Bartzokas: «We must play our game on both ends of the floor»

In the Press Conference following the win over Lavrio, Giorgos Bartzokas thanked the fans that came to the gym to support our team and went on to express his disappointment in his players defensive performance.

"A big thank you to our fans that came in numbers and with lots of enthusiasm to watch the team play. The team though has to reciprocate with the best performance possible in games like this, offering a better spectacle, wtih better collaborations, more eagerness to play and we must look into how this is going to happen, because it's not the first or the second but rather the 3rd time in a row that we allow the opponent to score 45 points by half-time. To shoot threes with 57%. Of course, everyone understands that in games against Olympiacos, when the opponent is relieved by the pressure to win, everyone can play well, but we also faciliate that. We have too many players that get in and have to play the kind of basketball Olympiacos must be playing on both ends of the floor. If we think that only one side of the court is going to give us more minutes, better reputation, bigger contracts, then we are fools. All our players must show the same eagerness in the defensive end, so that we don't feel that much pressure in games like this one and that we can have the kind or rotation where everyone can share minutes and we don't have to use starters at the end to win the game. All the best to Lavrio".