Toliopoulos: “Spanoulis is my idol” – Basketball – Greece – Aris
Perhaps the greatest appearance of his career was made by Vassilis Toliopoulos in the game against Peristeri bwin, in which he scored 38 points. The Mars ace pointed out that he was so pleased he couldn’t put his side’s win together and added:
“There is nothing he feels from the beginning. I didn’t think I would put so many. I knew I was capable of putting up 20-25 points. Of course, I’m sad that I couldn’t combine such a good performance with a win. It was an intense game. In the third quarter I found a rhythm and felt really good. I didn’t expect that something like this would never happen.”
Then the Greek ace spoke about the influence that Vassilis Spanoulis has on his game, admitting that… “Vassilis has been the idol since he was young. I admired him and was in awe of him. I was happy such appearance on the same floor with him. He told me congratulations and nothing else” while when asked if he was responsible for his second consecutive big game, he said: “It motivates me that I have played consecutively good games. That’s all I want to continue like this, to help my team get back to winning ways.”
Finally, he referred to strong criticism that “I had heard that I was weak, that I did not play defense and that I only thought about scoring goals. I wanted to come to Aris, a team that is based on defense, to show that I have worked and that I can do both things well and that I can raise a level”, he concluded in his statements to ERT.
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