Itoudis: Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow we will know more about Giannis – Agravanis put himself out of the national team

We were bad at opening pass pressure in the misses, we didn’t use the free throws when we had them and when we did we got back into the match. We like to be a team that fights games, but we don’t like to be so behind in the score. Papapetrou has heavy legs, Papanikolaou is coming from an injury… We saw a high line up. We try to find a balance from the inside out. We thank the people who were here and support the team, because it is a national effort.

If we are clear in our minds about what our capabilities are, then we are on the right track. I believe we are on the right track. We are trying to make our identity and the applause comes from the effort. We lost a lot of rebounds because of the turnover defense. Offensively we will have to create in different ways. The development of our attack was completely different compared to Serbia. Some shots didn’t go in, but I’m happy with the ball movement. We had a better flow in that part, but obviously when you miss some shots, your mentality drops and you have to find other ways. I think we can shoot better than we have so far. The shooting is not the players’ problem, it’s mine. We try to cover our weaknesses in a short period of time.

In the National team we cannot make players or different skill conditions. This is what happens in clubs. We cannot turn Mitoglou or Bohoridis into an iso player in 40-50 days. We have to exploit the potential of our players. We have certain players and we try to build something from that that will give us results. We have the ability to be tougher, we are tough at times, but we have to be tough all the time.

We still have three training sessions here, two more training sessions and two friendlies in Abu Dhabi and that’s where we’ll end up in the top 12. The World Cup has the peculiarity that all the games are finals, so we will approach the games.

Nobody wants to lose, when you play, you play to win. We have some athletes who are not even at 40-50% of their potential. I don’t know if they will reach 70-80%, we hope so. We will work on weaknesses, through the trainings and the video.

The athletes are here because they want to defend the colors of the National team. Not with the gun to his temple. It was in the training plan that Agravanis and Kalaitzakis would be left out of the 14th today. We await the final decisions with training and friendlies.

Agravanis put himself out of the national team. Someone places himself in and someone outside the National team. Details let me not tell. I have contacted 22 athletes, some say I am here, some say no.