knew we hadn’t been playing well lately, we had talked about it. He came forward in the area of ​​creation, while he was also very good defensively. He proved again that when he is good, the whole team rolls better”.

On whether the controversy of the last few days made the team stubborn: “We don’t hear that. People can say what they want, but a team like Panathinaikos cannot be influenced by such situations. We are around 90 games into the season, obviously there will be bad days for some players. For example, Grant was not in a good moon at the beginning of the year and today was very pivotal. I don’t think his ability is in doubt. Holmes was very positive offensively and defensively. On a day when Nunn wasn’t good and effective, fouled early and had the wrong choices, the team scored 90 points and that’s very important.”.

On how easy it is for new players to integrate into the team: “It’s not easy. Obviously Holmes is a bit more difficult, because he still needs time to understand the European style of play, but game by game, especially defensively, he gives us a lot. Toliopoulos and Nikos, even though they are Greek, they will also need their time and Shorts, he is a kid who in his previous teams was the A and the Z, now he has to play a different role, which also takes time. But that’s the job of the coaches, to put it all together as best as possible so that the players can perform as well as possible on the court.”.

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