Already on Tuesday, the decisive match of the Euroleague quarter-final series will be played between Panathinaikos of Athens and Maccabi of Tel Aviv.
Before the upcoming match, the head coach of the Israeli team Oded Kattash reviewed the situation of injured players.
“Of course we would like everyone to be healthy and in their best condition. We’ll wait for the final tests to see if there’s even a slight chance Baldwin will be able to play. We’ll see. Everything is fine with DiBartolomeo and he is ready to play,” said the strategist.
The strategist of the Tel Aviv team did not hide his pain due to the defeat suffered in the fourth match of the series.
“When the game ended, we felt we had missed an opportunity. We let them score enough points. We could eliminate some things, at least slow down some. Nevertheless, we have one more chance in the fifth match”, said O. Kattash.
However, history is not on the side of the Tel Aviv team – no EuroLeague team has yet managed to win the decisive fifth game of the series away from home.
“We need to do something that no one has been able to do so far. It’s a crazy season for us though and we want to have a chance to achieve that. I really believe we can do it. This season in Athens we won once in the regular season and once in the playoffs, so we really can’t give up. Rivals who will play at home will feel more pressure. We just don’t have anything to lose in this situation,” the head of the Tel Aviv team looked at the upcoming match. trainer.
Meanwhile, Panathinaikos’ strategist Ergin Ataman revealed that Juancho Hernangomez is ready for the fifth game of the series.
“Juancho is ready to play. It’s a great run and we have home court advantage again as we won in Belgrade. We have achieved many solid victories in the OAKA arena this year. The opponents play good basketball, so we have to be 100 percent ready. They are an attacking team that scores a lot of points. I can’t think of a way to curb them. Our task is simply to score more than our opponents,” the Turk thought.
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