By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
It’s not news that Sergio Scariolo has left an impact on the global basketball landscape, which means that whenever the 62-year-old head coach speaks, there must be some insightful content to hear.
Talking to Meridian Sport during a visit to Belgrade, the current Spanish national team’s head coach spoke about the future of the EuroLeague. “With the existing number of teams, it gets a bit tight. There are probably more teams or more cities that could add value to the system and the competition. We are at a turning point at this point”, he said.
With potentially some teams leaving the competition but keeping their value on a high level, there will be disappointment. “It’s painful, because there will be teams that probably won’t play in the Euroleague, and they deserve it. Surely someone will be disappointed. It’s a negative side that you have to accept objectively, but subjectively it will hurt some clubs”, Sergio Scariolo added.
Praising geniuses like Milos Teodosic and Zeljko Obradovic
During his trip to Belgrade, the multiple-time gold medalist took time to share some moments with Lorenzo Brown and Juancho Hernangomez, who faced each other in the Aleksandar Nikolic Hall for Maccabi Tel Aviv-Panathinaikos, and Milos Teodosic. “We haven’t met since last summer, and I always have a great time with him. “, he commented on his former Virtus Bologna mastermind point guard.
Talking about the current Crvena Zvezda’s leader, he praised him. “Great basketball mind and a good person you want on the team. His sporting values are strong, he knows how to be part of a team, and he knows what it takes to win. He can be very, very loyal to the mission, the project, and the team. I can hardly think of a player with his capacity to predict what is happening on the field, to hand out assists that essentially nobody saw, and to understand the game the way he does. But that’s Milos [Teodosic]: he’s a basketball genius”, Sergio Scariolo said.
Moreover, he also touched on Zeljko Obradovic. “He’s a man who improves every year. Every year he is up to date with what the competition requires, with basketball trends. He’s one of those guys who dictates where basketball is going to go. And he’s more flexible than some might believe. Living legend, he still loves the game and works on basketball. And his team always offers a feeling of something above, something greater than the individual qualities of the players. That identity, the way they show which way they want to go, what they want to do”, he finally added about the Serbian legend.
PHOTO CREDIT: Virtus Segafredo Bologna
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