THE Panathinaikos easily reached the victory with 80-68 against the Olympic In the first final of the Basketball League at OAKA, with Ergkin Ataman giving a lot of time at the beginning of the match to Alexander Samondurov.
The young forward was inappropriate in the match, but after the end of the first final between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, the Ergkin Ataman dropped him Alexander Samondurov For the effort and heralded a bigger role for him next season. He also referred to the failure of the two teams in the Euroleague Final 4, and noted that the win in the first Basket League final came despite the average match of Slouka, Nan and Erngome.
Ataman’s statements
“I think we defensively played a good game, we played hard, we didn’t let Fournier find easy points. We had a problem with the offensive rebounds in the first half with the points under the racket with Fal, but even if we didn’t make a good match,
Asked about failure at Final Four and Dimitris Giannakopoulos’ speech at OAKA: “I think for both teams it’s a great success at the Final Four. After 39 games it’s a success if you get to the Final Four. You’ve seen on the other hand how many teams did not succeed, teams like Real, Barcelona and Efes. Then it’s a basketball game. You can lose.
Last year it was all good for us and we did it, this year we played bad and lost. The same for Olympiacos. I read that you all criticize Olympiacos, who was first in the Regular Season, who dominated the regular season. OK he made a bad match and then of course the other games are not important … This is basketball. Now we are concentrated for the second match, we will try to do our best, we know that we are playing with a great team with great experience. We are concentrated on it and not anyone who says something, who is in the club, outside the club. These are journalists for you, these are your comments. ”
For Samondurov: “Samondurov is one of the best players in the second part of the season and in the semifinals and the quarter -finals and training. It is currently one of the best power forwards in the team. Tonight he was not lucky. No matter what he is young. We have a great deal of faith in him. We will continue to use him.
For spiritual preparation: “It is definitely my job to prepare the team spiritually. Tonight I saw that everyone was spiritually ready. I can’t say that I prepared the team myself, the fans with this atmosphere played a very important role.
In my philosophy I never think about the next match. I focused on tonight’s match and then we will prepare for the next, Sunday. I use my players based on what I understand from my team every time. “