Greece vs. Puerto Rico Basketball @ Preolympics Athens 2008

BestOf Basketball "Greece vs. Puerto Rico" at the Preolympics Tournament in Athens 2008.
19.07.08

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Sports

Tags:

• Basketball
• Hellas
• Greece
• Puerto
• Rico
• Giannakis
• Papaloukas
• Diamantidis
• Spanoulis
• Athens
• 2008
• Preolympics

[giannakis1995]

pou einai h tapa tou sofokli ston ramos

[tsagalbill]

O Ramos san prezaki den itan?

[iancheng1990]

@kaizokuGR thanks

[kaizokuGR]

@iancheng1990 vassilis spanoulis 

[iancheng1990]

whats the name of greek number 7?

[Puertorico161]

Well, to be claer, who wins the World Championship of Basketball, USA right!, why we need to play as the Europeans, we need to play the same way Puerto Rico play, but players has to be UNSELFISH, thats the key, we have a lot of talent, no doubt about it, just need to play UNSELFISH

[christebs]

@qiannakis1995 ston sandiago htan h tapa tou sofo...

[TheKomhtas]

a re ti kala paidia bgazei to puerto rico...

[joevald32]

@vanmyl In PR we are going to use a similar basketball program of Greece and Spain to develope our players and show them they way of the european style. In the early 80s and in the mid 90s we use to played the euro style but todays players like JJ Barea and Arroyo likes the americans style and a more individualist style and we have failed. In 1990 we were 6 in the fiba rankings and today we are 15 in the rankings, thats how our game have change in a negative way.

[joevald32]

@vanmyl Nahh!!! Greece created a program to developed young players and todays is one off the best basketball programs in the world. Galis wow is the most incredible player of Europe of all time. I used to said that Drazen Petrovic was better than Galis but the real fact is that Petrovic was in a european dream team Yugoclavia and Galis did it almost alone. I dont want to take credit to Yiannakis and Christoudoulu and Fasoulas they were great players but Galis guide them to glory.

[vanmyl]

@joevald32 I remember reading somewhere Galis picked up a lot of his basic skills playing against much stronger PR fellas in NJ, street rules. It definitely helped him, very few players at the time knew how to go toe-to-toe against stronger and taller opponents and consistently come on top. So, I guess us Greeks owe PR something

[joevald32]

@ronaraullo Yeah man i know that. Galis is a legend as solid as a rock. I have seen players like Drazen Petrovic, Oscar Schmitd, Dejan Bodiroga, Dino Menegin all this players were great but none of them have what Galis haved, HEART. Well Greece have a lot of great players like Panagiotis Fasoulas and Panagiotis Yanniakis and todays great greek players like Theo Papaloukas, Vassilous Spanoulis, Bourousis, Diamantidis. I wish my country have a basketball program like Greece.