Giannakopoulos Hard Speech: “Only 3-0 is accepted – let's break them up”
“Do you have any complaints from the club? Talk to me honestly, now is the time to say it. I take your silence as no, “Giannakopoulos stressed to the players on the occasion of the team's image in the United Arab Emirates, and continued saying in the run-up:” If you respect me, if you think I am near you, whether you are in the team a few months or two years, anything beyond 3-0. You are the best team in Europe, with the best roster and the best coach. “
In fact, he made sense: “I ask you and please do it for me! I look at you in the eyes! Do it for me. At Olympiacos they do not talk to each other. You can finish them! Dissolve them! To win! If we win this title, in these finals, we will break up Olympiacos for the coming years. This is even more important than the Euroleague title! You have the talent, the beginnings …, you have everything. Please do it for me. Let's all go together! “
In detail what he said to Panathinaikos players:
'Good evening to everyone,
I have some bad news. We are not European champions anymore. Have you perceived it? Has impressed on your head? Fenerbahce conquered it because she was hungry. They entered the stadium knife on the teeth, like we do last year. They don't have a better roster than us. You are the best roster in Europe. But they played as a team, as we played in the previous Final 4. One was trying to cover each other's mistakes as a team, as a family. Why did we conquer it last year? It was not just the roster, it was the family atmosphere that prevailed between you. Unfortunately, I am saddened to say that I didn't see anything similar this year. Even in recent days it is not like that, as I have heard.
I would like to ask each of you individually, if you have any complaints from the club … you are paying on time, and any other request for any other issue you have to me, the administration, the coach is always positive. Correct me if I'm wrong. I ask again. Do you have any complaints from the club? Talk to me honestly, now is the time to say it. I take your silence as not.
I have a complaint. I know basketball is a game. You can win or lose, shoot the ball and get into the basket or get out. What I saw on Friday was people who were not ready to bleed for the team, to bleed for the title. This is the only thing I can't accept. I can accept everything. The defeats are part of the match. The defeats build winners.
As I have done everything for you, since you have no complaints, I would like to ask each of you personally and all together as a team to do that for me. In the summer, if we do not conquer this trophy, some of you will be in Mykonos, some in Paros, Santorini or anywhere. I will be in my house because wherever I go they will complain to me and find me.
If you respect me, if you think I'm close to you, whether you're in the team a few months or two years, anything beyond 3-0 will be unacceptable. You are the best team in Europe, with the best roster and the best coach. I'm not going to talk about me, but about the club that is the biggest in Europe.
We have the best stadium in Europe and the best fans. Please do this for me and I look at you all in the eyes. Do it for me.
I ask you and please do it for me! I look at you in the eyes! Do it for me. At Olympiacos they do not talk to each other. You can finish them! Dissolve them! To win! If we win this title, in these finals, we will break up Olympiacos for the coming years. This is even more important than the Euroleague title!
You have the talent, the beginnings …, you have everything. Please do it for me. Let's all go together! “
Text Editing: Stelios Eliodorou
