By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Olympiacos was missing guards Vassilis Spanoulis Janis Strelnieks in the EuroLeague blowout loss to Gran Canaria and coach David Blatt addressed the absence of these two key players.
“We are playing without our two main ball guards. you take the two main ball guards out of any team and I want to see what they do. And this is not the first time we’ve been in this situation. But you got to deal with that too sometimes and we got to find a way,” Blatt said in the post-game presser.
The “Reds” had a poor offensive outing with 67 points (against their opponents’ 90) and nearly double turnovers (15) than assists (8) in what was possibly the team’s worst performance this season.
“This is the wrong week to have a trip to Gran Canaria, a double-[round] week with a very tough trip. We just did not respond well to it. It is on us, no excuses. Obviously, there are any number of things we didn’t do well and what we have to do is very quickly move forward,” Blatt also mentioned
Olympiacos will be very close to securing a playoffs spot with two wins in the upcoming games vs. Darussafaka Tekfen and Zalgiris Kaunas at home.