Dusan Sakota: “After such a year that Dragan made in AEK, to stop because the … identity?”

A delightful valuation of the route of… Sack In Greek basketball the Dusan.

In an interview with GBL’s Podcast ‘Man to man’veteran Serbian referred to both his own courseas well as his father.

So talked about his memories of AEK and Panathinaicfor the general philosophy of the family and wondered in a characteristic way Why … don’t continue this year too Dragan his presence on the benches.

In detail what he said

For years in Yugoslavia and when he came to Greece: “We didn’t know we were going to stay. It was a solution. In the early years we were going. We had a family in Yugoslavia.

For the course of the Sakota family, when they were forced to leave their homeland: “It was a great luck, in our misfortune. We entered a basketball period in Greece in the 1990s, it was the best. It was a big step for a man in his 40s, the gap between the Yugoslav and Greek basketball was great. “Married” to an excellent generation of Greek players. ”

On whether there is a star over the Sakota family: “It depends on what day you ask … where I can say ‘yes’, we are in the face of such challenges that you really say you have no star. We had a lot of trials as a family. In life you try the one you can cope with. Married to a coach.

For life with a dad who is also a coach: “It was difficult. I was never in the same section as my brother, Milos. When he was in teenage, I was in childhood. After school, one went for training and returning. Then the other was going, then the coach was going to play. You are financially dependent on it.

Whether the pressure is removed from a professional the joy of the sport: “Yes! I’ll take Jokic’s example. I love him. I don’t know him personally, but I love him as a player. He’s the best in the world because he has found a magical way to filter his personal life from basketball. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t even care about half a hundred.

They say he goes to Novisad and drinks beer, but they don’t say about the training he does. I know some people who help him and do crazy workouts. It gets a little joy, because if you don’t filter it, it loses the real reason you’ve started playing basketball. Every player has an inner battle and manages it as he knows. ”

As to whether his relationship with his father has kept him back in his career: “Without blame, if he had dealt with another sport, my career would be easier. You always be called – beyond the basketball standards that have a career – you were in a place you had to prove that you deserve to be there. Olympic Games where Obradovic had taken over the Sakota Assistant Coach.

For the future of Dragan Sakota and how long will he train: “I was a big part of this plan (ed: at some point to retire). I was worried, he was 72 years old. Then I realized how wrong I was.

In 2014 we had told us a conversation at AEK. We were playing with Kifissia. And there he was playing Michalis Kakiouzis, towards the end of his career. He had told us, to us the youngest that you have to … drive Michael from the stadium. As he stands and can, why stop. So when Dragan comes and does this season with AEK, why stop? Because the identity writes it? ”.

For the work of the coach: “When a player scores 20 points, but his team loses, you are sad. If you are a real professional. But you are sleeping a little quieter, because you know you have done your job well. When the coach loses, he loses himself. ”

As to whether he has left something incomplete after a 18 -year career: “As time goes on, no. When I stopped, it wasn’t a decision I made and I said ‘I stop.’ Or at least a reception.

About what AEK means to him: “It’s a separate chapter. It was my beginning and my end. I may have started in Panathinaikos, but Dragan is” to blame “that I didn’t do it with AEK! I was the top scorer in teenage. He’s a match in 2003, with Olympiacos in Korydallos. The reason.

Because he finally left AEK: “I had talked to Mr. Angelopoulos to help in some situations. The circle with AEK, with the kids who were – something that proved to be the roster created when I was gone – had closed. I wanted to see the kids who were back, something that didn’t happen. They were influenced by the Final 8, they bet there.

On whether he wanted to close his career at AEK: “I deserved a last year in AEK, but I didn’t want to be out of 12, to be a flower pot.”

For Panathinaikos: “A huge school. It was an honor and luck to be there. You can’t take the images I saw if you are not a teammate with Diamantides, Yasikevicius, Spanoulis, to Tsklous Pekovic, Tsartsaris, Albert.

For the best story starring Zelimir Obradovic: “Whatever I am holding … there is a press conference after the match with Prokol. We won, but we presented a bad person. It was before the Top-16. After his outburst, he entered the locker room and gave us four days off. In the team, in the world, we didn’t sit up in the world for 7-8 hours.

For his 2014 health adventure in Italy: “It helped me mature, but it was very difficult for my family. I would advise someone who may have been in the same position, never look at the distant future. Step. I know it is cliché, try to get out stronger than that. I react more to some situations.