After 2 summers of complaining and asking for immediate refreshment, I'm convinced that the Greek team will not be qualifying for World competitions for a few years and will be getting to the Eurobaskets through qualification stages..
This is, in my opinion, unavoidable. The new format of the Eurobasket is helping today's strong teams become stronger, but Greece is not a strong team. It is a small group of players (Zisis, Spanoulis, Bourousis, Sofo, maybe even Perperoglou) governing the team and maybe passive coaches will never be as passive as Kazlauskas, but they will never have the last word
My proposition is of course, immediate refreshment, as mentioned before. This means that, as hard as it is, the above mentioned players should never play again for the NT and some other guys (ready or not in 2011, it doesn't matter, because Greece won't go anywhere even with the experienced ones) be there to become the future members
17 names to follow in the next year.. Any coach who has the balls and isn't afraid of cutting the existing cast (the guys "taking over" from the two Greats, Papaloukas and Diamantidis), fearing he will lose his job, should not call them back and build over the following line:
G- N. Calathes, Milosevic, Verginis, Sloukas
G- Vasiliadis, Pappas, Bramos, Giannopoulos
F- Papanikolaou, P. Calathes, Chrisikopoulos, Jankovic, Kaselakis
F- Printezis, Kaimakoglou, Fotsis, Tsairelis
C- Koufos, Mavroidis, Mavrokefalidis, Vouyoukas
This is, in my opinion, unavoidable. The new format of the Eurobasket is helping today's strong teams become stronger, but Greece is not a strong team. It is a small group of players (Zisis, Spanoulis, Bourousis, Sofo, maybe even Perperoglou) governing the team and maybe passive coaches will never be as passive as Kazlauskas, but they will never have the last word
My proposition is of course, immediate refreshment, as mentioned before. This means that, as hard as it is, the above mentioned players should never play again for the NT and some other guys (ready or not in 2011, it doesn't matter, because Greece won't go anywhere even with the experienced ones) be there to become the future members
17 names to follow in the next year.. Any coach who has the balls and isn't afraid of cutting the existing cast (the guys "taking over" from the two Greats, Papaloukas and Diamantidis), fearing he will lose his job, should not call them back and build over the following line:
G- N. Calathes, Milosevic, Verginis, Sloukas
G- Vasiliadis, Pappas, Bramos, Giannopoulos
F- Papanikolaou, P. Calathes, Chrisikopoulos, Jankovic, Kaselakis
F- Printezis, Kaimakoglou, Fotsis, Tsairelis
C- Koufos, Mavroidis, Mavrokefalidis, Vouyoukas
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