{"id":497941,"date":"2026-05-22T20:43:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497941"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:43:51","slug":"georgios-bartzokas-we-are-not-arrogant-we-are-happy-but-focused-on-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/georgios-bartzokas-we-are-not-arrogant-we-are-happy-but-focused-on-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgios Bartzokas: We are not arrogant, we are happy but focused on the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1749\">Georgios Bartzokas kept a low profile after <strong data-start=\"1566\" data-end=\"1580\">Olympiacos<\/strong> defeated Fenerbahce and advanced to the EuroLeague final. The Greek coach praised his players and the fans, but stressed that it was only the first step of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"2046\">\u201cCongratulations to the players and our fans for this performance. It was the first step in this process, in this weekend. It was important to play together, as a team. We did it from the beginning, we played hard defense and in the end we were solid defensively for 40 minutes,\u201d Bartzokas said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2048\" data-end=\"2293\">He also explained the key to the game: \u201cWhen we controlled our emotions, we moved the ball and found opportunities for open shots.\u201d On Walkup, he added: \u201cHe set the rhythm, you saw him sacrifice himself on every possession to stop his opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2295\" data-end=\"2611\">Bartzokas refused to get carried away: \u201cI don\u2019t like using big words. It is too early to say if this is the best version of Olympiacos. We are not arrogant. We are happy and satisfied, but for now let\u2019s focus on the next game.\u201d On Fournier, he said: \u201cHe always plays with his heart. He is a leader, he is emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2613\" data-end=\"2758\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgios Bartzokas kept a low profile after Olympiacos defeated Fenerbahce and advanced to the EuroLeague final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":497924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Georgios-Bartzokas.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497941"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497941"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497941"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}