Honored Coach of Russia Stanislav Yeremin explained how Spain achieved success at the European Championships and why teams with superstars failed in the tournament.
The basketball players of the Spanish national team beat the French team on Sunday in Berlin in the final of the European Championship, which took place in Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy and Georgia. The Spanish national team has won EuroBasket for the fourth time in history, having won in 2009, 2011 and 2015.
– Spain have a very good base to win. See how they perform teams of all ages. Strongest everywhere. What is their league? How many players do they have in the National Basketball Association. Yes, they change generations, but EuroBasket showed that those who came are worthy guys. You can accidentally lose, but you can’t win by chance, “RG” quotes Eremin.
– Teams with superstars have failed: Slovenia with Luka Doncic, Greece with Giannis Antetokounmpo, Serbia with Nikola Jokic. Do these failures have anything in common?
– Each of these teams had their own reasons for the unsuccessful performance. Assume the Serbian national team. It was a surprise to me that it was led by 73-year-old Svetislav Pesic. He is a well-deserved coach who has achieved results with both clubs and the national team. But age still takes its toll. A new generation is coming, and it’s not that you understand basketball and know how to build a training process. These guys are good for your grandkids, they have a different mentality that requires a different energy. And Pesic is an authoritative coach. Maybe the current Serbian national team needs a different approach. Despite the fact that the Serbs have a very strong composition in terms of names, they lacked internal chemistry.
As for Greece. His head coach Dimitris Itoudis has so many awards, so many wins, he also knows how to organize the training process, but it’s no secret that playing the game is not Itoudis’ strong point. It probably had an effect too. It was in this championship that the winning teams found options to strengthen themselves during the match. And Itoudis, it seems to me, did not find such moments. Well, Slovenia… They are a team that depends a lot on the performances of Doncic and Dragic. But maybe such a team doesn’t need a coach. Specifically, we need a coach who wouldn’t interfere with these basketball players to play. Well, the burden of responsibility also affected: at the most important moment, the realization that “we are stronger, we must win” crushed them.
– Hypothetically, what could our EuroBasket team count on, which qualified for the tournament, but was excluded from it for political reasons?
— Our team could count on the playoffs. The fact that the Russian team did not participate in such a big forum is a tragedy for our basketball and a loss for the European. Our teams have always been respected, they have been considered. We know how to surprise. Another point: European basketball has taken a big step forward. Look, even teams like Estonia, Finland, Poland have gone up. And we are unfortunately cut off from big basketball, added Eremin.
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Source : MatchTV
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