Greece Was Not Only About Giannis

URBONUS’ Donatas Urbonas and Augustas Suliauskas discuss the winners of the Olympic Qualifying Tournament, highlighting the greatness of Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Greece national team, as well as the biggest upset of the qualifiers.
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[@asicdathens]

Even the most remote elementary school in Greece has a basketball court.

[@SisigExpress]

and we could notplay basketball because a lot play football on the basketball court

[@GeorgeTelop]

​@@SisigExpress in basketball we are good in national and club level. In football we're nothing. We're a country focused on basketball that'll never change

[@user-mp2fb9ku5o]

We have Galis to thank for that

[@benocarroll7683]

Basketball courts are in the remote places in every school in Ireland, doesn’t mean anything! More the culture and how your talent is brought up, developed and Naturalized players

[@thesoundinyourhead1782]

Not many kids play ball in Greece nowadays tho

[@brakmaster]

Calathes is definitely playing the best basketball of his career and he was vital especially in the last game against Croatia.

[@chrisd997]

Spanoulis effect, he said it in his greek interview that main goals is every free shot to be taken no matter if it goes in or out and secondly winning mentality . Dark offensive horse is Toliopoulos, he has a killer instinct if he feels trusted and supported.

[@j.origin]

Giannis gravity is the key💙🤍 Shoutout to calathes man.. Hes playin his best basketball

[@nikolaosaggelhdis787]

Shoutout to calathes man

[@JohnnyLREACTS]

As a Hellenic NT fan I have always so much respect for Luka and Slovenia Basketball Team. We love to see Europeans like Luka excel in the NBA game.

[@giuseppemaggio5894]

The different results and performances we have seen from several national teams throughout these past 4 summers prove how competitive the basketball landscape has got worldwide. Up until 10-15 years ago, Team USA was several steps ahead of everyone else, than there was a small list of competitive national teams that were not on the same level as Team USA but clearly better than the rest. Now I can recall AT LEAST 15 national teams that are not far from each other in terms of talent and efficiency. I say that because we have seen a national team achieve great results one summer 1 year before or after achieving a pretty disappointing one. This means that details like a coach's impact on the team and the single players, the mental and physical condition of a single player and many other details are going to have a HUGE impact on a game's final score.

[@dimbit8858]

You are very popular in Greece, you know basketball and you have a European perspective on things.

[@dziosdzynes7663]

Spanoulis the GOAT

[@plhrkos4479]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kondoesroblox69420]

@@plhrkos4479 kala ntaxi o Galis einai kaluteros alla o spanoulis einai stous top 5 ellhnes

[@theodoroslampropoulos7859]

Finally some respect for the greek team. Slovenia was obviously much worse than Greece, as was Croatia.

[@gpetouss]

You keep mentioning that defence helped us (especially vs Slovenia), because offensively "Greece roster is limited". But we scored 96 against Slovenia, 93 vs Egypt, 109 vs Dom and "only" 80 against Croatia.

[@georgelioulias3879]

they re corrent.only a handful of our players are offensively gifted natural born scorers.but spanoulis made them better with his coaching.never been so excited watching our team before.

[@KA-gg6go]

​@@georgelioulias3879Yannis, Toliopoulos you think are not natural scorers?

[@Hermes-hy6hg]

We love your coverings on these tourneys! #Atoutaler

[@Pelasgos14]

Thanks guys. Pure basketball lovers. Greetings from Hellas(Greece).

[@elgriego74]

Greece played a smart game utilising Giannis where it was needed. The team cannot be build around Giannis because it neutralises many great assets that Greece has and Spanoulis can use to increase the teams efficiency! Yes when the going get tough then Giannis might take over for a few minutes but he is very conscious and can judge how to utilise his teammates!

[@syngramadigitals]

As Greek I can tell that it was not about Giannis or Papagiannis, but it was about the TEAM. No matter the comments, this team is a TEAM, solid in all aspects, and strong, united. Yes they can improve, but so far, the showed that, they won with HARD WORK and not due to star names like Giannis. Each one of them, they put a small piece on the puzzle of winning.

[@xenofonkarykis8417]

Players like Giannis, Luka, they'll do the job as long as you don't play hero ball and their teams will win too playing great basketball at that. When all the focus is on one player the team will choke offensively. It's a team sport and obvious as it may seem often enough teams end up doing exactly this in reality especially when it's national teams where the chemistry can often be an issue and there is one huge star among them. Greece not only about Giannis sums up nicely why Greece won easier than expected.

