Check out what the coaches and players are saying ahead of Game 4 of the 2025 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs
Playoffs pregame quotes, Game 4: 'We have the formula to beat Olympiacos'
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Thursday, May 1
Real Madrid vs. Olympiacos Piraeus (21:00 CEST)
Chus Mateo, Real Madrid head coach
"Playing as a team always helps to better understand how to beat an opponent with as many weapons and as good players as Olympiacos. Our intention is to play a good game and that means improving, improving a lot more at all levels, defensively and offensively. We have to think that everything will be more complicated than on Tuesday and that we will have to show a level close to perfection to be able to get another victory."
Dzanan Musa, Real Madrid forward
"It's not easy to win two games in a row against Olympiacos, but we have the formula to play against them and be able to win. We are talking about a great team with a magnificent coach, but we also have our weapons. The way to get another victory is to be together, fight together and be ready to play another final. We want to keep fighting."
Georgios Bartzokas, Olympiacos Piraeus head coach
"There are a few things we're thinking of changing. We need to be more aggressive on defense from the very first second, because afterward we had a good second quarter. It was a game with a lot of physical contact, a lot of basketball 'battles'. Real Madrid played in the second half in a way that pushed us out of our comfort zones. And we didn’t execute well offensively. We hope to have [Evan] Fournier with us as well. It was a game that was decided in the details. It's expected that Real would play for their lives. But the shooting percentages are usually similar in this type of game – what matters most is possessions. That means stealing the ball, getting more rebounds, avoiding turnovers, and executing the game plan with focus and self-control."
Nikola Milutinov, Olympiacos Piraeus center
"We have to play much better than we did in Game 3. We weren’t strong enough. They were much tougher than us; they played with a lot more physicality. We made mistakes, gave the ball away too many times, and they scored easy points from that. If you want to beat Real in Madrid, you have to play with more focus and be more physical, because they’re a very good team."
Friday, May 2
Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs. Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens (19:30 CEST)
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FC Barcelona vs. AS Monaco (20:45 CEST)
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