Change in the windows of FIBA, on November 11 Greece with Latvia, Olympiacos hopes players to compete

FIBA’s first move towards EuroLeague Basketball has just been made. The world governing body has shortened the November window schedule for the 2023 World Cup and is now allowing some EuroLeague teams to send players to their national teams.

In particular, FIBA ​​decided to change the dates of the November qualifiers and so they were changed to 11/10-11/11. and 13.-14.11. all postponed to November 11 (Friday) and November 14 (Monday). Overall, he packed all the games into two appointments and showed flexibility.

This particular issue directly affects the men’s national team. This is because the crucial home game against Latvia (to be played in Heraklion) was originally scheduled for November 10 (Thursday) and postponed to November 11 (Friday), while the second (away against Belgium) was on November has been moved from 13th (Sunday) to 14th November (Monday).

In this way, the players of Olympiakos (who host Partizan on 10 November) will now have the opportunity to strengthen Greece in both games. Panathinaikos host Baskonia on November 11, which means their own players can only join the national team in the second game. With the previous schedule of national team games from 10th to 14th November, the Olympiakos players were not able to strengthen the men’s national team.

Nonetheless, this particular move by FIBA ​​demonstrates their intent to build a communication bridge to EuroLeague Basketball with actions rather than words so that the schedule is not overloaded. It remains to be seen how EuroLeague Basketball will now react to this and whether they themselves will show similar intentions and possibly change some dates in their own games to give all players space to strengthen their national teams. .