Giorgos Bartzokas also spoke about the play offs against Barcelona after the win over Fener.

THAT Olympic prevailed over her Lantern and will fight with her Barcelona in the Euroleague playoffs. George Bartzokas he spoke at the press conference about his team’s progress during the season, while also talking about the Catalans.

In detail what Giorgos Bartzokas said:

“The game was a very representative image of what Euroleague means. From the beginning of October until now, every game has been a real game. The quality is at a high level, the tactics are fantastic. The event is the toughest in the world. I am grateful to the people, to the players, to the staff that we achieved the goal of the playoffs.

We finished the season with 22 wins, an amazing number. Everyone knows how many problems we faced and how we overcame these difficult situations. I would like to remind you that last year we had 24 wins and finished first. Now we look forward to the play offs with Barcelona,​​​​ without home field advantage. Basketball is the same everywhere and we have to stick together, be in the best possible physical condition to fight for the Final Four one more time. Congratulations to Jasikevicius and Fenerbahce, they played very well.

I don’t like all the matches being played together, because then you can’t watch other matches. I prefer what is being done now. We have many good players, they have to accept that in some games not everyone can play. We need 70 or more games before we go into the A1 playoffs, that’s that many, including the national teams in the summer. In some matches the player tells you in his “I can’t play anymore” way. I’m here to do the hard work.

This year with 18 wins you finished eighth. At 17, you were ninth or tenth. I remind you that Armani Milano, Partizan with 20-30 thousand people in each match, Red Star and other teams were left out of the playoffs. This shows the level of competition, it’s blood and sand every match. I don’t know if there was paraphilology about who would want to lose, is there anyone who preferred Monaco, with this quality, with this talent? I told the players before the game that I want to play against Barcelona, ​​not because I choose this team, but because I want to win tonight to play against them.

We didn’t play well, many fell behind. We could have gone much earlier but I understand the players, they are tired. We are preparing for the playoffs.

When we were in position 7-8, we had said that we were playing without key players, without Fal, without Milutinov, Williams-Goss, Walkup. Almost everyone is out, McKissick took six months to get fit. We tried to survive the first period, we also had a lot of births, finally we had a good second round and we enter the playoffs with good momentum. We played with our backs against the wall in difficult places. This is the important thing.

We have played many times with Barcelona and I want to tell you that I have many friends in the city, we spent 4-5 years as a family there, I have good memories. There’s no doubt they’re a top-level team, we’ve lost to them twice.”