Pitino: I want to bring Panathinaikos to Final Four but it’s not easy we have a very low budget

Pitino talks about Ettore Messina and Panathinaikos goals

Panathinaikos head coach Rick Pitino spoke with La Gazzetta dello Sport about the goal of the Greens and his friend Ettore Messina.

Ettore Messina.

“I love him. We know each other since years and we have spent a lot of time together. He is one of the best minds in basketball world, not only in Europe. He is a great coach, a great man and I am happy he returned to EuroLeague. I never understood why he never had a chance to coach in the NBA. He speaks a perfect English. If I were an NBA official I would think about Messina for a coaching job”

Panathinaikos goals.

I want to bring Panathinaikos to EuroLeague playoffs. And Final Four. It is not easy because we have a very low budget and we fight against teams, Milano included, that can invest the double or three times of what we do”.

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