Bartzokas: «We have to trust in our team»

The coach of Olympiacos, Giorgos Bartzokas, focused on the his team’s bad performance, but also on the fact that this defeat should be the cause for a reboot.

“First of all, I would like to congratulate Armani for the win and their desire to do so. Despite they have no chance at advancing to the playoffs, they played with huge motivation. They fought and this is apparent in the number of steals they made, but also by the number of turnovers they forced us to make. You cannot win a game like this one with 19 turnovers. They also won all challenged balls, which proves they were greatly motivated against us. We played as if we are an arrogant team. We wanted to win without fighting. Without fighting for the possessions, just like we had been doing up to now and that was anyway what brought us to the top of the ranking. As I said, we have to congratulate Armani, move on and trust in our team. We were coming off eight straight wins and sometimes, you need something like this to happen to put things into perspective. A defeat like this one shows the coach how to do just that”.