Vassilis Spanoulis did not seem too happy when he appeared at the press conference after his team’s victory, As Monaco, about Barça in the fifth game of the quarterfinal playoff match of the Euroleague (85-84). The same was because of the little presence of journalists, which led him to open his intervention saying that “I see less journalists here when we win than when we lose.” Overcome this initial anger, the Greek coach showed his pride in what was achieved. “For this club it is a great success to be in the Final Four, we are not the Olympiacos, the Fener or Real Madrid,” Spanoulis said, which despite everything says that “we will prepare to achieve two victories there. It doesn’t matter if the final Four has gone many times, I always want to win it when I go.”
The Monaco coach highlighted the great game of Georgios Papagiannis and Mike James. “I thought that Papagiannis could give us things after seeing his good training yesterday. Today he has given us more than some things, it has been a great performance,” he said, before pointing out that “it has been a very hard game, as we expected and I am very proud of my players, they have played with big heart and have been fine in the important moments.”
About Mike James, author of the basket that decided the game, Spanoulis said that “Mike is a player who does not fear hot moments. Sometimes it will be with triples, sometimes with two baskets, he always finds the way.”
