Zeljko Obradovic appeared in the press conference after the game satisfied with the pace his team kept throughout the game, but also troubled by Ian Vougioukas’ injury, and noted: “We started out very aggressively in our defense, since this is something that we wanted and managed to do it from the very start. We had a very good tempo both offensively and defensively; the only exception is probably the time between 20’ and 23’. I was very satisfied with the rest of the period. Congratulations to the players and I wish we continue similarly.”
When asked about Ian Vougioukas’ injury he said: “The new MRI will show a lot, so tomorrow we will know more. It is a kind of injury the pain of which the athlete can put up with. We will see..."
Alexis Kyritsis, who attended the press conference, appeared to be satisfied with the performance of his team and said among other things: “I deem that we played a very good game against a team that has experienced players and its ranking is not representative of its quality. We pressured the opponent team, led it to turnovers, and managed to sink some easy baskets. We were focused throughout the game and are now turning our sights to the next game that is rather difficult.”
Ikaros’ coach, Thanassis Skourtopoulos, appeared optimistic for the rest of the competition and underlined: “This is an induction week that we are currently undergoing with the guys and we have several changes that we need to make in our game. We have a lot of work ahead of us and the first thing we must correct is our defense that is the worst in the competition. Chemistry does not help us much, since we have many players who play in the same positions. Today we had a poor success rate in our shooting, but these guys have talent and starting Monday we will begin working hard to enter a new program in order to reach a better outcome at the championship.”
Fanis Koumpouras said: “You all know that we are in a very poor competitive state. We changed coach and want to start afresh. We worked on some new things and had a good performance for several minutes. We were rather unsuccessful in our shooting, especially for a game against Panathinaikos. We need to work very hard in order to improve our performance."
