Itoudis: “I congratulate Panathinaikos from the bottom of my heart – It’s very difficult to win the Euroleague like this”

THE Dimitris Itoudis gave a long interview to bhbasket.bawhere he addressed many issues regarding the Euroleague but also his own course on the shelves.

Among other things, he did not fail to congratulate him Panathinaikos on how he won Europe’s top competition, while being asked about his rumored deal with Barcelonastressing that his agent is talking to various teams and that there is still nothing definitive.

What he said in detail:

For the Panathinaikos Euroleague: “After 13 years, Panathinaikos appeared again in the Final four and won. It was very difficult to build a team from scratch and reach the final and win this title. Two different games were played in the semi-final against Fenerbahce and the final against Real. In the semi-final against Fenerbahce he was dominant and led by a large margin at the start. In the final, he came back from -14 down and won the game in the second half. It is important with such a Real who dominated the whole Euroleague to be with them and they were in the game, they were -6 at half time.

When the game was going badly, both defensively and offensively, Slukas, Nan and Lessor, who have been playing amazingly since the beginning of the season, shone for Panathinaikos along with everyone else. Factors were Kalaitzakis, Papapetrou, who played brilliantly against Maccabi in the playoffs. Not to forget Grant who is key in defense and attack. He made two 3-pointers early in the game when Real regularly wanted to go under the pick-and-roll to risk his shot, but he made two 3-pointers. Real scored all three points against Olympiakos when their players were free. In the final, he missed many open three-pointers and Panathinaikos had players who made big shots. So I congratulate them from the bottom of my heart.”

For his future: “I’m free and I said, my agent is working in that direction to talk to some teams that have shown interest. At the moment I can’t tell you anything. There is no official one.”