Greece beat Israel 76-66 in opening game.
Spanoulis leading scorer of game with 19 points.
Greece picks up where it started with 3-0 in preliminary and Spanoulis continues to be leading scorer in every game.
Spurs must be taking note of this, not just Scola dominating so far.
Last edited by Kill_Bill_Pana; 09-03-2007 at 05:46 PM.
Spanoulis had serious issues adjusting to life in the USA. He even went on the record saying he could not live there any longer, and that he wouldn't change his mind even if he was offered the starting PG job on the Spurs. He was never a possibility, so no point fretting over this.
He tell me he VERY gets angry over this.
If V-Span is "very mad" and "very angry" about that, he is really too sensitive.
The poor editing job is enough to create disdain and gnashing of teeth.
WGAF forum. Vasilinous Spandexicus is not a Spur, nor will he probably ever be.
Hedo/Rasho/Jack/Devin forum
I suppose we will be seeing "Billy" wearing green in San Antonio in one month from tomorrow.
tmac of greece? hahahahah wtf
Why put this thread here? It says "clutchfans.net" at the bottom, go and moan there!
From what I've read of the way the Rockets treated him, the banner is wrong and unfair, but it's not Spurstalk business, surely!?
Last edited by RuffnReadyOzStyle; 09-12-2007 at 10:29 AM.
I'd be mad too.
Agreed - get over it and move on. You shouldn't really care at all. The NBA isn't a concern for you now and probably never will be. If you ever come over I'll believe it when I see it.
If V-Span is "very mad" and "very angry" about that, he is really too sensitive.
If he gets angry about that, then he is a flaming wussbag, and never would have made it in the NBA, since Hedo Turkoglu could have fired a little conquest smack at him and left him blubbering on the floor.
i was kinda cool with the idea of vspan coming to the spurs then i heard he wanted no part of the nba, and then i heard he was coming back in a yr or so and possibly to the spurs, but with all this talk about him having his panties in a wad over everything he seems to come off as a pussy to me and we dont need no pussies on our bad boy squad we got going right now.
im sorry but vspan is really starting to get under my skin. i dont care for childish whining and it seems as though thats all vspan does is and whine. at this point id have to say stay in europe and cry all you want over there cause you def dont belong in the big boys league.
"Millionaire angered by picture on internets. Nation mourns."
That about sums it up.
the dudes not on our team so who gives a (ex. scola). end of story!
there was a rumor that he had said (while voicing his displeasure to jvg for being relegated to rox bench-warmer) that this is crap, I am Tmac in Greece or some shiit like that. He later denied saying that. He may not have said it, but they dog him for it.
wgaf
For a guy who didn't want to play for a "championship" team...yeah I ' ll laughing my ass off!!!
He tell me he VERY gets angry over this.
Just wait 11 & 13 October, not for the Greek TMac (SVGimagination!...), but for a guy he realy like to play basketball
After that, let's write
http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_23334.shtml
Spurs Report By Bill Ingram
In a recent article, ESPN's Chris Sheridan (in Madrid covering the European Finals) wrote the following:
Memo to R.C. Buford in San Antonio: You are going to rue the day you decided to allow Vassilis Spanoulis to leave the NBA (after you acquired him earlier this summer from Houston for Jackie Butler and the rights to Luis Scola) and return to Panathinaikos in Greece.
This on the heels of a 24-point five-assist game from Spanoulis, who hit 10 of his 14 field goal attempts in a hard loss to Madrid.
Well, let's back up a second and see if R.C. Buford will really find time to rue a minor personnel move in between dusting and polishing his championship trophies.
First of all, this wasn't Buford's call. To completely understand why Vassilis Spanoulis is back in Greece after spurning the NBA we have to jump back to this time last season, when some promises were made . . .and consequently broken.
The Houston Rockets promised Spanoulis quality playing time if he came over to the NBA. Unfortunately, promises made by the front office don't always translate to the bench. According to Spanoulis, former Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy told him flat out that the decision to bring him in was against his better judgment and that he wasn't planning on playing him. Van Gundy then outfitted Spanoulis with a pair of specially made Rockets uniform shorts that came complete with a built-in chair sticking out of the rear.
As each passing game saw Van Gundy's promise kept, Spanoulis got madder and madder. He kept thinking about what he had left behind to join the NBA. He thought about the superstar status he enjoyed (and earned), he thought about the playing time he garnered, the clutch shots that were put into his hands, and how he came through time and again for his Greek team. By the time the season ended, Spanoulis was finished. He packed up his apartment and returned to Greece the day after the Rockets were eliminated from the playoffs, vowing never to return to the NBA.
A new head coach was brought in by a new general manager in Houston, yet the situation didn't even begin to resolve itself. Daryl Morey said over and over again he planned to have Spanoulis in camp; Rick Adelman said he planned to play Spanoulis as one of his rotation guards. Yet as the team brought in more and more bodies at the point position, it became clear Spanoulis was not really in the plan. By the time the Rockets traded him to the San Antonio Spurs for Luis Scola and Jackie Butler it was clear Spanoulis wasn't going to play. It's even been rumored that the Spurs already had a buy-out arranged when they made the deal.
What the Spurs wanted was to cut their losses on Scola and lock up as much as $13 million in salary cap and luxury tax savings. Keeping Spanoulis was never an option. Jeff Van Gundy burned that bridge long before it got close to "spann-ing" the San Antonio River.
R.C. Buford is unlikely to lose much sleep over the loss of Spanoulis, no matter how well the brilliant guard plays for his Greek team. There was nothing he could have done to convince Spanoulis to come back to the NBA. For Buford and the Spurs it was a purely financial decision.
Last edited by Kill_Bill_Pana; 09-17-2007 at 09:39 PM.
hoopsworld sucks
NBA pussies/mama's boy forum
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/olybb/...EuroSemifinals
By Chris Sheridan
Memo to R.C. Buford in San Antonio: You are going to rue the day you decided to allow Vassilis Spanoulis to leave the NBA (after you acquired him earlier this summer from Houston for Jackie Butler and the rights to Luis Scola) and return to Panathinaikos in Greece.
Spanoulis was a force for Greece on Saturday in its semifinal match against Spain, scoring 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting with five assists to carry his team's offense on a day when Theo Papaloukas was a nonfactor and Dimitrios Diamantidis had his worst game of the tournament.
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