Aleksandar Djordjevic: I am proud of my team

Fenerbahçe Beko hosted the Greek representative Olympiakos in the 20th-week match of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague. Aleksandar Djordjevic, head coach of the Yellow-Navy Blue team, who left the field with a 94-80 victory, made evaluations after the match.

Aleksandar Djordjevic, who spoke at the press conference held after the match according to the statements on the official website of Fenerbahçe, said, “I am proud of my team. We went through a very difficult process. We had serious problems that you did not know much about until we came to this match. We won this match with team spirit. “This is very important. The contribution of the Turkish players, starting with the captain, was incredible. Şehmus, Metecan, İsmet… 27 assists show team spirit and how well the ball is shared. It was a nice win with 12 turnovers in such an aggressive match.” made its assessment.

Transfer description

Asked whether they will transfer due to the injured players in the team, Djordjevic said, “As I say every year in every team, the market is always open to such things, but we will continue to struggle with what we have at the moment.” He replied with his words.

Pierria Henry’s health

About Pierria Henry’s health, the veteran head coach said, “Henry’s injury was a little frightening, we thought he had something new in his back because he had a hard hit in practice yesterday. We’ll rest tomorrow, then we’ll see.” made the statement.

Referring to the Covid-19 process, Djordjevic said, “We are waiting for what will happen every day, but we continue to work. Sometimes we worked with exercises that we could not get even 10 players. We had none of our tall people in a period, but we never lost our focus. The match against Darüşşafaka was a sad defeat. As I said then, the match “We weren’t in shape. If anyone is positive for Covid-19, we apply the process.” said.