Tanoulis: “My parents wake up every day 6 in the morning, they are biologists – how could I shop for it?”

THE George Tanoulis He fought this year’s season at Marousi As a borrower by Olympiacos, and for the first time in his career he had a firm role in a team’s rotisson, playing 13 minutes per game with 5.1 points and 3.3 rebounds On average in Stoiximan GBL.

The 22 -year -old, who got too much useful experiences Since this year’s season, hosted at Man to Man Powered by Stoiximan In a discussion with great interest in the so far course and what he gave him his presence at Marousi.

In detail what he said:

For the time he cried when his brother, Konstantinos Tanoulis, sent the youth of Olympiacos to the UEFA Youth League quarter -finals: “It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life. When my brother is doing well, I am much more happy than when I go well in a match. Because when you fight yourself, you have gone through training, you know where you are, you feel ready and confident. But when you watch each other, without being able to do anything, the emotions are much more intense. It still makes fun of me for my reaction that day, because I’m not used to break out like that. But I enjoyed it so much! The family is above all for me. My brother is above all. If there is something that characterizes me, it is the love and the strong bond I have with my family. “

About how the basketball started: “I started basketball … by chance, to tell you the truth! We had been with my father outside the Mars stadium, then. I heard balls hit the parquet and say, “Dad, what is it?” He says to me, “Let’s see.” At that time there were young children training. The coach saw me – I was big enough for my age – and said, “Get in!” And I never came out again. I entered basketball … from a spark. And in the end it became a way of life. I play for three and a half years old and I’m 23. That is, I don’t remember myself a single day without training. It’s part of my daily life, it’s my life. “

For his standards: “Little, when I was at Mars academies, I always liked Ryan Stak! So much that I had left long hair to look like him! Fortunately, there are no more photos since then … fortunately (laughs)! Growing up, however, because I am also from Evosmos, Nikos Hatzivretas was a role model for all children in the area. We all watched him with admiration. And of course, Savvas Eliades, who is also from western Thessaloniki, was also a player who inspired us. These were our heroes. “

For his journey to basketball: “Since I first got into a basketball court, I never doubted that I wanted to do. From a young age, there was nothing else inside me – I always felt that I was made to do. The important thing, though, is that I never had the “must”. And I owe it to my family. My parents only wanted one thing: to be happy. Once there was no pressure, I just enjoyed the game. I enjoy what I did and continue to like it. The fact that I have two parents who always supported me and encouraged me to enjoy basketball, helped me get rid of every pressure. So, for me, all that counts is to play. That’s what I want. That’s what I love. “

For what is left for George to date: “I think I’m up and down. When the love of what you do does not change, the way you see it does not change. I feel exactly the same every time I touch the ball – the same excitement as I was waiting for how and how to come on Saturday to go to workout. Sure, as you grow older and goals, pressure, professionalism … you start and enter a ‘mold’. But because I like this life, I even enjoy that. It’s part of the game – and I love the game. “

For what he can fool him: “Maybe the only thing that can really throw me – beyond normal ups and downs, such as a poor performance in a game – is to be in an environment where I don’t feel we are a team. But that has happened to me a few times for very short spaces. I am very lucky because I have always had excellent teammates next to me, people I love and who have given me a lot. If something spoils me on a human level, this is the only thing that can really “fade” me. “

For what he gained from his experience in Marousi: “It’s the first time in my career that I have a real role in a team. Maybe I myself had in my mind that he “must save and play”, that whatever happens, I have to be in the game. But this year, I understood something deeper: that when you are in the game, the most important thing is to do the team well. The whole is above all. I haven’t always been fully reconciled with it – it was an internal process. But when you start to feel that the team’s victory is taking you one step further, then you accept it. You may not play too much a weekend, and the next one is your day. This balance has helped me a lot. I have lived through many and strong experiences, I have worked with professional and remarkable people, but I still feel … small in terms of experience. As if I started now. The difference is that now, whatever I do, I do it by pressing firmly on my feet. “

As to whether he “rode the reed”: “No, I have never” riding the reed “. And I couldn’t, because my environment wouldn’t let me get away. I am a child who still has the same friends who had from elementary school – my company is the same, except for the kids I met later through basketball. My parents are people who get up every day at 6am to go to work. They are biologists. How could I “shop” because I just play basketball? It would be unhappy. When you see your own fight everyday, you feel responsible, not superiority. I would be ashamed if my air minds were taken. So no – that has never happened, and it’s not going to happen. “

For Prometheus Vikos Cola: “It was a very beautiful three years. I understand it every time I get back to Patras – it’s like going back to something familiar, something of mine. I really enjoy it. Prometheus is a program that, in my opinion, is the best for a young child. For me it was the best choice I could make then. They hugged me from day one and gave me everything. We sometimes discuss it with Lefteris Mantzoukas, who we were together in the team, and we say, “What would we have done if we had all these kids together for years?” Me, Lefteris, Karagiannidis, Plotas, Bazinas … would be very beautiful. Prometheus gave me the opportunity to learn myself, to experience experiences. I played with top -level teammates, found space to work, make my body – because then I was back enough on this piece. I took my first steps in the professional space, I met people who today are friends of life. It was a three -year period … like a fairy tale. “

For Olympiacos: “It was really very beautiful. I was in America, I had gone to work on my game, and then it was when I had talked to Coach Bozika. Everything seemed to me like a lie. I remember seeing Olympiacos in the final and the championship he had won the previous year, and I was thinking, “I want to go there for a while, to live it.” I remember telling my father how much I wanted to live this. And suddenly, after six months, I was there! It was like living a dream. The phone was ringing and the coach welcomed me. Then, I entered the locker room and saw Kostas Papanikolaou. The climate was incredible and how tied everyone is with each other. I really felt so familiar from the first moment and I enjoyed it every minute. “

For Marousi: “When the year started, no one certainly expected that we would fight in the playoffs. We were wronged by ourselves, I think we got into it during the year. We went through a lot, we made a lot of changes, we were trying to find homogeneity, but Marousi is a great team and we fought for the minimum goal, the stay. I believe that Europe did us good because we were playing constantly and we had a rhythm. The problem was that we failed to find the racing homogeneity we needed. “

About whether he is dreaming: “I make dreams, because only if you dream you have a motivation, but I don’t dream. I make dreams, but I don’t live in the future, I live in today. I set goals and try to achieve them. My farthest dream or goal is, when my career is over at some point – I don’t know how many years this will happen – to be able to sleep quietly and say I gave everything. “

As to whether he accepts advice: “It is a great asset for a person to be able to hear first of all. So, I was always looking for someone who could give me advice, someone who has gone through similar situations and help me. I was very lucky in my life that, at the age of 18, I had a teammate Harry Giannopoulos. He is a man who changed my life, both in basketball and out of it. Because we are close to characters, Harris is always my man. “

For his biggest mistake: “The biggest mistake I made, but I didn’t have the right guidance on it, was that until I went to Prometheus, I had the thought that basketball was reaching. I was working a lot in basketball, but I didn’t work at all. I might not even go to the gym! I only did basketball, they were constantly coming injuries, my legs were turning, I was unstable, I had such problems. And that took me my career a few years back. I think if I had started from an early age with the right guidance of working on my body, I would be some steps ahead. “

For National: “Anyone who starts basketball, dreams of playing in National Greece for a while! It’s the biggest honor you can feel, the strongest feeling. What I feel, I have been a member of the National Men, is that when you are in the Men’s National, all of Greece supports you. It’s the most beautiful thing. The big goal for me is to go to a big tournament with the Men’s National. I work for that and I hope to do it. “