Our National Basketball Team came this close to the Olympics for the first time after the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Despite Shane Larkin’s injury, 12 Giant Men, which has become a very ambitious team on paper with the participation of Ersan and Furkan, who were eliminated from the NBA at the last moment, will fight for the final with Greece in Victoria tonight. Greece is a much more experienced and skilled team at these levels, but they came to Canada with a very short squad. In Greece, coached by Rick Pitino, there is no Giannis Antetokoumpo, Taylor Dorsey, Papapetrou, Papanikolaou, Printezis and Vasilis Spanoulis, who quit basketball. We are almost full staff.
We’re better at forwards
The neighbor will try to navigate with the basketball minds and experience of two experienced quarterbacks, Nick Calathes and Kostas Sloukas. We are missing here. Berk Uğurlu was also injured after Larkin. Doğuş Özdemiroğlu and Buğrahan are not considered very sufficient for these levels. But when we include Cedi-Furkan duo and Melih, who played very well in the first two matches, we outweigh the forwards. Against big players like Papagiannis and Mitoğlu, the two stars of Panathinaikos, we have Sertaç, Ersan, Alperen and Ömer Faruk.
We have potential
We have a better and stronger team than Greece in every aspect. Maybe we didn’t play the Uruguay match very well, but we had a team that knew what it was doing against the Czech Republic, played the right basketball and tried to defend well. Compared to Greece, we rested for one more day and had the opportunity to prepare. Of course, our job will not be easy, but we have to beat Greece and fight for the Olympics against Canada, which still lacks in the final. We also have the potential to do this. Good luck 12 Giant Men…
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