{"id":498233,"date":"2026-05-24T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498233"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:59:09","slug":"georgios-bartzokas-we-suffered-tonight-but-we-deserved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/georgios-bartzokas-we-suffered-tonight-but-we-deserved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgios Bartzokas: We suffered tonight, but we deserved it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1403\" data-end=\"1634\"><strong data-start=\"1403\" data-end=\"1417\">Olympiacos<\/strong> are European champions for the fourth time in club history. The Reds defeated <strong data-start=\"1496\" data-end=\"1517\">Real Madrid 90-85<\/strong> in the 2026 EuroLeague Final Four final at the Telekom Center Athens, lifting the trophy after a hard-fought battle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1846\">After the triumph, <strong data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1677\">Georgios Bartzokas<\/strong> admitted how much his team had to suffer: \u201cWe feel wonderful. We deserved it. We suffered tonight. Real Madrid played a perfect game. That is why they are a huge club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1848\" data-end=\"2081\">The Greek coach also stressed the pressure Olympiacos had to carry: \u201cWe managed to win even though all the pressure was on our shoulders. I think we deserve it for the way we played all season, in the playoffs and at the Final Four.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2363\">Bartzokas also explained the adjustment on <strong data-start=\"2126\" data-end=\"2140\">Trey Lyles<\/strong>: \u201cThat is what we said at halftime. We talked about the adjustment on Lyles. We switched on him. Sometimes we trapped him.\u201d He also praised Real Madrid: \u201cScariolo and all the players, in this atmosphere, played very well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2365\" data-end=\"2508\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympiacos are European champions for the fourth time in club history. The Reds defeated Real Madrid 90-85<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":498232,"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-498233","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\/XGaDPALo.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498233","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=498233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498233"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498233"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498233"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}