Panathinaikos 2016-17

[mitsos13]

Pao still does not have a final four roster.

Agreed.

Pao lost Raduljica

NOT agreed!

[saras]

Maybe you will venture American market after players start being cut there

and that will probably happen. right now there are rumours in greece for manuchar markoishvili for small forward position and from within the team they say we will go for a power forward from those cut from NBA.
there are 2 issues though. we already have maximum number of non europeans(feldeine,james,gist,singleton) and we can only have maximum number of 6 non greeks.we can have more for euroleague but we can only make 3-5 changes in greek league.its not like turkey or russia where you can choose every game which 6-7-8(i dont know the limit in these countries) foreigners you will have in the 12-man roster for each game.

the first problem might be solved with a passport for mike james(there are rumours about bulgary or another country in the balkans). the second cant be solved with more than 6 non greeks because the coach doesnt want to have 2 different rosters next season,because we already have many changes and the more we make,the harder it is for them to have a chemistry all together as a team. imo we need 1 PF,1 SF and 1 backup pg,so one should be greek. during the last days the backup pg is said that it could be bochoridis and the backcourt would be: calathes,james,bochoridis,pappas,feldeine but i think it would be better to wait for rochestie to drop his salary and grab him,while keeping jankovic and not get manuchar or another one there. and after that we could wait for NBA cuts and james passport to get a good athletic and good shooter at PF(perry jones is good choice.he could be something like quincy miller this season)

after claver's loss i would like to see tyler honeycutt to panathinaikos if his move at efes is not official yet. he is the closest thing we could find to maciulis during his days at the team and he can provide good cover at both SF and PF

[mitsos13]

Interested in K. C. Rivers.

[ronmercer80]

if the roster of Olympiakos is really definitive i believe that this year the Greek title will be green-coloured.

Final four is more difficult, i consider this roster too perimetral. But who knows, with 24 teams it would be impossible, with 16 it isn't, surprises are possible.

[mitsos13]

At the moment:



Management says they are going after one more PF and that's it. Some argue that we need one more PG.

[Oly_fan]

Update the name of this thread.

[Adon]

Update the name of this thread.

Panathinaikos BC Superfoods 2016-17
The "superfoods" part makes the name somewhat ridiculous. Although,at the time when the team has advanced to F4, we will be used to it.

[ronmercer80]

Panathinaikos has built a good roster this year, nevertheless Bourousis has to confirm his excellent Spanish performances. It should't be taken for granted, his last years in Greece weren't so brilliant. Anyway, a cautious optimism is justified.

[mitsos13]

Farewell to Dimitris Diamantidis

[jonga]

Bourousis in PAO

3 games, 15 minutes per game, 8.69 points 4 rebounds... and only 0.3 assists per game, and he is an amazing passer. I don't understand why he plays only 15 minutes. He is by far the best player in PAO, the best possible leader of the team, if PAO continues giving only 15 minutes to Bourousis I don's see PAO playing quarterfinals.

As Baskonia fan, I thought that PAO was better team than us because of Bourousis, but if Bou is the third big guy in the rotation I think that even Baskonia is better. With Bourousis Baskonia would be a F4 contender, he would play 25 minutes per game being the leader of the team. Knowing Pascual I think that Bourousis will regret leaving Baskonia, he will remember his season in Vitoria as the best in his career.

[Oly_fan]

Who is he going to pass to? Calathes? He can get doubled and still not have any good options outside.
I think their early record is quite flattering for PAO. They had one tough win against Zalgiris at home and Brose just stopped playing basketball after going up by 10, they were only doing isos after that.

[vivo]

Too early jonga, I guess 3 games is not enough of a sample when you consider new team, new players around him and a coach change.

[ByThor]

I think the main reason he's not playing 25+ mins is that they are trying to make sure he doesn't burn out. I haven't seen any games yet so maybe I'm off base but 33 is not young.

[childress67]

Because he is a black hole in pao's defense...he can't defend in pick and roll...pao is effective only when gist and singleton are in...

[KWSN-Men]

3 games, 15 minutes per game, 8.69 points 4 rebounds... and only 0.3 assists per game, and he is an amazing passer. I don't understand why he plays only 15 minutes. He is by far the best player in PAO, the best possible leader of the team, if PAO continues giving only 15 minutes to Bourousis I don's see PAO playing quarterfinals.

As Baskonia fan, I thought that PAO was better team than us because of Bourousis, but if Bou is the third big guy in the rotation I think that even Baskonia is better. With Bourousis Baskonia would be a F4 contender, he would play 25 minutes per game being the leader of the team. Knowing Pascual I think that Bourousis will regret leaving Baskonia, he will remember his season in Vitoria as the best in his career.

First of all, he is never going to play like he did last year, even if he had stayed in Baskonia with Perasovic as a coach.

Secondly, his defense compares to Radjulica.

Thirdly, whenever he plays, PAO plays worse cause offense becomes totally static.