Spanoulis: “John will normally be with us-from Saturday in training with the team”

Confident of his involvement Giannis Antetokounbos to Eurobasket said the Vassilis Spanoulis after the Friendly victory over Montenegro.

“Giannis Antetokounbos will be normal. Saturday starts regular workouts, so it was our plan. He already made a workout with contact. Toliopoulos and Zugris are better, I will have more solutions, it will be the last three to see how we go to Eurobasket“, He stressed.

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As for the friendly match of Thessaloniki, he said: ‘I would like to thank the people who came one day before August 15 to support us, to see the national team of our country. I was very pleased to see so many children and so many families. Many thanks to the world of Thessaloniki who were with us. What I want as a coach is to have good choices. We did it, but we were quite unfortunate. That is nothing for me, we are still in preparation, the legs are heavy, we train, travel and play. I have great confidence in children. I liked that we showed our spiritual power, although it wasn’t a good day aggressively with many inappropriate shots, we stayed focused, fought it and found a way to win. We will be back in games that will not be our day and we have to find a way to win again. For the first time we had the same rebound number as the opponent, because in the Cyprus tournament we were negative about this element. I like that we drove our opponents to many mistakes, I like that although we lost 20 three-pointers of 13-15 they were great shots. However, we had 20 assists and 11 steals. In general I am happy”

On the failure of his team he commented: ‘A good attack is not only to get the basket, it’s to find yourself shooting yourself. And we did this with very good distances. What we missed was to paint our guards, we did it after the first five minutes of the third period. I have confidence in my players, we have players with a great personality that will be properly, when they need”

Finally, for the various shapes he tried, he said: ‘My job as a coach is to try and change things. Sometimes it comes out and someone will say ‘good move’, if it doesn’t come out they will ‘look at what it did’. I like to try things out, mix them when nothing comes out. I am happy with all the kids, I like to fight, I don’t like to sometimes give baskets or I want to play better at one with one. I want to run better and go to more possessions, especially after good defenses“