Jun 9, 2010, 10:04 pm
Well the reasonable thing happened, Zeljco renewed his contract till '12. The problem of PAO is the loss of top players. And I think it won't be easy to deal with. Let's face it Pao's problem this year was the lack of good bench players. It's a team of 4-5 and that's why they couldn't handle the injuries-issue. Every quality team , especially an old one, needs good alternatives. This year Pao had Pekovic, Diamantidis, Nicholas, Spanoulis n Batiste after January. Their back ups are at least not comparative. Tepic, Calathes, Perperoglou, Tsartsaris, Shermadini, Saras, Fotsis are far from the level Pao needs them to be. At least not any more! Pao needs 2-3 players + the possible replacements they might need -Pekovic, Spanoulis.
Bout Oly I think the coach is the 1st issue. I believe the next coach should be one of Ivkovic, Ivanovic, Pianigianni, Scariolo or Vujosevic.
My preference is Pianigianni. Penn, Halperin and Vujcic are out and I think Childress should be out too. 2 top combo guards 1 SF and 1 Center for the bench and Oly's ready. Somethin like
Teodosic, Papaloukas, Beverley
Spanoulis???, Gecevicius????
SF from the US, Vasilopoulos
Kleiza, Mavrokefalidis
Bourousis, Schortsianitis, Valanciunas/Raduljca/Petravicius/Erden/Mavroeidis/Marjanovic/Pleiss etc.........................
Bout Oly I think the coach is the 1st issue. I believe the next coach should be one of Ivkovic, Ivanovic, Pianigianni, Scariolo or Vujosevic.
My preference is Pianigianni. Penn, Halperin and Vujcic are out and I think Childress should be out too. 2 top combo guards 1 SF and 1 Center for the bench and Oly's ready. Somethin like
Teodosic, Papaloukas, Beverley
Spanoulis???, Gecevicius????
SF from the US, Vasilopoulos
Kleiza, Mavrokefalidis
Bourousis, Schortsianitis, Valanciunas/Raduljca/Petravicius/Erden/Mavroeidis/Marjanovic/Pleiss etc.........................