"All I can speak about is our campaign while I was at Barcelona. For 11 consecutive seasons I am leading my times to Euroleague's Play Offs. Since the day I started my career, I am always reaching at least the quarter finals of Euroleague and only once at 8.5 years with Barcelona I did not play at the final of a domestic competition. The second time was with the Greek Cup final of 2017-18 season.
At the same time, I am reaching at least the quarter finals of Euroleague. I don't want to speak about Barcelona's campaign after my departure. They released me, because they thought that I should do better. That's why I am here right now. According to my information, the club's budget is 7 to 10 million euros higher every season.
I have to repeat the same thing. One or two people from the administration believed that my team should have been better and this is the reason they sacked me. They thought that we could have been better than the best Real Madrid ever. I have nohing to say right now, but this is a fact. This is the life of a head coach, you stop winning for two seasons and means that you have to leave. It's a part of our jobs.
What I am trying to say, is that we were at the end of the road every time back then. We were reaching the finals and anything can happen at them. I can't predict the future, according to my experience there is nothing impossible in basketball. Still, I have to say that there are no chances of coaching Olympiacos BC in the future and is extremely difficult to return in Spain for Real Madrid, these are my feelings right now.
I will feel empty inside me if we do not reach the Euroleague's Final Four at 2018-19 season, all I want is when I finish here the fans to remember me as a hard-working, honest man with polite behavior. Some of them will love my work, some others will hate it, it is impossible to have everyone impressed with your basketball, but these three other things are important"said the 46-year-old head coach at his SDNA interview.
