Young greek basketball talent

[yianis]

Hi All
This is my first post. (Well second if you count my mistakenly putting this it in the international basketball section)

A big congradulations first to the Greek national team and their silver.

My questions for those of you that have access to greek basketball games. (They dont show much in Australia unfortunately)
Who are the future stars of greek basketball?

Is the future of greek basketball as bright as the present?
Presently we have great depth with atleast ten players of exceptional talent.
Young players coming thru that i know of are Sofo, Sakota, Mavrokefalidis, Vasilopoulos and Zisis. Is there much more tallent coming thru than these five.
No doubt after the success of the national team Eurobasket 2005 and Mundobasket 2006 kids watching these games will start playing the sport.
Also im sure many of the present team are the result of the success of 1987.

But will there be a great lull in between this team and the next great team or is their alot of talent i dont know about coming thru?
Also any coments on the talent of the above five or any other players mentioned would be appreciated.
Thanks Yianis

[KokkinosVasilias]

Hi All
This is my first post. (Well second if you count my mistakenly putting this it in the international basketball section)

A big congradulations first to the Greek national team and their silver.

My questions for those of you that have access to greek basketball games. (They dont show much in Australia unfortunately)
Who are the future stars of greek basketball?

Is the future of greek basketball as bright as the present?
Presently we have great depth with atleast ten players of exceptional talent.
Young players coming thru that i know of are Sofo, Sakota, Mavrokefalidis, Vasilopoulos and Zisis. Is there much more tallent coming thru than these five.
No doubt after the success of the national team Eurobasket 2005 and Mundobasket 2006 kids watching these games will start playing the sport.
Also im sure many of the present team are the result of the success of 1987.

But will there be a great lull in between this team and the next great team or is their alot of talent i dont know about coming thru?
Also any coments on the talent of the above five or any other players mentioned would be appreciated.
Thanks Yianis

I really believe in Vasilopoulos' abilities and i think he will be a great player in a few years, he is very athletic, he is very fast and can play defence in the perimeter and with his high vertical jump he can take rebounds
we all know what Sofo can do,
Zisis is already a very good player
Mavrokefalidis will soon be good enough for the NT
Sakota will be the shooter of the NT that is needed

and we shouldnt forget Bourousis (Olympiakos), Kiritsis (Marousi), Printezis (Olympiakos), Vasiliadis (Malaga), Pelekanos (Panellinios)

[Nemesis 11 (aka Sabas 11)]

What ever happended to Tapoutos?

[KokkinosVasilias]

What ever happended to Tapoutos?

he never improved his skills... i guess he is one of those players talented young players that dont do much later on...

[GR8BBALL]

I copy my post from the other thread:

Some good prospects are also playng in the US right now like:

Ian Vouyoukas-Plays for St Louis University, born and raised in Greece, he's a senior and will have good chances in next year's draft if he continues to improve, power forward at 6-10...
http://slubillikens.cstv.com/sports/...kas_ian00.html

Kostas Koufos-He is big (7-1) and talented according to many reports he's just 18 years old and will play college ball for Ohio State U. He's very promising talent his parents are both Greek but I don't know if he'll choose to play for Greece or the US nt (U21 teams).


As for Tapoutos, he was one of my favorite players, hope he will evolve sometime, I think he should play abroad... Where is he playing now??

[EverGreen]

He's very promising talent his parents are both Greek but I don't know if he'll choose to play for Greece or the US nt (U21 teams).

Why would he want to do that?

[mktackabery]

you hooked me at young, greek, basketball, talent . . .

[rikhardur]

Blazers scouting Chrysikopoulos: http://thehoop.blogspot.com/2010/11/...ulos.html#more

[Alvertis4]

Blazers can go screw themselves... They show no respect to their overseas players. Chrysikopoulos should stay home are in the worse case go to Spain, Russia or Italy

[kukulas]

I think there might be more teams insterested in Chrysikopoulos except Blazers. He has good potential but he needs to work hard and in Greece thats very difficult for new players. So his team will probably try to offload him like they did with Papanikolaou. Thats cuz they know they cant work with him so first chance they get (U-18/19/20's championship). If he starts averaging points/rebounds/assists/steals like crazy he will sell like hot cakes.

He will be signing a new contract with Aris they say for 4 or 5 years and then they'll sell him in the first opportunity that appears. Its more difficult now though cuz Chrysikopoulos' team players are not up to level, even Olympiakos wont spend a 1 million euros now and so they will try to start a bidding game..

I wouldnt worry too much about this year. But from next year or season should i say he will be up for sale.

[rikhardur]

Kostas Papanikolaou to participate in 2011 NBA Draft.
http://thehoop.blogspot.com/2010/11/...cipate-in.html

[vaslover]

Kostas Papanikolaou to participate in 2011 NBA Draft.
http://thehoop.blogspot.com/2010/11/...cipate-in.html

Kostas is definitely very talented guy, but it,s not secret that the greeks playing in the NBA is still quite mediocre (Rentzias,Fotsis,Tsakalidis,Spanoulis, Koufos...). But in other hand, who knows, maybe Kostas will be the exception to the rule. At least i sincerely wish him to play major role in the NBA.

[christodoulou76]

Ioannis Papapetrou:
Will play at a top team in NCAA next year.
He is a tall guard.

[pohani komarac]

What's with Pappas? He was most talented player from Greek 90. born golden generation, but somehow disaperd from radar

[Victorious]

What's with Pappas? He was most talented player from Greek 90. born golden generation, but somehow disaperd from radar

He did not have enough playing time with Kolossos Rhodes (3d ranked team in Greece this year). Now he's playing for PAOK and does pretty well. Also gets a lot of playing time. His stats are similar to the stats of Sloukas at Aris last year. He's not out of the radar yet.

[kalashnikov]

He did not have enough playing time with Kolossos Rhodes (3d ranked team in Greece this year). Now he's playing for PAOK and does pretty well. Also gets a lot of playing time. His stats are similar to the stats of Sloukas at Aris last year. He's not out of the radar yet.

That's not entirely accurate. Pappas playing with Kolossos last year under loan from Bilbao. At the end of the season, his loan ended and went back to Spain, but Bilbao did not want to keep his high contract. The two sides didn't find an agreement for the contract resolution, so he was left on the sidelines until he moved to PAOK.
Now, after the end of the season in Greece for PAOK, there are discussions that he might go to Malaga to help them in the Spanish play-offs.

He remains a good player and did some excellent games with PAOK, despite his lack of match practice...

[Big Lebowski]

What about the Adetokubo brothers currently playing with Filathlitikos?
At the ASG they were pretty impressive and their stats in A2 are amazing. As I know they have never played with any under-something NTs because they didn't hold the Hellenic citizenship but actually they might have obtained it.
Can they handle the Greek future (much better than Hrysi Aygi)?