Its own analysis of yesterday’s heavy defeat by Turkey and its exclusion Our national team by his final Eurobasket 2025did the Vassilis Spanoulis.
Speaking to representatives of the press one 24 hours before the great match against Finland for the bronze medal, The federal technician of our country said, among other things, that this is how basketball was and that we cannot say that Turkey “locked” John if the match had started differently. Everyone will make a bad match, happened to do it in the semifinals, as well as Turkey was very in danger of 16 from Sweden.
Then the Greek coach made it clear that There should be no ‘misery’ and be proud to claim a medal, since the latter 38 years our national team has won just 5.
Finally, he referred to the Finland profile and the virtues of the Tuobi team, making it clear that we all have to do everything together for the medal so that in the future young children could deal with basketball.
In detail what he said:
“Yesterday we had a bad game, we happened to do it in the tournament in the semifinals. We could have done it in ” 16 ” or ” 8 ‘, fortunately we didn’t, and we did it now. We were not spiritually ready. It is reasonable, they are people and the players, they are a great tournament, everyone can have a bad game. We also saw Turkey that could not be here, lost to Sweden that won in Pontus. We saw Germany that he could not be in the final, lost to Slovenia if Da Silva was not putting the three -pointer behind the center and changing psychology.
So don’t look for what happened and what didn’t happen. They are games, someone will be in a good day, another in ugly, someone will put six three -pointers where one put one. So is basketball, there is none of the other ” locked ”, these are journalists for you. It’s who is on a better day and who is not. At the beginning of the match we lost 4 leaps, three of John who are always nails. Then what would we say? That John’s ” locked ” Turkey if he had scored 10 points early and had 3 assists? You have to see the glass half full. All we had to do was give up the game a bit spiritually. This is what bothers me the most me and the team.
But what happened-we are in the medal zone after 16 years. Don’t be miserable, to be positive and proud and we have a very big challenge ahead of us. The biggest game for me for 16 years. To bring this medal to our homeland and stay in our history. For the last 38 years we have received 5 medals and now we are playing for a medal and talking about ” destruction ” etc., it doesn’t touch me at all. I am proud of my players, I will always be here to protect them because I believe them. The coach is responsible for every defeat, I take responsibility for yesterday, after all, I never had a question with responsibilities.
We have studied the match with the Finns and we must be ready for tomorrow’s battle. It is a team that runs the stadium, has the best offensive rebound, it puts a 14 three -pointing average. It’s a team that plays a style different from the rest, with lots of cuts and off balls, with a shooting shots and with pens down the ball. We have to have tremendous concentration and energy as we had throughout the tournament except yesterday’s race.
Many have said it was a success to go to 16. Then they said that it is over-8. And now we are at 4, they have stopped jobs, people have come from Greece for the national team, millions of Greeks have seen games, children tomorrow-the-day days may ask their parents. This is the great success. It is not surprising to me what we did. I knew what team I have. All teams have bad games, Serbia made a bad match and left 16 and France from 8. Turkey and Germany could be home.
We have a huge opportunity for a medal. It is very big and will leave a huge legacy and legacy and is a huge opportunity for a medal. The children need to understand the criticality of the race. A medal is at stake that we may not see again. We deserve this medal, as Finland may be worth it. It is a match that has peculiarities. It is a big final for us. We have the opportunity for a medal after 16 years. We see how basketball changes, where it goes, how many talents are coming out … We must not leave this opportunity.
The Greeks are grumpy, but we are united now. Most understand what effort we have made and where we are without being a favorite. They said that our ceiling would be 8 and we have surpassed it … We must as a team, as a country, all together to give everything for the medal ».
@SPORFM946 Spanoulis: “Don’t be a miserable – huge opportunity for a medal that will leave inheritance” #Eurobasket2025 #greece #eurobasket #sporfm? original sound – SPORFM946
Source: Sport Fm
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