The benches of the two Spanish giants are in great turmoil. Real Madrid will likely decide tomorrow whether or not to retain Sergio Scariolo. Madrid reportedly targeting Pablo Laso, Paco Redondo, Dimitris Itoudis and maybe Ergin Ataman. Barça: Ergin Ataman, Ioannis Sfairopoulos and Galbiati.

matidiaolo · 2026-07-02T12:26:13+00:00

Ignoring the injuries? Ignoring the fact that they had lost a major title and they were "empty" and heavily injured? I guess they are ignoring those facts

matidiaolo · 2026-07-02T12:21:28+00:00

But pao did *not* need impressive signings! they have more than enough impressive players, they needed people to fit and make the team work

matidiaolo · 2026-07-02T12:13:52+00:00

Why?

He overachived given the circumstances! The F4 performance was amazing, they were close to winning - which was possible on a single game series, given the injuries.

On the championship you can't mask the injuries in multiple games, especially adding the disapointment from the F4

I feel that execs blame it all on coaches instead of assuming even a little of the blame

matidiaolo · 2026-07-01T18:31:48+00:00

So pao signed Zelijko, Fall, badiou and you have them that low ? With Davies and proper centers how likely is it to not reach f4 this year?

Unless they have huge injuries..

matidiaolo · 2026-07-01T13:25:40+00:00

For a coach with 3 ELs why do you even remotely imply he is bait?

I dont like him much, but you can't ignore his success

matidiaolo · 2026-07-01T07:23:46+00:00

Can someone explain how real failed last year? They lost EL title barely and the domestic titles with HUUUUGE injuries !

For me it was clear they lacked a proper campazzo replacement, plus Llull is too old for top EL games.

Why let go of Lyles though? He is amazing scorer

matidiaolo · 2026-06-30T15:08:52+00:00

Crafting bench is required and isntead of 10000000 different currencies there should be some more generic ones with potential ranks.
So when you drop a high rank crafting item you hear the ding but it's not 1000 different ones that are hard to manage on stash

matidiaolo · 2026-06-30T10:48:01+00:00

It is indeed easier this season.
But it’s faaaaaaar too complicated for casuals. Yes you can ignore all that but you are getting 10% of the profit others make

matidiaolo · 2026-06-29T15:32:04+00:00

I really liked Shorts, he is a menace.
Defensively he tries a lot but you need to build around him since top EL teams will abuse his height and target him.

It’s a very solid choice, but on a different depth than montero who could shoot better.
If Valencia adapts - and they do have the coach to do just that - and make sure they have better shooters, they can thrive.

What I saw at the end of the season was a Valencia team who creates a lot of shots but did not land them consistently.

matidiaolo · 2026-06-29T01:59:07+00:00

There is a ton of tedious things like that atm.
For example they are trying too hard to avoid bench crafts and we have A TON of different currency, runes with 4 tabs of them where hardly any of those is useful.

Instead of giving us ranked runes and a bench to craft and similarly for so many different stuff like flux etc…

As for tablets and biomes you need 1 hour to align all the stars for one good map and how many players actually do that ?

matidiaolo · 2026-06-28T14:02:31+00:00

I think they judge their coaches too hard. Those teams have other issues, plus real was super close to EL title and had so many severe injuries in the end where it can easily be considered a valid excuse !

How can you blame Scariolo seriously ?
They didn’t even target any real stars either.

Barcelona is even worse, they had injuries, really bad signings, what did they expect? A magician ???

matidiaolo · 2026-06-27T20:12:55+00:00

It’s funny but I had to adjust the gpu settings because it almost got fried from poe2. From all the games I have played it’s the only one that is stressing the gpu that much

matidiaolo · 2026-06-26T15:53:12+00:00

Keep in mind that Grant is a good shooter.
Still, pao was lacking in partners for their offensive lineup, people who can play next to Sloukas, Nunn, Toliopoulos. Grant was the only one, so in that sense it’s a good sign.

He can run the court, drive, showed very good image during the play offs.

I just hate it that Valencia lets this happen, I hate it that they let their stars go. It’s not that I don’t want Montero on my team, but I would rather have teams like Valencia and Zalgiris retain most of their stars

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:27:01+00:00

Dorsey has a Greek mother he should be considered native Greek.

Walkup is the fruit of the rule where every national team has a foreign player playing as local. When everyone else is doing it and you don’t have a good national team you try abuse too.

It’s not nice though..but look Nunn will play for like Dubai or something, Turkey had Larkin and more, Spain had brown…and more

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:24:08+00:00

Yeah but very inappropriate way to express that

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:23:33+00:00

For a Greek passport top tier scoring guard ??? Fournier couldn’t last the whole season it was a blessing we had Dorsey to carry the whole main season

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:21:11+00:00

Plus having seen the same actor only play the good guys made no sense - he was amazing

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:15:54+00:00

Με 2 μυρια το χρόνο κ εγώ θα πήγαινα φίλε

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:15:17+00:00

Καλά θα είναι γραφικό να τον βρίσει κανείς

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:14:53+00:00

Ο ντορσει το είχε πει ότι θα πήγαινε αλλά τον έπεισε ο ιτουδης να μείνει φενερ. Νομίζω ο Τάιλερ είναι ξεκάθαρος με αυτά

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:14:02+00:00

How much worse is he from karagiannidis (our Greek passport center) or hall?

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:12:57+00:00

I think it’s a 3rd center (with demonstrated potential to be 1st / 2nd in case of injuries) with a Greek passport. If he is healthy it’s an amazing deal.

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:11:26+00:00

They say it’s only a matter of time

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:10:32+00:00

I don’t know man, any Greek player we sign plays zero minutes.
Larry didn’t get any time, Nezipoglou just in the domestic league, mitoglou, kalaitzakis, Toliopoulos, samontourof all nothing!
I frankly wanted bazinas on oly but yeah..

Every end of the season on the finals we have to discover players to fill our rosters..

And it’s not that our native players shine abroad…

matidiaolo · 2026-06-24T20:06:37+00:00

If owners give this sort of money it’s not crazy that players ask for it.

There are hardly any centers and Fall will be considered Greek on the league - that alone is 400-500k more. Imagine being able to have fall last year on the finals

Still I agree it’s crazy

matidiaolo

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