Greece: Life without Janis

Another national team that comes to Mundobasket without a big star is Greece.

The "Helens" were left without a basketball player from Milwaukee Janisa Adetokunba, who skips this action due to back and knee problems.

The absence of Adetokunba is not the only problem the coach has faced Dimitris Itudis, since there will be no Fenerbahçe point guard Nika Kalates and the new vedettes of Panathinaikos Kostas Slukas (he stirred up passions last summer by joining hated rival Olympiakos), as well Dimitris Agravanis (also Panathinaikos), who left the team due to an argument with the coach.

It is the coach Itudis, the former club European champion with CSKA, who is the greatest strength of Greece. With this team, he will try to pay more attention to defense, and that will serve him well Vokap, Mitoglu, Papapetru, Papanicolaou i Papayanis.

Is there life without Janis? Of course there is, but without him Greece is not among the five candidates for a high ranking. Although, even with Janis, the Greeks did not manage to get on the podium - neither at the European Championship, nor at the World Championship.

The quarterfinals may be within reach, but after the group with the USA, New Zealand and Jordan, the "Helens" in the second phase expect duels with selections from group D where Lithuania, Montenegro, Mexico and Egypt.