Clay: “Olympiacos is my great love – a huge challenge for Lithuania to play with Greece”

THE Lino Located in Riga, Latvia as a member of her national team Lithuaniamaking statements in view of his country’s upcoming quarter -final with National us.

The former Ace of Olympiacos, described the game with Greece as a very big challenge for Lithuania, knocked on Spanoulis’ praise, and again expressed his love for our country and for the “reds”.

In detail what he said:

“Of course I love Olympiacos, it’s my great love. Greece means Olympiacos for me, I had a great time for a year and I have beautiful memories. I love country, I love fans, I love the team, it was a special period of my life ».

For Greece-Lithuania: “Greece has a very good team, with one of the best, if not the best, player in the world. It is a huge challenge for Lithuania and we will try to do the best we can, playing firmly and we will see how it will go ».

For Lithuania’s goal in Eurobasket: “We just work hard and hope that the gods of basketball will reward us. It is a difficult tournament but we feel good and we are ready to fight ».

For Spanoulis: “He was a great player and he is already a very good coach. He faced Yasikevicius in the Euroleague final and made a very good team. He is still young. It took a while to Sarah to conquer Euroleague, it is very difficult, but his future will be brilliant. “.

Whether he sees Yasikevicius become a day coach of National Lithuania: “One day for sure. So I think. Now we have an excellent head coach and with the passage of weather, I think it will. He now enjoys his time with his family ».

For his new role: “I enjoy being with my national team, it’s always my honor and I spend the best basketball days of my life. I feel beautiful to be here ».

On how to deal with John: “I don’t know, we’ll see it tomorrow. We hope to have a bad game. We will do what we can to limit it, but that’s why it is MVP, it is not easily stopped ».