Bulgarian national basketball player Alexander Vezenkov commented on the loss of his “Olympiakos” with 71:78 (23:23, 15:25, 17:14, 16:16) in the big Greek derby against “Panathinaikos”, in which he was the most successful for his team with 19 points
Panathinaikos was the better team. We didn’t play as well as we can. This happens in the third game. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror, stop making excuses and get to work.
They were better and we allowed them easy shots. “Panathinaikos” has players who are big personalities, big class and also put in a lot of work. We let them get comfortable, they scored 48 points in the first half.
Then we tried, and if I’m not mistaken, we only got 30 points in the second half, but our offense… We made some bad choices. Maybe we were tense that we couldn’t get close. Once again, congratulations to Panathinaikos. We have to move forward because we have a match against Real on Tuesday and we have to react,” said Vezenkov.