The victory of the Greek national team in 2006 against the undefeated US national team was mentioned on the show “7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony“, by Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard, who in a related discussion looked back at the greatest victory of the “official favorite” and remembered Sofoklis Schortsianitis who “changed the game and the way pick n rolls are played in the NBA“, although he never played in the world’s top basketball league.

The semi-final of the Mundobasket against the Dream Team ends and the scoreboard reads 101-95 in favor of the Greek national team, with the world still unable to realize what an epic their eyes have witnessed.

With Panagiotis Giannakis as coach, Greece advances to the final and is on the verge of its greatest success, however – in the final – the Spaniards do not let us rejoice as much as we would like.

However, no one (who saw) will forget that course. The same applies to the protagonists on the other side, with Anthony and Howard giving incredible “praise” to both Sophocles Shchortsianitis (or Baby Shaq, a nickname he had acquired for his many similarities to Shaquille O’Neal) and to our National Team, for which they emphasized that he… defeated them with a system.

Of course, it is not exactly like that regarding the second part, with perhaps only Kobe Bryant understanding the greatness of players like Vassilis Spanoulis and Dimitris Diamantidis, whom he studied, having even said of the former – when they were amazed by his… study – that “he will be the one to kill the US national team”.

That team, with the best roster our country has ever seen, consisted of Vassilis Spanoulis, Dimitris Diamantidis, Thodoris Papaloukas, Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Michalis Kakiouzis, Antonis Fotsis, Lazaros Papadopoulos, Dimos Ntikoudis, Nikos Zisi, Kostas Tsartsaris, Nikos Hatzivrettas and Panagiotis Vassilopoulos.