2 months after the post I made the 2 unanswered defeats in the point, the situation comes to confirm me completely, and I'm going to write 10-15 draft thoughts on what is PAO.
1) PAO is 8-5 and 6th with 2 wickets from outside the play-offs. A pillow that would be much larger (personally I think 10-3 would be normal based on performance) and explain why. He lost to Villerbaune by winning by 13 at the start of the 4th quarter and by 8, 4 minutes before the end where he scored 2 points. With Armani he gained 7 points, 3,5 minutes before the end. With Alba, Argyris the Great managed to play with the same 5k for 20 minutes and with 5 players over 42 minutes !!! Of course, he also won a derby in the prolongation with the UCPP. All other wins are clear, even the one with Zalgiris.
With all of the above, he is entitled to 1-2 wins more and of course he would have had them if it had not been for Argiris.
2) The first positive of the above is the removal of Argyris, but the negative remains which is the bad planning. A program that is so bad not for the first time, but has become a habit in recent years. You start each year with a coach who, before the Euroleague starts, half of them don't want him and the other half say "let's see, let's not judge him". The same with Djordevic, with Ivanovic, with Pedoulaki, again with Pedoulaki, with Pascual (although the 2nd season was different there) etc ...
But all this seemed at first to be a coincidence and perhaps the president's anomaly or whim, but now it's more than ever a nice trick !!! So a great trick, covering the initially reduced budget, 2 of the bad choices that are charged to the departed and not the new coach and of course we never go F4, but always have a very sweet 4d taste in regular time or arbitration unfairness. in play-offs.
3) With all of the above, if you had a serious coach from the beginning and did all his tastes, then you would both be stripped. Besides, you wouldn't go to the trash for 2-3 wins that would probably get you a step up the ladder, maybe with an advantage, maybe a more blatant opponent in the play-offs.
4) So all this is the theory about coaches, president, players, placement, etc., but the most basic is now. PAO now without one of the many weights (the biggest) that was called Argyris, comes 4 turns before the end of the 1st round with 8-5 which should have been 10-3 and I personally believe the goal is to close the 1st round in 8th, which is not an easy thing at all. It would be if we were at 10-3 and that's why I stressed it. Because it is one thing to play "free" and as a favorite and another as forced to win. Also to say that for me the biggest of all the matches is the one with Fener. And why do you throw it again, and why do you go up, and why do you push it out of the playoffs even though it is early. 2nd goal the matches with CSSKA inside and Maccabi outside while he is absent. The match with Real outside is completely relaxed.
And now let's go to some observations:
1) Bovora in the 2 Euroleague bench matches (3 with Baskonia) showed by far the best face of this year's PAO. These are the only 3 games that PAO played defensively (the 4th worst of Euroleague), made terrible rotation and time management of key players with many changes that did not affect evolution, continued the strong attack (1st in Euroleague yesterday) and had no gaps intervals
2) Pitino in 2 matches (LFS-Barca), disappointed me and I explain the reasons: He didn't use Wael at all and was by far the best tall. And I disagree that he couldn't play because of Milutinov / Tomic. At least in their changes, he had to play.
He played too much with Papagiannis who has to save and become a basketball player. After the lad doesn't do it. End. It allowed Kalathis many triples that his predecessors and most notably Vovoras had cut. Certainly Nick is a playmaker but this is his weak point even if this year is his best season so far. He sidestepped Papapetrou several times yesterday in awesome form. He stayed very much with Thomas while showing that he was not having a good day.
GENERALLY he was "stuck" in a plan that many times showed that it did not work out.
Don't misunderstand them !!! It goes without saying that Pitino is a P-capital trainer, and Vovoras an apprentice magician, but the first evidence shows he is trying to give PAO another style he sees in the future, but until then something tells me we can eat some cuffs tossed.
3) PAO I say it over and over again has players and team for 8hrs and subplots for something better, but wanted to do 3 things. A coach (done), a Milutinov type center (we are too far since we have the worst center of 18), and 2-3 skaters as 2nd picks
4) Nick makes his best season at PAO (or one of the best) and let's hope he gets injured. He also always has the evil Genaris-Febaris in front.
5) The district is working clockwise but needs to be tighter on defense (ALL. Not when Nick comes out to be Dogs on the ground)
6) Waeli and Mitoglu are essential units of the game even with the shortest time. It is inconceivable that they play little as nothing.
7) Brown-Bentil-Johnson and Pappas in the way I write them, have been performing at least as a whole. Certainly 2-3 of them need to leave and come with other florists, even with less money.
And I'll close with the following two:
1) Get instantly tall. We can't go with Papagiannis until the end and get an ass high just before the playoffs. It will be a crime and with what I write the crime will have a name.
2) With taxation now at 22% from 45% by 2020, excuses don't exist !!! Money is there