Mikropoulos: “We wanted better foreigners but… they didn’t look at us – I hope next year we will play in Europe”

An interview on the Cosmote TV show, “Pick N Roll”, was granted by its president Panioni, Theodoros Mikropoulostalking about the return of the “historian” to the top division, revealing that he tried for the return of Hougaz, analyzing the effort to strengthen the roster ahead of this season, while also referring to the defeat by Milos and his relationship with Aris Lykogiannis.

In detail what he said:



For Hugaz: “We approached Nikos Hugaz. As long as he chose and I don’t see that it is too strange, because the championship has different conditions and others abroad, but I hope that in the coming years he will give us the look he needs and come back. We will always want him, because I have the philosophy that there should be Greek players that the fans can identify with. Every year basically all the foreigners leave and others come. Nikos could be the new face because he was also his father and he started from there. It’s something you can lean on.”.

About the roster: “We were willing to take better foreigners and financially but they didn’t look at us. Next year I hope we play in Europe we will have better ones, not that I am underestimating ours now, but we always want the best. And let the world be sure that this will happen. For the Greeks, however, the truth is that it has an appeal, even if the names we have in the team are 6 Greeks who are well-known players. They are not random. Gikas, Kaklamanakis, Saloustros, Tsalbouris, are all internationals and recently. Miledijevic has made a great effort this year and I believe he will stand in this category as well”.

For the defeat by Milos: “The defeat against Milos was very significant. I don’t want to go into too many details now, even though I may know in my heart that I am right, but that night I felt very bad. This remained for many reasons that I had formed in my mind and I saw that this really saddened me very much. And not just racing. It was a fair loss. I can’t say that we played better and we lost. It may have been decided in the details in the end but what matters is that the defeat itself hurt a lot.

The loss to Mykonos last year didn’t hurt. It was in the play offs but I knew anyway that at home we would be undefeated and that’s how it happened but this defeat didn’t matter. But she and Milos, not because it is a local union, we respect him and he respects us. It was the whole environment that had been created for me, it hit me very hard, but after two days it was overcome, it’s the truth”.

For Aris Lykogiannis: “Aris Lykogiannis was my idea to tell you the truth. I had other suggestions and called his manager even though I knew he was free. I tell him to meet, he accepted, we met, I told him two things, he didn’t hold back in terms of his explosive character completely, but in any case he put some order in the team. He is a man who is dedicated to basketball, he has a lot of experience in A1, of course, and the truth is that we are polishing him. We’re trying to limit him as much as we can.”.