Euro League
Priftis: “There is a lot of data that has not allowed us to find homogeneity”
Looking ahead to tomorrow’s game (November 2nd) against Villeurbanne (9 p.m., Novasports Prime and LIVE from Sportish), Dimitris Priftis explained that the injuries and the corona virus had not made it possible for Panathinaikos to find homogeneity.
With Ioannis Papapetrou and Lefteris Bohoridis staying in Athens, Panathinaikos left for France, where they will meet Villeurbanne tomorrow (2.11.) (9 p.m., Novasports Prime and LIVE by Sportish) in the 26th game of the EuroLeague.
In his statements, the experienced coach referred to the absences of the two internationals and the problems that the “Kleeblatt” have been struggling with since the beginning of 2022 and which have not allowed them to find a rhythm, and emphasized that what he mentioned not the case are excuses, but facts.
The “Klee” technician explained in detail:
For the game against Villeurbanne: «Villeurbanne is consistently good enough. They are strong as a team and very good one-on-ones, an element that cost us a lot at home. It’s a very athletic team. We should try to keep them in front of us whether they have the ball or not. We should avoid backdoor situations and surprise situations so that we can go into a more settled game and control the rhythm.”
For the picture of Panathinaikos in the game against Larissa: «It’s a very difficult time because all the teams, some less, some more, have either been suffering from Covid or injuries. It can be said that this fatigue creates some situations that make the games more defensive, harder and more settled.
Obviously we started the game against Larissa with the wrong approach. If we started with the energy from the second half things would go a lot better. Of course we have to consider some other issues since we played day by day and with travel in between. “Also, our squad is limited and we have a lot of things to deal with with injuries and other problems.”
For the absences in view of the game against Villeurbanne: «Obviously John is out and it’s a very important loss for us. This is the second time this season that we will lose him for a long time. This has been on his mind since the beginning of the year. Also, on Tuesday we had an unexpected problem with Bohoridis and as it is at the moment the team is at a significant loss.
As I mentioned above, there is some data that doesn’t allow the team to develop the homogeneity that we want at this point in time and with the Cup in mind. After Covid lost Papagiannis for a while, we lost Macon, who came back for one game and then was out again for almost two weeks. Evans, who was at the peak of his performance, was left out for a few games. In addition, a new player, Jovic, who has basketball value but is not in the best possible physical condition and needs some time.
There are some things that are not easy to handle and have not allowed us to be at the desired level. These are not excuses, but facts. Nedovic, who is our best player, got into the rhythm he’s in now from November. If we had brought him to Barcelona, he might not have played in Larissa. I would like to say that all this requires some manipulation, not only on my part, but also on the part of the players.
For his part, George Papagiannis explained:
To motivate Panathinaikos: «We treat every game the same whether it’s the Euroleague or a national event. Sure, we will go there for victory. At home we lost to Villeurbanne, who played very well. We want to show a positive image in France.
The truth is that we didn’t play well in Larissa, especially in the first half. We showed character in the second half and managed to turn things around by having an excellent Nedovic in our line-up. If you look at his numbers in attack, you can see exactly what he did. We’ve had some positive performances lately and we want to revisit them. It is now also a question of prestige».
For the image of Panathinaikos: «From the game against Efes the team shows a positive face, with the exception of the game against Larissa and that of Barcelona. Unfortunately we lost several games on points in the Euroleague, which hurts us. From now on we will try to do the best possible in the event”.
For the game against Villeurbanne: «When they play at home, they show their best face. For our part, we definitely want to get an away win, we haven’t managed to do that in the tournament so far.”
Jessica Martinez is an author at Sportish, a publication dedicated to sports news and analysis. She covers various topics related to sports and provides insightful commentary on the latest developments in the world of sports.
Mustafa Fal has delivered a monstrous performance in international matches and Vassilis Skoundis is tackling the problem, inevitably involving the first teacher of the art, Panagiotis Fassoulas.
“The gypsy saw his generation and his heart rejoiced,” says a proverb whose meaning fits the occasion… I mean, the occasion of Fal seeing the other Fal opposite him and enjoying him normally and in accordance with the law!
Let the necessary recommendations be made…
One of them is Mustafa Fal, who was born in Paris on February 23, 1992, he is French, he plays in his country’s national team, his hat comes from Senegal, he has been looking since he was 2.18. He is in his third season at Olympiacos…
Yusufa and Taco
The other person who competed against him yesterday is Youssoufa Fal, who was born in Dakar on January 12, 1995, is a Senegalese with French nationality, has a height of 2.21 m and is competing in Villerban for the third consecutive time…
There is of course the much wilder Taco Fal, who was also born in Dakar on December 10, 1995, spent three seasons in the NBA, is now sizzling in China and has had his head tickling the feet of God since he was 229 cm tall!
Mustafa, Yusufa and Tako have no relationship or kinship between them: they are synonymous, apart from the coincidence that ensures that they are all three kilometers long!
