Radonic: “The next games will give us some answers”

The Panathinaikos team is traveling to Istanbul before the away game against Fenerbahce by Dimitris Itoudis and Nick Kalathis as part of the 8th match day of the EuroLeague (18 November, 7.45 p.m., Novasports Prime and LIVE from Sportish) and is hoping for another win after dominating and the good performance he did against Baskonia.

Greens coach Dejan Radonic underscored the difficulty of the game against Fener while emphasizing the consistency his players must show throughout the match as there is no room for error.

“It will be a difficult game. Fenerbahce are in first place, they lost to Barcelona by just one point. They are in very good shape, they are one of the top teams in this year’s Euroleague. We have to be competitive.” Getting a lot of things right on both sides of the parquet and being focused all the time. Fener has many good players, many “weapons”. Montenegro came forward first.

Whether he singled out some weaknesses of the Turkish team, he emphasized:We did our analysis. We think of ourselves. We had some training sessions where we weren’t all together. I hope we will be ready to give the maximum we have at the moment. As I said, we’re playing against one of the best teams who are in great form. We have to be very focused for 40 minutes.”

Regarding Panathinaikos’ level of readiness this season: “It’s hard to talk about. I’ve talked a lot about preparation and the first games over the past two or three months. The next games will surely give us some answers. We have a lot of games ahead of us in a short time, we’ll see.”

In conclusion, he said whether he was satisfied with the improvement of the “Greens” against Baskonia:Yes, like I said after the game, it was a good game from us, especially in attack. The second half was excellent, we scored 60 points. It was a good game but we’ll see. We have one more game ahead of us and we will analyze it.”

On behalf of O Paris Lee explained: “We have to take it one day at a time. We had good preparation this week. We played well in the last game and we want to continue like that.”

On the weaknesses that the Turkish team has and which the “Greens” have to exploit, he said:We have to play the game. We showed what we can do last week, that we can defend and score. We have to build on that performance, trust each other even more and improve.”

Regarding the readiness of the “shamrock”: “I have the feeling that we are on the right track. We have Dwayne Bacon and Nate Walters is back and he’s finding his rhythm. The two are very important parts in what we want to do. Nate is setting things up, Dwayne is scoring and we’re definitely going in the right direction.”