These are the reasons that led to Itoudis and Fenerbahce’s divorce

The untimely divorce of Fenerbahce and Dimitris Itoudis rocked European waters at 12pm on Wednesday (13/12) and everyone began to wonder what went wrong and why this development happened at this time. Alexandros Trigas spoke in Show Must Go On about the reasons that brought the Greek technician to the exit door of the Turkish club.

“Now and not two weeks ago, because then Fenerbahçe beat Real Madrid and got a life extension. Fener lost two games in a row. If I’m not mistaken, they have suffered six defeats in the last seven games. Except for the overtime win against Real Madrid, they had a long losing streak.

Then came the loss to Efes 81-80, in a game in which Efes again competed with a lot of failures and essentially played with two guards, Larkin and Thompson, and with alchemies at the remaining positions. This defeat was Dimitris Itoudis’ swan song for Fenerbahçe’s technical leadership. What we hear from Istanbul is that the announcement is expected today or tomorrow. Formalization of the divorce can take place within a day.

When it comes to the succession situation, the name of Sarunas Jasikevicius, who was released from Barcelona in the summer, is louder than all others. It was heard strongly for 2-3 European banks at the time, such as Ephesus and Monaco. Monaco decided to keep Saša Obradović due to qualification for the Final Four.

Jasikevicius seems to be one click ahead of the others at the moment. Fener had done preparatory work in the previous period. In fact, the team’s assistant general manager had carried out some procedures to prepare them. From the moment the management made the decision that there had to be a change of coach, they, as we say, pulled the trigger and Fenerbahçe is looking for the next one.

The truth is that a month ago we expected Efes to change coach. And then we talked about Saras. They were the first of the so-called Final Four contenders to speak out strongly for change. He supported Erdem Can, who is a great asset to Turkish basketball. He has turned the corner and will now try to keep the team together for the next period, so that from January 15th most of them will be back so that Efes can launch its final counterattack for the playoffs and the Final Four.

Among the Euroleague coaches, TJ Parker, who was at Villerban, is still available, but I don’t think Fener, Sergio Scariolo and Andrea Trinchieri will get along with him. detailed.