I agree. Gold medal is the roof and the bottom is the disqualification from this mini tournament. This team needs a huge achievement in order to become mentally strong and have a consistency in the following years. Spanoulis was one of the strongest mentally players (him and Diamantidis) of all time in Europe. So i trust him

well spotted, our teams are like us, capable for the best or the worst, we don't like middle of the road things

@@giorgoslolos9132 good point 👍🇬🇷

Not how it works

Really it is, Grecce is way better and experience team. So answer is very clear. ​@@garaznisokak4295

​@@garaznisokak4295 That's how it works, Dragic also played, imagine now without him on the team. It's over Slovenia is a former shell of it's past specially when they naturalized Nebo everyone knew it was over.

Walkup guards doncic or kalaitzakis or we double teaming and we unleasing giannis monster

thats all I wanna hear period.

Giannis alone cant beat slovenia just like luka alone cannot beat greece

Fun fact, Greece by far made better 3pt percentages than Slovenia

When you have a guy like Giannis on your roster, three-pointers are perhaps the most important way to determine the winner. No coach will choose to lose because of Giannis. So, they guard him with double and triple teams and hope that the other four players won't score from outside the arc. This is how the Bucks have been building their roster all these years, and this is why Greece has struggled all these years. The key is to find a way to integrate Giannis into the squad, rather than building the squad around Giannis (talking ONLY about Greece), because Giannis unfortunately isn't Durant, who can kill you from a distance if you give him some space.

@@georgekaraferas4158Giannis’ midrange is respectable, so is his post game. He also knows how to make the right reads when they send multiple defenders at him, he’s literally been doing it for the past 4-5 years. Also Giannis still has his quickness, give him space and he’ll close the distance and be at the rim before the defense has time to realize

@@tylerdejesus6333 I agree! I am not saying something different. Send him an extra player and he will defenetly find the open one. And here is my point and I think also the point from Donatas... The open players must hit the threes! For example yesterday everyone was more than decent from the three point line and this is why Greece had an easy night. This is why we need Sloukas at the team. He cann be both a creator at the pick n roll with Giannis (like Nick) but he can also kill you from outside.

They all look up to him as well , so they might even play harder

The guy who is most elite defender is Kalaitzakis.

Ο Λουκα χρειάζεται αμυντικό με πιο πολύ μέγεθος

I am the only one who thinks that Giannis' appearance makes us worse?

@@pelopidas9100yes

​@@pelopidas9100 Yes you are the only one

​@@pelopidas9100yes because ur stupid

​@@pelopidas9100Giannis like Kendrick Nunn for PANA.He is a walking bucket.. We just have to use him wisely and not overfeed him in the post

you are allowed to lift your pivot foot but not land it again

Not travel. You are totally allowed to do as long as pivot won't touch floor again before shooting the ball

If sneaking hits would affect him emotionally, he would deserve to lose. Not saying it is done, but saying this is how it would be in such scenario.

Mitoglou is not 5.

@@innosanto He will play as a 5 in the national team when giannis is the 4. And thats exactly the 5 Greece need. Giannis defensively covers up any weakness on the post. Panathinaikos is a completely different team dont mix it up.

You make some solid points. My only problem is that I personally didn't see a good enough defence against Dominican Republic. This could change but Greece needs its strong defence to win otherwise there will be trouble

@@theoneeditor399they won by 30

@markos1304 I know, but that's because Greece's offense was unstoppable. The truth is that while Dominican Pepublic's defense was nonexistent, Greece didn't succeed in containing them. Of course, I could be wrong and it was the first game, but over here in Greece, a lot are a bit worried

Man its ok its good to hear hus opinion, I disagree with him but is good to losten to dofferent opinions it makes the podcast interesting

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😂 let's not exaggerate. Kalaitzakis is a good defender and Toliopoulos and Charalmpopoulos can be solid role players. There's no star players in those guys, and the only one that plays Euroleague is Kalaitzakis.

I have seen young Diamantidis.Kalaitzakis is Diamantidis material if a coach believe in him. Toliopoulos reminds me Spanoulis but he is a little be shorter but he plays hard in defence..They are good players. If you see their skill you can understand. If see stats you dont. Stats come as a result of a skillful player with experience that is trusted by his coach . These players didn have the the experience and the trust. But we will tell in five years.. I also believed that Sloukas was F4 Mvp level but you guys didnt belive me. Look the skill not the stats

@@thanasistagaras3256 τι λες ρε μαλακα;; Κλαίω

Yes

Yeah it would be great if both were in Olympics but only one moves to Olympics

And Croatia

Maybe Greece-Croatia

😂😂😂

well to be honest i believe the same.i like croatia more as team.slovenia seems to have 1-2 players right now.so i believe croatia gonna win slovenia but i dont know if can beat greece. i support greece and i am big fan ,iam not greek ,iam danish who living at greece some years now and i love them :)

@@slavcpanigaz846 still funny?