Kostas Πιλαφίδης: “When I met derrick rose was playing football and was good”

The basketball coach, Kostas Πιλαδίφης and first coach of the…
Dimitris Diamantidis in Kastoria, spoke to the SPORTS FM and on the show “Counterstrike” with the Claus Berge and Sava Λιβάνιο for:
-the first encounter with Dimitris Diamantidis in Kastoria: “I was in the street, and he in mine. These are random events. Then in Kastoria, he began to deal with the basketball. I met a kid, modest, loyal in what he did and loved by his teammates. When I met him, he played football on which was good and had very good contact with the ball”.
-the characteristics that he saw in the face of the leader of Panathinaikos: “The most basic element of his character that I saw, it was the insight of and that was quiet as a man. I met a kid a believer who never stopped trying. It had the basic characteristics for the age that was, so that there is the mood to deal. An item that shows the power that he had. At some point he had gone into the echelon of teenagers and it wasn’t on the same level with the rest of the children, however, did not put it down, and then he did things and miracles”.
-the rumor that he was rejected PAOK: “I rejected him the game had been tested in practice. If you see a coach a child in a workout between dozens of kids, can’t make easy conclusions. I had him three years and could have a different picture in terms of the character, the commitment and the way of the game”.
-the beginning of Hercules: “so it was a great breakthrough for the Hercules with Dragan Σάκοτα the group, and with several big players. The Ντίκινς was the first of the great teacher-partner. He had enough of Byron(p.p. Ντίκινς)”.
-if you thought the willie Mays would have followed this course: “Because I don’t like the big words, me, my expectation for Dimitris has been overtaken by the progress made. Had a lot of great mental qualifications and then went out and talent. I changed something in the style of. He was loved by all, he was a good teammate, and consistent and remains so until today. If I’m happy for anything, it is that pushed him towards this sport”.
-if it’s the right choice to stop this year, the basketball: “If you and I had a great contact and relationship with him on a level that at least the influence, I’d been approached by the NBA about the case. We don’t get from the decisions he has taken and which proved to be correct, to question whether doing it right or not. A man, who from an early age he took right decisions, he was loyal to what he decided and turned out to be correct in their entirety, i.e., all the things he has done and where it has reached. So I say again that, in general, the decisions he took in the path of the space was correct, therefore, to decide to stop, I don’t believe that he has done wrong. Done in a series of so many right decisions, this is wrong?”.
– … an eagerness that showed in the workout: “it Ended in Kastoria the workout and was leaving to go to the school yard, where he’s on his own to train. When I found out I sent my colleagues to the hunt and to pick him up because I didn’t want to risk the concrete courts. When he was a teammate with the Χατζηβρέττα, which had and he the same passion, off the field, Christmas, and new year’s eves brought, and they were Fragrant, they found a field and took the keys from the guards in order to play”.
-if it can be compared with one of the top Greek basketball players: “it Is very difficult. We must honor the great based on what you were offered, you may need to get out of the who’s on first and second. To let anyone who was consistent and offered. Let them be at the top without looking who is the best. Everyone has value and offer”.