[@pan_bev_nice5960]

Greece is a good team, but there are monster teams in the Olympics, like USA, Spain, & Serbia… Cheers from Greece.

[@felicegreece]

Well said.. I wish we stood a chance for a medal but I highly doubt it.. USA , Canada, Germany, Serbia, Spain .. I mean we have to become another team in order to win teams like that :(

[@bvalles1]

And France.

[@Kevinjimtheone]

- Donatas seeing Greek NT fans: “My brothers!” - Donatas seeing Olymbaicos BC fans: “Roaches…”.

[@poogapooga3176]

Giannis' brother is the GOAT.

[@johngialamas]

Well said

[@MURATTI77]

If you add Sloukas this Team is a Killer

[@user-mp2fb9ku5o]

Sloukas said yesterday that he won't play no matter what. Unfortunately...

[@tfdtfdtfd]

@@user-mp2fb9ku5o Huge bummer.....it will be the reason Greece does not go super deep in the OG tournament....because now all it takes is one game when either Calathes or Walkup do not play the game of their life.

[@felicegreece]

​@@user-mp2fb9ku5owhy doesn't he participate in the team??!!

[@user-mp2fb9ku5o]

@@felicegreece He said that since he didn't participate in the pre-Olympics he doesn't want to take the spot of someone who did and got the Greek team to the Olympics. It makes sense but at the same time getting a place on the podium is more important than the egos of the players...anyways, i guess we gonna have to compete without him

[@felicegreece]

@@user-mp2fb9ku5o behind all this, I think there's (also) the fact that Sloukas never gave to the national team what he gives to his other clubs..

[@kapouranisrassi8530]

Offense wasnt that Bad and Sloukas will add some Extra offensive Power AS well so Let the Games begin 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏀🏀🏀🏀

[@georgiosparaskeva8038]

The Cobra Shot stole the show !

[@JoyMadrugada]

Stay with Slovenia we dont mind all good

[@yiorgosr2]

Finally, for the first time

[@MattTriantaf]

Although i dislike his character and his attitude, sloukas must me a part of the Greek team in the Olympics. Toliopoulos has grown up but at this stage the team still needs as scoring combo guard. Sadly, Moraitis really has to back off to give his place for him

[@felicegreece]

Why isn't sloukas in the team???

[@gamatoutsikos]

Injury ​@@felicegreece

[@gamatoutsikos]

He will affect the chemistry. Good player yes. But chemistry is more important than skills sometimes. Don't disrupt what we have

[@svengaliUG]

Spanoulis said the team must take every open shot and Greece are gonna get so many because Giannis' floor running and paint dominance collapses defenses. If they keep taking their shots and make them at a good clip, and keep this stingy defense, Greece will medal at the Olympics.

[@sanjin8867]

Oh look, someone opened their eyes 😂

[@countpapadakula]

Vasilis Spanoulis

[@GPap-jw5sm]

statistics cant measure inteligence of Greek Players

[@siniskamikaze]

But they didn’t have an answer for Doncic how did they qualify?

[@peperman21]

💛🖤

[@NICKEX99]

You always hating Greece. First it was Panathinaikos in the EuroLeague, secondly was the national team of Greece. Either way, happy to prove the doubters wrong.

[@thanoskalamaris3671]

Not picking your team is not hating

[@uchihazion2754]

@@thanoskalamaris3671 ασε μας ρε εξυπνε και εγω ολυμπιακος ειμαι και οντως δεν μας γουσταρουν ουτε euroleague ουτε πουθενα τους ελληνες αλλα γιαυτο τρωνε και πουτσα :*

[@NICKEX99]

@@thanoskalamaris3671 nah bro ain’t like that. Always has some negative to say even if it’s made up.

[@gamatoutsikos]

He has admired olympiakos bball in the past. Panathinaikos went from 12th to 1st. Not many would have seen that let's be honest. He is not anti Greek. Just his opinions

[@JohnKarayiannis-hb2xv]

Go Greece

[@aristotelious5034]

not great offensivly but defence gives the wins

[@vasiliszaxaropoulos8726]

😮😮😮😮😮

[@kokoklonis]

nick the quick nesquik effect

[@user-po6oh9rq1v]

Urbonas with the good words?! Greece will fail miserably

[@pantelisliakos2481]

This team with the addition of Sloukas could be the 3rd best national team ever. Unfortunately, he is injured and also a little strange as fas as his connection with his teammates goes. Really sad to be honest...