The triple-double figure in Pylaia
He had attacked the Olympiacos central defender again on the 11th of last month, on the occasion of the triple-double he scored in the game against PAOK in Pylaia, rare in our area, but he wanted to make us laugh for a while as his only goal!
At first he missed Yannis Fileris who treated him properly, but I also have some stitches for his fur!
To say my sin, I laughed and liked Fileris’ pun on… Wrong!
Fasoulas and… Lumidis
In any case, “Pani” was like…Lumidis in the field of coffee roasting, plus he made heads turn with soft nails with his unique and unparalleled skills.
To paraphrase Lumidis’ advertising slogan: in our case it was “Everyone in their own way and Fasoulas in their caps“!
Since the conversation broke out, the experienced PAOK and Olympiacos international center has recorded five triple-doubles with points, rebounds and blocks, which are of course rarer than those that include assists.
He scored the first of these goals on October 15, 1988 (PAOK-Panionios) with 18 points, 18 rebounds and 13 blocks.
Two weeks later he “wrote” the second with 20-18-11 against Apollon Patras, on November 19 he followed the third against Sporting (29-19-15), while in the 1990/91 season he added two more: 18 – 14-10 with Peristeri and 19-12-11 with Iraklis.
Vrankovic’s record and the “wow” with Green
Similar triple feats with plugs have also been achieved by Stojan Vrankovic (who is already the record holder in EuroLeague history with 10 in a Fortitudo Bologna-Cibona Zagreb game) with Panathinaikos, Anthony Cook with PAOK, Mike Smrek with Dafni, PJ Brown with Panionios, Efthymis Renzias with the National Youth Team and Antonis Fotsis with the Greens youth team.
On Friday night in Lyon, Fall broke the bank when he nearly followed in Draymond Green’s footsteps and posted a rare triple-double without scoring in double figures.
He reached the final horn with two points, seven rebounds, seven assists and eight blocks, while the Warriors’ cocky forward did so on February 10, 2017 against the Grizzlies with 11 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals and just two points.
From 0.8 to 8
Fal had grabbed 14 rebounds in the game against Red Star while he dished out seven assists in the game against Baskonia, so there is no news here…
The wave was caused by the eight caps, because on the one hand there are a lot of them and on the other hand the so-called do not have a big problem with davtes.
Before the game with Villerban, he had taken 12 shots in 14 games, and suddenly he flashed and thundered from a 0.8 average to eight!
What is the key quality a good blocker should have?
The cap for Moretti, the timing and the caps
Instead of answering, I’ll give the floor to a specialist and expert, none other than Panagiotis Fasoulas, who, among other things, scored the most decisive international match in the history of Olympiacos!
I am referring to the match against Paolo Moretti in the third game of the European Champions Cup playoff series in the 10993/94 season, thanks to which Piraeus qualified for the Final 4 in Tel Aviv.
“Everything is a question of timing“he explained to me when I asked him how he cultivated and developed his art.
“You need to know and understand where, when and how to jump to block the opponent’s shot. In addition to this sense of space and time, speed of movement and long arms also play a role. I did the caps and even covered the ball so we could go straight to attack” explains Fasoulas, who is already drawing the moral lesson of the story…
“Attack requires talent, but defense depends on will.”
The spider web
Last but not least, this desire flowed from the… gums of Fasoula, who went out and trapped his opponents in the spider’s web from which no one could escape.
From his appearance in the early 80s until his retirement in 1999, he reduced defense not only to a science, but to a spectacular spectacle!
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
Matias Lessor received hundreds of interesting messages from friends of Panathinaikos AKTOR about his injury and quickly explained what the situation is.
Matias Lessor’s injury was the only black mark in the game against Armani Milano. For this very reason, the people of Panathinaikos AKTOR didn’t enjoy it as much as they would have liked. At least until they received the results of the sports high school exams.
The day after the game, it became clear that the problem was not serious. However, Matias Lessor explained in detail how he feels after his injury and thanked everyone for their interest.
Matias Lesor’s message in detail:
“Thank you everyone for your lovely messages and your interest. I’m feeling much better. It just hurts, but I’m fine“.
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
End of alert for Matias Lesor at Panathinaikos AKTOR. The French center has a bad back due to the injury and will miss tomorrow’s (December 24th) game against Prometheus in Patras (20:15, ERT3 and LIVE on Sportish), but his tests were clear.
Matias Lesor will play in tomorrow’s (December 24th) away game of Panathinaikos AKTOR against Prometheus (8:15 p.m., 3 a.m. and LIVE from Sportish) on matchday 11 of the Stoiximan Basket League due to the lower back injury he sustained in this game , do not compete Armani Milano. But he escaped the worst.
The French center was tested immediately after the return of the “Greens” from Milan, who were “clean”. In other words, they didn’t show that the bone was broken in the middle – which everyone feared when they saw the Frenchman slaughtered on the ground. But Lesor is still in pain, ruling him out of the game against Prometheus and considered doubtful for next week’s EuroLeague game against Red Star.
With Lesor out, Oleg Balcherovski, Kostas Antetokounmpo and Dinos Mitoglou will fill the center position in the game against Prometheus.
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
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