Roger Grimau, head coach of Barcelona, spoke before the Game 3 of the EuroLeague quarterfinals, where his team will face Olympiacos.
Barcelona managed to win the second game of this series, keeping their hopes alive for advancing to the Final Four. However, if they want to make it there, they’ll need to make at least one break in Piraeus.
“We enter with good feelings despite the loss in Andorra, in a game we would have liked to win. Now we are focused on these two games starting from Tuesday. If we could choose, we wouldn’t play, but we have to adapt, manage it as best as possible, recover, and look forward. This will be a tough week in Athens, we have to try to control the rhythm of the game, try to control the ball well, it is very important not to allow them easy points.
We would have liked to come here with a 2-0 lead, but there is a lot of parity in this EuroLeague, and we knew we were coming here to win. We have an obligation. We have unwavering confidence, a tough game awaits us, we have to do a lot of things well and almost perfectly because they punish, we have to be calm and play our game. It wasn’t easy and it won’t be, and we have to give one hundred percent mentally and physically,” said Roger Grimau.