[@galatcompuertorico8461]

🇵🇷👌🏽👍🏽🇺🇸

[@AndrianaSiantani]

For whatever reason you guys seems that you are always get it "wrong" with everything that have to do with anything Greek! Teams, players the National Team.. 😅

[@syano1222]

And I thought you were unbiased??? Gilas!!!

[@futurehofer1564]

The best team was the one that won the tournament without being the host

[@katireei7761]

Can some Lithuanian answer me, why the government has so many restrictions with double passports, has to do with Russia or something?

[@mskidi]

Do us all a favor please and stop talking about Antetokoumpo. Its been a gruelling decade, for the first time in its glorious history the greek national team has been sidelined and all the focus taken up by a single player and his posse and its been all failure anyway.

[@felicegreece]

@@mskidi thank god someone said it 🙏👏👏👏

[@whitegardenia3813]

Too right!!! So many exceptional Greek players are constantly ignored. Most of the times they are the ones who take Greece to the big tournaments when Anteto cannot play....and yet he gets most of the credit. It's so unfair.

[@MrSheduur]

Good for Greece, but I doubt they will be playing for a medal. They are still too weak to beat any of the top 5 teams.

[@titoskesar2133]

Which are the top 5 teams for you?

[@felicegreece]

Exactly:( I'm afraid we can't ever beat USA, Canada, Germany, Serbia, Spain...

[@mr.martnz14]

Interesting because Puerto Rico was as consistent and solid has Greece. Ask Italy and Lithuania.

[@jay_kulina]

It was indeed, but let's be honest: with the perimeter D that Greece can produce and taking into account that Puerto Rico's strength lies with their guards(Greece only faced some troubles from the team with the best bigs in Zubac and Saric), would Puerto Rico have any chance of beating this Greek team atm? I think that's why Puerto Rico wasn't mentioned. Because Giannis would party like there is no tomorrow against Puerto Rico. He would get Condit into foul trouble with ease and then GG.

[@jimmyking92]

Greece has more than enough bodies to throw defensively to combat Puerto Rico's guards. Puerto Rico has no bodies capable of defending G. Ante.

[@user-mp2fb9ku5o]

@@jay_kulina That big guy from Egypt also had his way with us. What we gonna do against France i donno... At least Gobert is kinda soft..

[@jay_kulina]

@@user-mp2fb9ku5o To get to France, we have to qualify from our group first! Which is a big task against Canada, Australia and Spain. I mean there is no way we're beating Canada. Maybe we catch Australia(superior roster than Greece) in a shooting offnight and it's 50-50 against Spain(i think we're about equally strong). I would be delighted if we somehow get to play France. Quarter-finals or better means the Greek team would be super successful in this venture.

[@titoskesar2133]

@@user-mp2fb9ku5o no he is not my friend dont listen to what idiotic USA pundits say about him they just hate him because he speaks with an accent

[@user-bf3ys3oj5r]

you cant see beyond your nose my friends leave the prediction aside!

[@romanreigns5926]

And the worst team of the group in Olympics without sloukas we don't stand a chance

[@ellaniostheos]

hahahahahahahahahahha, Kostakis needs vacation in order to stay fit and healthy for his team.......No matter what Ellas will go through, beacause the TEAM IS THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, Kostakis is just another player, nothing more and nothing less......

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

Lol Greece is a top 6 team. They will make it past group stage.

[@dimipar6643]

@@ellaniostheos ακομα πονας?!εχει και του χρονου περιμενε!

[@romanreigns5926]

@@TokyoBalletReprise maybe top 8 and then it's over

[@ellaniostheos]

@@dimipar6643 Με ντιφαλα με Μποντιρογκα και τρίο διαιτητών στους τελικούς?? Χαχαχαχαχαχαχαχαχαχαχαχαχα, έχεις χάρη που έχουμε δεν έχουμε Μαρινακη και στο μπάσκετ για να στείλει να παίζεις Α εσκανα..........

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

Greek Basketball NT 2024 🇬🇷 --------- C: Spanoulis --------- Papagiannis Mitoglou Giannis Rogavopoulos Papanikolaou Papapetrou Thanasis Kalaitzakis Dorsey Toliopoulos Sloukas Calathes ---------

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

sloukas not playing

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

@@TokyoBalletReprise I know that. Im saying, this would probably be the best roster Greece could have fielded this Year for the Olympics 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@user-tr4jg8yv2u]

@@SpartanLeonidas1821αν βγάλεις Ντόρσεϊ και βάλεις γουοκαπ ναι θα ήταν η καλύτερη ομάδα