Panathinaikos basketball players suffered their sixth defeat in 15 Euroleague matches in Milan on Thursday, and after the duel with Olimpia, coach Ergin Ataman did not hide his disappointment with the way the 2024 European champion is playing.
PAO lost 96:89 in a game in which they were only in the game for the first 15 minutes.
"We saw that we are not that good a team and that we do not belong to the group of favorites to win the Euroleague," said the Turkish expert.
The "Mannequins" did whatever they wanted on offense, scoring 17 three-pointers, eight of which were by Armoni Brooks.
"We are not a serious team and we are not able to stop Olimpija's offensive characteristics," Ataman added.
Panathinaikos led 26:21 at the end of the first quarter, then stopped.
"Olimpija played a good game, and after the first quarter we completely lost our defensive concept due to Brooks' three-pointers. In the last quarter there was chaos in basketball," said Ataman.
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