The coach of “yellow” after the defeat from Olympiacos, said at the Press conference:
“It became a nice game. We were competitive. We had a bad first half offensively, which was good enough defensively. In the second half, released the ball well and had good long shots. This gave us a boost. The game was decided on details. In phases of individual, phases of experience. We have to be realistic, we were playing a team which is a level above us at this moment as a squad and in terms of experience. It is very good that we were able to resist and compete. In our field it happens very often, with good teams. We resist, we can many times win large groups. We’re close, but that we should forget about it. You will have to deal with the substance of the situation. The bottom line is that we have to win the next two games to secure the 3rd place without care about other results and approaching in the playoffs to see what will be the intersection. Good follow-up to the Olympic, I wish I didn’t have something serious Hunter, I understand how these injuries with the responsibilities of Olympiacos. I want to congratulate my players for their effort and to thank the people for the great support in what we are doing in the parquet”.
… Black out of Mars in the last period: “I can’t focus on one phase. I think we got some baskets, that we should not accept. Some baskets on the fast break, some baskets from the Smear. We made a mistake that was cheating and straight fast break. We had a bad function in this piece, we should turn our attention and fix it. Not only are these five minutes, and the first half of play in which the offensive were not effective. Sometimes we didn’t have a good function, sometimes we had a good operation but if it gets the shot all look bad. If we played 40 minutes of excellent, as we had some good periods in the second half, we’d win. But, there is the opponent. This opponent with the way he plays defense is difficult to set up and to read that resulting from the defence of the tactic. There is the experience and the personality of the players. Of course, play a role in fatigue”.
As for the “yellow” chose to send him to Brindisi on shots in the finale, Priftis stressed: “we have Not set on which player will be a foul. In a way, we played zone, which had some settings to απογοÏεÏσουμε the any input. We tried it this way, if we could, to create the right conditions for some cheating, having two players on the side of the ball to play overplay and two from the back to check the backdoor could steal a ball and then we had to tell where they get the ball we have to foul. We’re not in a logic of choice, we didn’t have this possibility”.
Priftis: We can defeat large groups
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