The curtain falls on the Euroleague regular season tomorrow with Olympiakos welcoming Fenerbahce to SEF in a match that will decide the final ranking, but also the opponent of the two teams in the play offs.
There are many scenarios, however, Giorgos Bartzokas made it clear that in his own logic and that of the team, there is no question of choosing an opponent.
The Greek coach at the beginning of his statements informed about the situation of Nikola Milutinov, Philip Petrusev saying:
“Medically they are both fine, but coming from months out and Petrushev close to a month, it is different to be healthy and fit for EuroLeague matches at this level.
We will also see today’s training and decide if it will be one of the two or both. At the moment Philip is further behind, he’s actually done one and a half – two team training sessions and you can tell he’s not in the same shape as the others. It takes a few more days,” he said of Peters and Milutinov.
On the choice of an opponent: “Is it being discussed whether we will choose an opponent?” Olympiacos has never done it, neither me, nor any of our players. We respect the effort we have made so far. We have won 21 Euroleague games. We consider it very honorable for the team that for the 3rd year in a row we are in the Play Offs and we will claim our chances for the Final Four.
It is a great success, based on the conditions we had this year. Of course we will respect our effort and the opponent’s, we will play as best as we can and the people who made another sold out for so long. It will be a game of great intensity and great competition, as befits two play off teams.
The Euroleague is a very difficult league. In one victory, the second place is decided with the sixth. An unlucky moment, someone else’s lucky one shapes the situation”
He said of Fenerbahçe: “Fenerbahçe is currently playing very well, based on the results. She has peculiarities in her game. He shoots the same number of 2-pointers and 3-pointers.
It has 5-6 players who play with great confidence. Wilbekin, Biberovic, Sanli, Hayes, they have good numbers, they are playing well. Generally they are a team with a big points difference over Sarah and obviously it will be very difficult, they have had a very good second round, like us. Both Papagiannis and Sanli shoot well. From the three-pointer, Fener creates problems for the opponent and a very good overall team effort is required to succeed.”
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