Speaking at the Euroleague coaches conference that took place in Glyfada, o Zelimir Obradovic he mentioned, among other things, the collaboration he had with Dimitris Itoudis to Panathinaikos.
The Serbian coach of Partizan emphasized, among other things, how he completely trusted the Greek then his assistantgiving him complete freedom in training and tactics.
Zelimir Obradovic’s statements in detail:
“I started many years ago, first I was a player and then I started attending some coaching seminars. They asked me what I was doing there and I said that maybe one day I will become a coach, but it would be useful for me to become a better player. All this today is something that I think can help and be useful for your work.
I want to congratulate Dimitris (s.s. Itoudis) for all that he is the president of the EuroLeague coaches’ federation, as well as Yannis Sfairopoulos who is the vice president, as well as Goran Sasic who is the manager, and also all those who helped to make all these nice things happen.
I think it is a very good federation, it is useful for everyone and I hope it will be at the same level in the future. As Yannis also said, Dimitris and I worked for 13 years to achieve something different that was our daily work. Dimitris was the assistant coach, whom I trusted, I gave him freedom. When he wanted to stop training he did, it was the same with me.
If at work I dealt with the attacking team, he took care of the team’s defensive function. We put some rules in the team, rules that were simple as they gave the players a chance to play and enjoy the game.”
If I put an attack and we started working on this system, with many options that I will explain to you later. The rule was to make five attacks and Dimitris to prepare the defenders. If my team scored in all three attacks they would continue to play attack.
But if there were three good defenses then the teams would change. The players all prefer to play on offense, so we motivate them to play good defense so they can play on offense.”
Source: Sport Fm
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