By Aris Barkas/ barkas@eurohoops.net
Eurohoops mailbox included an unusual and more than interesting package. Send by Dimitris Giannakopoulos, it contained a letter signed by him, a statistics reports about the refereeing decisions in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and a DVD titled “Wrong decisions of the EuroLeague’s referees 2017-18”.
According to Giannakopoulos, those are the evidences which prove that Olympiacos and Fenerbahce Dogus are being favored by EuroLeague referees.
As Giannakopoulos writes: “Olympiacos Piraeus and Fenerbahce are, beyond doubt, the best two defensive teams in the EuroLeague competition. However, they play along the fine line between what is and what is not considered a foul, with the help of the referees, and find their teams receiving very few fouls in most games”.
According to the letter: “This crisis that is taking place is the biggest that basketball has ever faced and sport’s community has to act in a consistent and structured way in order to replace the transparency of the competition. One of the major pillar of the success of basketball is the media coverage of the game. By keeping this situation in silent mode, the only winner is not the sport, but certain financial lobbies”.
Here’s the full letter signed by Dimitris Giannakopoulos.
And here’s a part of the conclusions of the statistics report which imply that the schedule of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague also favors Real Madrid, which didn’t have to travel outside Spain during the double-games weeks.
