OR National Greece He was defeated for the first time at the Eurobasket 2025, losing 80-77 to Bosnia, in a match that fought without Yannis Antetokounbos, did not get a good performance, but also had quite a few dietary complaints. After the defeat of the team, the leader of our representative band Kostas Papanikolaoutalked about what happened during the game, what was going on, about the points that international and dietary complaints should improve.
“I think we didn’t have the clear mind, in a big part of the game. I remember characteristically two or three of my own phases, which I couldn’t find a better choice because I had no clear mind. Many can go bad in a game, but we have to have the calm and calm. Costas Papanikolaou first mentioned.
For the second half made 18-0 and if they paid them: “I don’t have such a clear picture of the game to answer it, but as I said before we have to have the clear mind and make the right choices, no matter if the game goes well or has been turned around for us.”
As for whether the opponent’s body size difference was blamed: “I think from now on all the groups that will be in front of us will be in size, have physical strength and we want to add it to our game. I think we did it at first, we fell a little to our intensity, we have come back.
For the discomfort he had in the middle of: “I don’t know we don’t have a picture yet, a tightening is, I don’t think it’s something more serious. We have all our medical team here, it will be on top to make sure to play on Thursday.”
For 3/3 and defeat: “We are at the Eurobasket we do not get into the game to lose, we can not say that we will learn from a defeat. Obviously we do not go in to lose but it can show us, not teach, not to make the same mistakes in the next game.”
Whether they have in mind the score and the next opponent: “The most important thing is to be good, the team is at the level they need to be ready to fight the opponent regardless of. You are definitely taking a look but you have no choice, because you do not know how every game can evolve, what the team can find, because we have to do so in these tournaments.
For his dialogues with the referees: “I don’t think they had a good game, but it is not an excuse, equal to the part of the concentration, and that we lost our orientation a little bit in the game, I think it is one of the pieces we should not let it affect us, and this was shown by the end of the game and we had a game we had to play.