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Originally Posted by Edska
Arlubas, Panathinaikos is scary, this team was terrific last season as well, but this year it's even more. The greens also signed Brandon Hunter. That man is a monster of the glass. The most scary thing is that whatever you let to come on the court, every player will get the job done. Bench players of Panathinaikos could probably be a starting five of other mid-level team of the Euroleague :AHH: . The game against Partizan 9 players appeared on the court more than 10 minutes and all of them played real good. One thing that i didn't expected was a hard win against Partizan. That was probably because more than one player (Milojevic) played good for Belgrade team. Not usual :ROFL:
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Yeah man that team has the same core for years now and Obradovic has done an amazing coaching job over the years.I mean if you see more games of Panathinaikos you can see that the plays and passes are almost automatic! Whenever there is a double team the offense will almost always find the open man.And as for the role players let me tell you some details.
Hatzivretas is supposed to be our defensive stopper.The Tayshaun Prince of our team.What most people don't know is that Hatzivretas was a big time scorer before we got him,being on the top scorers of the Greek league alongside some Americans who score for a living.And now because of the depth of this team he has become a defender!
Also Spanoulis was a starter and the leader of his previous team,Marousi,where he basically did everything.Score,pass,lead,defend.Now we get to have him as our 6th man who comes in and slashes the opposing defense and energizes our team.We really have depth this year.
Last year we lacked the depth plus we didn't have any rebounding and interior presences.This year we fixed the depth but our post presence is still kinda week.Femerling is out at the moment and Tomasevic seems like he won't be fully healthy again for this year.I'm waiting to see how Brandon Hunter will do.He certainly has the size and the rebounding "hunger".If we can solidify our inside presence a bit more we will surely be a big time candidate for the title.
As for the Partizan game I was shocked as well that they managed to put up such a strong fight until the end but you know how Yugoslavian teams are.If they are "on their day" they can play against any team.Moral story: Don't ever count out the Yugoslavians! :Big Smile