In the Panathinaikos Aktor and Olympiacos exclusions in the semifinals of the Euroleague Final Four from Fenerbahce and Monaco, in the work of Vasilis Spanoulis, who has conveyed the winner’s spirit to the players, but also in the new chapter of his career as a technician.
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In detail what he told Manolis Mousourakis for:
-I has realized that he is no longer a player: “I have realized it, but there is a lot of information I accept and phone calls. The job does not let you think about change a lot. It has a lot of work, I have focused on it now. I do not think much about the change, but in distributing the information to my head properly, so that there is a good organization to slowly start making the team. It would essentially be the transition period if I was a player now, because in recent years I have been spending time for physiotherapists and doctors now. As I have said before, they better tell me why I stopped, but why I continued”
-The exclusion of Panathinaikos and Olympiacos: “They passed fairly Fenerbahce and Monaco, based on the image they had in the semifinals. She went a long way to Physical Game, Fenerbahce went with changes to defense to cut the creation of Panathinaikos, with the size she has in the guard and tall. When Nan’s first defense zone passed, the 2nd line was there.
Monaco pressed the Olympics, stopped the flow of the Olympic attack. He forced Olympiacos to take the ball away from the basket and so he spoiled his game. The players of Olympiacos seemed very pressured. Congratulations to both teams who went to the Final Four are a huge success. Like congratulations to PAOK who went to the FIBA ​​Europe Cup final and AEK who went to the BCL Final Four. A player did not stand out, they had enough in good day one team and the other”
-The pressure on Olympiacos: “If it was the first Final Four of Olympiacos after a few years and lost as it lost, we wouldn’t comment so much, but because there were a Final Four that has not won the trophy, plus it made it reasonable to discuss it a little more. There was pressure, it seemed. In a Final Four there is pressure, even for the underdog. Although for me all groups have the same chances in a Final Four. Olympiacos had a little more pressure, most players carried it because they were in the previous team. They carried that they had first come out on the regular season. Maybe for some it was the last chance”
-This if he likes the Final Four’s format: “No one can have a clear view. Olympiacos would have the advantage, based on the image throughout the season and the roster. It has been in the position and Olympiacos is underdog and has taken it. I like to be surprised. Enables all groups going to the Final”
-Preparation in view of the finals and if the small final confuses the situation: “It’s the most unobtrusive game you can play with the little final. I don’t think things get confused, the coaches will rotate. From yesterday they think of the finals and not the small final. Coaches think about how to help players restart and delete on what has been done. It’s a last sprint to conquer the title”
-The Euroleague final: “Lots of thumbs up in Fenerbahce of Yasikevicius. In Monaco, in addition to Nick Kalathis and George Papagiannis, is Elias Kantzouris and Tolis Karatzas the physiotherapist. I am glad that Vasilis Spanoulis is worth it, has the winner’s stuck and has passed it on to the players. I would like Monaco to win. The two teams have the same chances, we will see a nice final with Physical Game, the two teams have athletes, we will see a lot of tactics”
-If they killed the player in Spanoulis and Saras: “When you have such a great career that you are a leader, it is difficult to kill the player. They were both leaders. It is not so negative to have not killed the player. You can come closer to the players by setting a limit of course and understanding them more easily. When you kill the player you can forget how players think. Coaches who didn’t have such a great career have a small disadvantage. On the other hand they have an advantage in being more concentrated things in their heads”
-The Peristeri project: “Everything happened very quickly, but after the first meetings I realized how much they want to support me, as well as the venture we want to do. One of the reasons was that I have been tied to administration. It is important in your first steps to have support from the administration, especially now that I am directly a head coach. We want to make a competitive team, to make progress for players and coaches. To say when each workout ends that we have become the best version of ourselves“
Source: Sport Fm
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