Greece suffered a loss against Canada in the opening game of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Gytis shares his thoughts on the main issues Greeks & Giannis Antetokounmpo faced against SGA’s squad.
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Aει στο δ..ολο ξεφτιλισμένοι, έπρεπε να ντρεπεστε!
Yanis is the best in the team i dont deny. But team is full of talented people with many european trophies. They play as team and what they achieved they achieved as a team. So stop this yanis can't do alone and bulls. Did you watch how Toliopoulos play? Or papanikolaou?
Yup, this one and the Australia videos aged pretty badly
Giannis at FIBA is just a good plater as soon as referees do not allow bullying and travelling, something NBA players are awful at.
I agree with you.
If sloukas was playing this would have been a different match and probably
a different outcome. Greece always had great playmakers…
and with this team luck of that caliber of player like spanoulis, Diamantidis etc
there is no future. We should be satisfied with the result
Team sports in Greece suffer cause of insufficient player production. Why? Because Greek league clubs don't care to invest there. They only invest in "play ready" foreign players, that will: A) Help them win the Greek league championship and b) Help them rank as high as possible in the euroleague. If a title comes along the way, it's of course welcome, the clubs can flex the title to their rivals, something that "feeds" short sighted fans (aka the majority) as well. Also, hellenising foreign players only adds to the problem, cause these players will help a team for a limited time, maybe a world cup, or an olympiad and that's it. But what about the future?? So a CHANGE OF MENTALITY is what Greece needs. Fans wake up and put some pressure on your clubs. Or else you will not see players like: Spanoulis, Papaloukas, Diamantidis, Fotsis, Hatzivrettas, Alvertis, Oikonomou, Sigalas, Papanikolaou(both actually) and many many others ever again.
Why Larentzakis plays???
@BasketNews having grown up playing basketball her in Greece I believe, at least as far as I have seen that for some reason nobody likes shooting. I remember at the outdoors courts, young and old, nobody liked shooting long range shots. Nobody liked that play-style. Everybody was about short to medium range penetration. For better or worse that is the way that greek people like to play basketball and it is only inevitable for that to be depicted in the professional level as well. You can have Yiannis doing all the work but with those statistics you are not going to go very far. It’s a pity definitely, for the National Beloved(as is the nickname of the national basketball team), because even if we had not great shooting accuracy but at least not such a bad one, we would had won both games against Canada and Spain.
Ive never seen a player like Giannis…He can still be efficient and dominant with 2,3 or 4 players gaurding him!!
Giannis vs the world! He has 61 PTS in the first 2 games (40% of team's points) 23-34 FG (67.6%) 71%TS!!! The rest of the greece team has 95 PTS 31-95 FG (32.6%)😭😭💀 GET GIANNIS SOME HELP
Why didn't Tyler Dorsey make the Greek team, he's clearly the better shooter/scorer that Greece has.
Mark my words..When Giannis retire from Greek National Team we will begin win Medals again
Brother chill we played the #2 team in the world
Sloukas absence was as painfully evident as it can be. With Sloukas scoring 12-15, this would have been a 'W' easily.
Giannis – Calathes pairing is not so bad, as at least Nikos can playmake at a high level, as evident by the number of assists in this game (and others). Pairing with Walkup is just bad though, he doesn't provide much else than defense
Besides the bad shooting, Canada's full court defense was very effective in the first half. This is where a guard such as Kostas Sloukas would have made a difference, in many ways, shooting, one more ball hander, allowing Calathes and Walkup to take a few breathers. If a few 3pts went in, this would have been a different story, plus Greece's better 2nd half, give me lots of hope for future games.
Guys, it's simple. Greece played well to stay so close to Canada. Aside from Giannis and SGA, the Canadian team is at a much higher level. The Greeks missed shots due to the high rhythm and intensity of the game, which pushed them to their limits. However, they minimized turnovers as much as possible, paid close attention to rebounds, stayed focused and determined and with good planning on defense, and managed to keep the score close. If you have Dort pressing Calathes, Walkup, Larentzakis, or Toliopoulos, they are never gonna score.
As a greek, i think u have a fucking good channel, cheers 👌👌
He shouldn't play in the Greek team
So you guys think Greece -4 then?
Also the mistake was not to give any minutes to moraitis to harampopoulos and hougkaz
I hope we beat tomorrow Spain
Give Canada credit.
if Greece national teams plays half as decent as in the qualifier tournament, they can reach the medals
Saturday's game was mainly due to a high rate of turnovers, low percentage from free throws and 3 pointers and the fact that Canada's defense limited their time near the basket. If they find (and they should find a way) around the above, they should have no problem playing for a medal. Spain and Australia will be sorry to follow the game with Canada. Maybe this was a worthy shocker to put everything in the right place, before the critical games.
Kind of crazy Luka couldn’t get his team to qualify
lu dort repping montreal
Watch out for Australia🇬🇷🇦🇺 i cant wait for it
Since YOU named Canada as n2 favorites, and Canada barely won Giannis and Pap, you have to admit that Canada is a really bad team, with no talent at all.
That's why I always laugh when people say the world is catching up. Giannis and Jokic got to carry carry their sorry teams. France has a chance but they need better guards. Luka is probably one of the best players in the world and can't even drag Slovenia by himself
Let me tell you….Hellas lost the game cause he never appear in the first half…it was so nervous and the guards out of mind…..As a panathinaikos fan and watching calathes from 2009…. i ca'n't remember so bad performance like he did against Canada. If i remember right he lost 2 times the ball in the first half , i think he missed all the free throws 0/4, It was his worst game as far i remember him playing.
For the shooting guards , Hellas have good shooters in open shoots….like laretzakis (1/7 with Canada and i don't think it will miss so much in next games), Toliopoulos is a great attacking guard with a killer instict….Keep your eyes on him.
Moraitis wich is a really good shooter couldn't feet agaist Canada for defence tactic so that's why he was DNP, also the same with Charalampopoulos .
Finaly kalaitzakis was the X factor of the musch to be close to the game with his amazing man to man defence ability.