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Panathinaika legend of Athens Dimitris Diamantidis recalls the legends of Lithuanian basketball that he met differently during his career.
Arvydas Macijauskas
Position: | SG, PG |
Years: | 40 |
Height: | 192 cm |
Weight: | 93 kg |
Place of birth: | Klaipeda, Lithuania |
The Greek star named Šarūnas Jasikevičius and Arvydas Macijauskas in communication with Betarades.gr. He remembers the latter with bitterness for the confrontations with the “Baskonia” of Vitoria.
“This team was the only one we couldn’t beat,” said Diamantidis. – Regarding the players, I would highlight Macijauskas because we simply could not defend ourselves against him. We didn’t want to lose it, but it already happened because we just couldn’t find a way to stop it. “
2009 Diamantidis, who won the Euroleague championship title along with Sharas, is the current boss of Kaunas “Žalgiris”. Remember the coach in another context, such as the biggest “party lion”.
Greek Jasikevičius, 40, was also considered one of the team’s best friends of all time. Among them are Stephane Lasme, James Gist, Mike Batiste, Vassilis Spanouli, Fragiskos Alvertis. The most unpleasant companion is Steve Bucknall.
The best Greek basketball players, according to Diamantidio, in addition to Giannis Antetokounmpo, are Spanoulis, Nick Calathes and Kostas Sloukas.
The worst man in Panathinaikos After the departure of Željkas Obradovičius, Diamantidis considers Duškas Ivanovičius as coach.
He named Juan Carlos Navarro as a basketball player, and the most unfortunate thing is that the roads do not cross on the same team.
The best moment of career in the national team is in 2005. In the semifinals of the European Championship, the victory was torn by three points, and in the basketball club, in 2007. Final block of the Greek league for Alex Acker.
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