By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Sasha Djordjevic released a letter, as adapted by Basketball Sphere, in which he described the insight of his departure from Bayern, which, according to him, derived from the management’s ‘puzzling jealousy’.
The coach’s open letter reads:
“[…]Unfortunately, the chance of wrapping up this great season and making it even greater by winning the German BBL title was taken away from me last Wednesday. In the final meeting of the season, I was told by the team’s GM, that I was suspended from the head coach position and the reason was the ‘lack of communication with him’. The biggest reason we had such a successful season, so far, was, indeed, not having part of the management involved with the squad in everyday team routine. Such a strong cohesion between the team and the staff led to the highest club’s results, in spite of a puzzling jealousy from part of the management, that made them feel overshadowed and eventually couldn’t live with it.” […]
“Since the beginning of the season we felt a strong lack of support for the team and staff, by showing personal distance and negativity, often expressed unprofessionally to people outside the club. Such feeling and behavior escalated in a wrongful action of firing me and part of my coaching staff, instead of helping the team by signing one or two new players as agreed on, prior to the German Cup final, in order to make up for the hard injuries and fatigue of some of our starters.”