“Walkap's leg swelled much more after the match with Panathinaikos”

Olympiacos struggled to overcome Karditsa's resistance 85-73 in the Stokesman Basketball League, and Giorgos Bartzokas admitted that the match against Panathinaikos on Friday took most of the energy from his players, and as a result they had to push for victory in the league. last.

In addition, the Greek doubles coach addressed Walkup's injury problem, hoping that he and Williams-Goss will be in good shape ahead of the Euroleague week against Anatolo Efes on Tuesday (19/03, indoor) and Fellermann on Thursday (21). /03, inside).

For the match: “The match against Panathinaikos always drains your energy. Everyone considered the match with Karditsa a procedural. We have difficult matches ahead of us. Today, just like with Lavrio, we entered the match. We had to push ourselves to win. The end”

For the continuation of the European League and if they obtain the absolute lead for fourth place: “DrI agree, there are many teams at one point, we are watching the match with Efes now, trying to control the immediate horizon. Walkup's leg swollen much more after the game against Panathinaikos and we look forward to him and Williams-Goss being well and doing well in the future.”

Erito Leko's coach said in the press conference:

“Congratulations to Karditsa. They played a very good match. As for us, it is the third home match in a row after Marosi and Lavrio, in which we are walking around the field pretending that we have very difficult European matches. I would not like to say that. “It is not true. This is correct. Just two days ago we had a very difficult match (against Panathinaiklos) followed by two more matches on Tuesday and Thursday (against Efes away and Villerbane). But the bottom line is that if you keep walking, on the pitch, as we did defensively and offensively, this image will be created, which is not only befitting of the people who come to the pitch, but also of the quality of the players.

Basketball needs strength, it needs speed, it needs quick thinking, it needs focus, and we don't have that in the last home games. In the end we won them, we played well for 5-10 minutes, but it is understandable that we have to fix that, in view of the third round as well. “The matches will be very difficult again, with better opponents than we have played recently and it will take more effort.”