THE Kostas Sloukas talked to Demi Nikolaidis In the first episode of “Demis Dialogues” and among other things, he referred to the course of his career. The 35 -year -old guard said he saw that Olympic He no longer wanted him and chose to go to the Panathinaic to show how wrong they made. At the same time, he described as a failure last period with the “clover”, and made it clear that he wanted to retire soon and while he is still at the top level. In detail, Sloukas talked about:
-The first departure from Olympiacos: “When I left Olympiacos he went to Fener, that is, I chose a coach, who believed me the most. That is, my time at Olympiacos was limited when I left to go to Fener. He was Basil at his best then, he was the best player in Europe and I knew I couldn’t … so what would the coach do? Will Santa Claus put me? It doesn’t. I knew it. So what was my challenge? To leave Olympiacos, to go to a team with a good environment, with a coach who believes me and to show things. Which really happened. After five years I think he made a very good upward trend. ”
-The agreement with Fenerbahce: “When she made an appointment with Zeljko Obradovic there was a nice story, I have never told her. We meet to talk, because he tells me ‘I’m coming to Athens to meet you, to tell you two conversations’. I am a free player, I had no contract at Olympiacos, I am free to hear whoever I want. I also met with the coach of Olympiacos first, who analyzed his plan, which was not much what I wanted to hear, even though I appreciate Yiannis Spheropoulos, he is an excellent coach. And he could tell me well, he told me the truth. For this I appreciate him more. I’m meeting with Zeljko Obradovic and tells me on “one” you will be with Bobby Dixon then, “Two” is Bogdanovic, “Three,” Four “, I told me the whole team. I feel good. In Fener, “he tells me” we haven’t talked about any money or anything “. I tell him” there we will go “and so it was. Imagine I agreed without knowing the money proposal. As a move it was very wrong, I agreed without knowing a financial proposal.
-Return to Olympiacos: “After five years, Fener’s chapter closes and I find a new challenge to Olympiacos. Panathinaikos has always been discreet. The discretion of the managers not to me, to my manager, that he looked at him in Panathinaikos. Open to what he wants, we have been talking for 15 years now. Many years. I didn’t even hear Panathinaikos. It is a very big team but I respected Olympiacos. And I see in front of me a very big challenge to Olympiacos in A2. It has no good team, they finished 13th, 12th in Euroleague. I see a very big challenge and I say I will go there to help Olympiacos because I remember not even good names to Olympiacos then. That is, when I went, the rest of the names followed. He was Vasilis at his end, he was George at his finish and imagine I have enough money to go to Olympiacos. I had a much better proposal than Real Madrid but my challenge was Olympiacos. My wife finds me, she tells me you could go to Real Madrid then. Real is terrible. But the challenge for me was to go a Final-Four with Olympiacos, so I chose Olympiacos. That’s why I went to Olympiacos. ”
-The reason he left Olympiacos: “After three years Olympiacos doesn’t want me and leaves me free in a bad way. This has actually been done, I don’t want to mention. So I find a great opportunity to go across and show them that they have been wrong. And I think the story and fate brought things so that … I didn’t even write them, I wouldn’t write them so well. It was a huge challenge, I had a hard time because I had the injuries, the team went through it, but in the end what was happening … Now to score 25 points in the Euroleague final and put 30 in the final with Olympiacos. I would write them, I don’t think I could write them so well. The fate was with me very well. ”
-The season completed: “For me this year’s Panathinaikos is a great failure. If we got the championship, success would be just as great. The championship judged the year as very failed. In basketball it is not like in football. In basketball I can now be what teams will be in the Euroleague eighty of the year. They are specific groups that go to the “8” or “10” from 20 let’s say. So you’re there. When you go there, so you want a little luck to get it. So that you go to the Final-Four is a success but you know you will be in the eight teams. Can I now be that Olympiacos will definitely be in the octave, will not be? Will be. Real will be, Barcelona will be, Panathinaikos will reasonably. They are six groups that will surely be. So going to the Final-Four is an asterisk success. Getting it is a great success. What judges your year and what closes it is the last game, that is, the championship. So the year was a failure. Think about it. Last year we got the Euroleague, if we lost the championship the year would obviously be successful but it would be as an asterisk, that is, you lost the championship friend, you have lost the cup. Did you understand how you think about basketball? Basketball is like that. We had two Euroleague with Olympiacos, we were turning, there were so many people on the street and there was a world and he was telling us “in a week played with Panathinaikos. The Euroleague is good. But Panathinaikos. The championship.” And we used to say “we got European” and when you will win again. This is the mentality in basketball. ”
-Yul’s basket in the final of Olympiacos with Real Madrid: “I would say never to say it, not to discuss it, I have only discussed it with me. Fortune plays a role in basketball but you create the conditions where luck can favor either you or the opponent. Regularly. I will say an example because I happened to see some statements lately from the Olympiacos coach that he sometimes sleeps and in his sleep he sees the Yul’s basket that judged the Euroleague. Indeed, it was a lucky basket. Personalities always play a role. But to know that you create the conditions too. Zeljko Obradovic has always said that in the last two minutes you would never eat a three -pointer because he is stealing a possession. That is, where you eat a two -point one, if you eat a three -point one even closer to you. In the EuroLeague final he wants 45 “and Real has the ball. Olympiacos leads with four points. Rodriguez lowers the ball and if I remember correctly he is the Canan who goes under the scroll and gives him the opportunity to shoot a three-point. We eat a triple and the difference is in one point. Most people say “you foul or don’t you?” For me the game was lost before, when you ate the three -point one instead of eating a two -point. The coach could very well be instructed or not make the mistake or we can eat a two -point. Do not risk a quality player to shoot a three -pointer, better let him enter. Yul takes the ball and scores. If we had eaten a simple lay-up and not a three-pointer the difference would be in the two points. So you are foul right away. If you put the two shots you have certainly not lost and you have the last attack on your hands with the worst chance of going to an extension. So, obviously the basket is very lucky, a very difficult basket in the phall that is a very good defender. But I think you are creating the circumstances before 20 “that no one discusses, no one has ever discussed it where you built your fate. Fortune plays a very important role. You build a momentum and you make your chances. The Euro you got. You have seen a clip on Instagram where Yurkas Seitaridis had come in on Tieri’s underpass. I put a 1-0 counterattack. You build all you. ”
Source: Sport Fm
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