“We screwed up. It’s all ruined by us not making it to the Final Four.”

ANDBarça coach Roger Grimau assured this Wednesday that after the defeat to Olympiacos (59-63) and elimination from the Euroleague in the fifth game of the quarter-finals, the match was “very intense” and was decided in the last quarter. The Greek team scored threes.

“Today is a tough day, we screwed up. It was a very difficult game that was decided in the last quarter by the triple goals they scored on us. We didn’t know how to come back,” analyzed the Catalan coach, emphasizing that the Barça team “defended very well almost throughout the entire game.”

However, Grimau admitted that Barça failed to succeed in the three (4 of 26): “We made a large number of three-point shots, that was what we were looking for with such a closed defense and what we were looking for with such a closed defense: “We weren’t successful and we didn’t know how to find better situations.”

The coach, who thanked Palau Blaugrana for their support, assured that the calendar is “certainly not conducive” to the performance of Barça, who played two Endesa League games in the match, unlike Olympiacos, but stressed that the relegation was not due to Olympiacos ” physical condition or age of the players.

“With today’s result, the assessments of the season don’t make much sense. Everything is truncated by the lack of qualifying for the Final Four,” Girmau said, declaring that the team must now focus on the Endesa League.

“We have to continue working with the ACB, finish the two regular league games and give it our all in the title playoffs. We’re screwed at the moment, but we have no choice but to get up and try to find the best version of ourselves in the tournament.” The end of the season,” he concluded.