Dimitris Itudis was the European champion with CSKA, he has one of the biggest contracts among coaches on the Old Continent, but he did not make a name for himself as the coach of Greece.
That's why today's news is not surprising - the Basketball Association of Greece has officially announced that it has mutually terminated the contract with Itudis.
The overcrowding of Fenerbahçe's schedule in the coming season and the potential late finish of the Turkish championship, which could coincide with the Olympic Games qualifiers, were cited as the main reason for the parting.
It seems that this is just an excuse, because the odyssey of the coach who learned the trade as an assistant to Željko Obradović did not bring the expected results.
Last year, he had the strongest team at Eurobasket 2022 and was eliminated in the quarterfinals with Janis Adetokunba and Tyler Dorsey, while this year, a significantly weakened team took only 15th place at the World Cup.
It will remain recorded that in the last match on the bench, Helena suffered a defeat against Montenegro.
Greece won its last medal 14 years ago, when it won bronze at the European Championships in Poland in 2009.
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