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James was suspended after the VTB United League match with UNIKS in Kazan. The American was replaced three minutes later and did not return to the square. Mr. Itoudis explained his decision but did not provide details.
“I’m sorry to say that working together with James is now impossible. Mike’s first season with CSKA was carefree, a three-year contract was signed. This season, the club did everything they could to make the collaboration a success and delivered the expected results. The problems that have arisen could not be solved, we behaved as usual, but we could not maintain stability in the team, “said A. Vatutin in an interview with the portal metaratings.ru.
According to him, D. Itoudis is an experienced coach with his own team vision and is responsible for the results. In the words of A. Vatutin, the decision of the coaching staff to separate M. James is due to the well-being of the team.
Itoudis vs. Mike James: pic.twitter.com/OP9rzprJB1
– Matthias Schmidt (@ Dantinho31) March 27, 2021
“It just came to our knowledge then. He is a great basketball player who can win a single game and this has been proven time and again. He also knows how to enslave the spectators with impressive actions in the square. However, it has already happened that We can no longer resolve the conflict that has arisen. It is sad, but it is better to accept it than to live with the hope of some miracle, “said the head of CSKA.
Vladimir Gomelsky, a prominent commentator who has criticized Greece so far, also supported Itoudis in this conflict.
At the same time, the son of the legendary Soviet-era CSKA strategist Aleksandras Gomelskis noted that disagreements between the coach and the team star are not special – similar situations have constantly arisen in the team.
“There has not been a season without such conflicts since the 1970s. They were of different intensity, they received different reactions, but they were still present. And it is very good that the fans and the media did not know about it,” said V. Gomelskis .
This week CSKA has to play two Euroleague matches: on Tuesday with Zenit in Saint Petersburg and on Thursday with Chimki in the Moscow region. This is not the first time this season that a black cat has run between a 30-year-old American defender and a 50-year-old basketball specialist from Greece.
On one occasion, the CSKA camp and Mr. James were already angry in the middle of the season when the club failed to deliver the basketball player to his grandfather’s funeral in the United States. It was then thought that the sides of the API would rotate in different ways, but the club leaders managed to find common ground with the basketball player and the dangerous CSKA soldier returned to the lineup, at least temporarily.
Later, when another American loved one left for Anapilin, the star of the team had the opportunity to go home.
James averages 19.3 points per game in the Euroleague and is the most productive player in the tournament this season.
CSKA (10/20) ranks second in the tournament table. The American has also faced other basketball professionals who have coached him before in Europe.
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