By Eurohoops Team / info@eurohoops.net
The 9th episode of “Final Four Stories” by Stoiximan is now live on Eurohoops.
Kostas Tsartsaris talked about 2009, when Panathinaikos won the Euroleague trophy in Berlin and later the Triple Crown.
Of course, he focused on the famous speech of the then coach of the “greens”, Zeljko Obradovic, who had said on January 14 of that year: “Everyone thinks that Panathinaikos has a perfect team. That it has a great chance of going to the Final Four. Who will go to the Final Four? This Panathinaikos? This is funny”.
Tsartsaris said in this regard: “This was Zotz’s way of provoking the team and each athlete individually a little. These are situations that we experienced in the video room as well, right? Things that were happening from the inside. But that day he wanted to take it a step further, to provoke us and make us go a little stronger in the future. The flow of the series changed, it is true, quite a bit. We were much more focused in all the games afterwards, but I think the most important thing is that our training sessions became a little more targeted. Each individual put in what they could to get the team where they wanted from the beginning. The pressure and anxiety started many days before, when the pairings had been announced. We knew that we would play Olympiacos. We all know what is happening in Greece, what the polarization is between these two opponents. So from the street, from social media, from people in the media, there was a lot of pressure and we experienced it to the fullest. ”
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