Zisis in Slam Dunk: “The eternal ones will sell their tomari dearly, pre-Olympic with Giannis”

The 3rd episode of “Slam Dunk» with Nikos Zervas and Dimitra Ireiotis on his YouTube channel StoiximaView It is a fact. This week’s special guest is Nikos Zisis and the conversation is enjoyable. The General Manager of the National Basketball Team spoke about everything that is happening in Greek basketball. national team, windows, Vasilis Spanoulispre-Olympic and John Antetokounmpo they open the conversation.

THE Nikos Zisis comments on the data for the first window, with Euroleague and FIBA ​​agreement, for the team’s new coach, as well as Giannis Antetokounmpo. He continues with Olympic and Panathinaikos and their progress this year, while commenting on the progress of all Greek teams.

Among other things, Nikos Zisis said:

For the federal coach, Vassilis Spanoulis: “We talk non-stop with Vassilis Spanoulis, just at this moment we are lucky and blessed to be in the National team, which unites us with many things, memories from small children, so together with all the coach and all the people of the Federation we are very happy to have Vassilis as a coach. Not much needs to be said about what he has achieved. His personal titles, acclaim, character speak for themselves. We are lucky to have a man who knows very well what a National team means. Vassilis loves challenges, the national team is one of his great loves and I believe he will show in practice that he is ready to face the challenge. Many words are poverty and we will see everything in action.”

For the players and their availability, for the windows of the National Team: “For the first time we have an agreement between FIBA ​​and Euroleague for this window. Maybe there will be pressure on some players, from the teams. There was this pressure in our era as well and there was the question of playing or not playing in the National team. There was never any thought of not playing in the National team, as long as we were healthy. Players must be healthy. We have experts to not “juice” the players. On the other hand, it’s an opportunity, since the Euroleague stops, to put a little stone on top of what we want to build.”

For Giannis Antetokounmpo: “We want to believe that he will be with us. The coach has spoken with him. It is true for everyone that there is still nothing conclusive. The pre-Olympics is a dream. We believe that we will all be together, to face a great challenge”.

For Olympiakos and Panathinaikos: “Both Greek teams are in a very good place. At a good level. They are in a similar phase. Both our teams have injury problems in key positions. It’s hard, they have to manage it. They are entering a critical juncture. They have to grit their teeth, get those wins, this week. Olympiacos, in the summer, lost two very important players. Main exponents of attack and creation, in the last two years, he didn’t have the injury problems he has now. It’s hard to train the whole team together, they’re looking for their chemistry. You have to forget the team that played the last two years, it’s a new team. Both Olympiacos and Panathinaikos are very big teams, with a special weight, with a jersey. If Olympiacos is healthy, while in the forecasts they are further behind, if they manage to enter the playoffs, they can do damage later, if they underestimate them.

Panathinaikos is a new team, they changed everything, while they started difficult and logical, they succeeded through big victories, they gave it psychology. While they are a new team, they have managed to have very good chemistry, to be a tough team to beat. It is a tough team, which has won difficult games with a low score, if anyone thought that with Ataman, Panathinaikos would win, with only 90 points. Panathinaikos is an excellent team, it is important for Greek basketball that it has come back and the world supports this effort. Our teams with their problems, like all teams, can enter the final stage of the EuroLeague and ‘sell their club dearly’.