Destruction in a row in Fenerbahçe! Dimitris Itoudis exploded: It’s embarrassing…

In the 17th week match of Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, our representative Fenerbahce Beko took the stage in the tough Zalgiris Kaunas away game. Fenerbahce Beko lost the match 86-66, while the big decline in yellow-dark blue people continued. After the fight, Itoudis spoke harshly.

AWESOME STUCK FROM ANTETOKOUNMPO

Fenerbahçe Beko signed a valuable transfer in order to strengthen its staff after the injury problems and bad course. Kostas Antetokounmpo, who was released by the Chicago Bulls, one of the NBA teams, joined the team. At the beginning of the fight, Kostas’ awesome dunk was one of the best moves of the match for Fenerbahçe.

INCREDIBLE FALL

Fenerbahçe Beko started the EuroLeague by winning 9 of their first 10 games. Afterwards, with the effect of injury problems, 1 win was achieved in the last 7 matches. Regardless of the field, there is a losing streak of 5 matches, and the last 3 matches have been lost in the home field.

With this result, Fenerbahçe Beko lost their 5th consecutive defeat in the league. The yellow-dark blue team will be the guest of Panathinaikos away next week. Zalgiris, who won a total of 9 wins in the league after 1 match after a break, will take the stage away from Virtus Bologna.

BOOKER DOWNLOAD 10 NUMBERS

Devin Booker 10 points, 4 rebounds for Fenerbahçe Beko; Johnathan Motley 8 points, 5 rebounds; Carsen Edwards finished with 8 points and 1 assist. Edgaras Ulanovas 10 points, 5 rebounds for Zalgiris Kaunas; Ignas Brazdeikis 17 points, 3 rebounds; Tomas Dimsa 14 points, 2 rebounds; Laurynas Birutis had 13 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

‘THE WAY OUR DEATH IS A SHAME’

Head coach Dimitris Itoudis spoke at the press conference held after the fight. Itoudis; “First of all, I would like to congratulate everyone on the new year, and also congratulate Zalgiris on their victory. I want to apologize to the fans. Unfortunately for us the new year started very badly. Today Zalgiris struggled much harder than us, and their three-pointer percentage was also better than us. I hope Keenan Evans is not seriously injured, but after Evans’ injury, the game completely changed, Zalgiris reacted and started playing much more aggressive basketball. It’s time for us to look in the mirror, we represent a very big club like Fenerbahçe and 30 million fans. The way we lost the game today is embarrassing.”

Evans’ injury in Zalgiris did not affect our game plan because Lukas Lekavicius is also a very important player. As everyone can see, we lost the game by 20 points today, and we were behind by double digits for most of the game. Although we gave our opponent a 15 to 13 advantage in assists, Zalgiris received individual contributions from each of his players. They also made a difference in second chance numbers. Although we shared the ball more than Zalgiris, they scored 86 points, while we only stayed at 66. As a result, there was no change in our match plan, but Evans’ injury gave our opponent an extra motivation.

‘PLAYERS FORGOT TO PLAY BASKETBALL’

We have been far from our energy level at the beginning of the season for the last 1 month, yet we must continue to work hard and believe. Such losing streaks can happen in basketball, we need to regain the energy level at the beginning of the season. These players did not forget to play basketball at once, we will prevent the bad course.”