Giannis Is Getting Team Greece Ready For EuroBasket By Slapping The Absolute Shit Out Of His Own Teammate

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With EuroBasket due to start in the next few weeks, tensions are getting high. With the best players in the world participating, it's set up to be a fantastic tournament that should be filled with high level basketball. Who doesn't love that? Especially at this time of the calendar when more sports are desperately needed. 

As a result, this is right around the time we're seeing teams lock in. There are warm-up games taking place as we speak, and the usual suspects are all looking as dominant as ever, whether that's Jokic or Luka or Neemias Queta (let me cope). If you were maybe curious about how someone like Giannis might be locking in as he prepares to backpack his entire team/country in this tournament, let's have a look

First question. How is that dude still alive? Who survives that type of force from Giannis? The more I think about it, it almost makes me feel even better about Greece's chances in this tournament knowing that their roster is filled with players who can take that level of contact. At the same time there's probably a 0.0% chance that dude doesn't have a severe concussion so that's probably not great.

The next question is what could have possibly led to that type of reaction? I mean, Giannis slapped the shit out of that guy! He didn't look all that pissed, so was this just a case where he may have forgotten his own strength? One of those you don't realize how hard you actually make contact or something? Eh, that doesn't feel quite right. Feels more like he knew he was smacking the shit out of the back of that dude's head so it's anyone's guess as to why.

I don't mind Giannis whipping his teammates into shape as they prepare for EuroBasket as it'll be an uphill climb for them as a team, but this isn't exacty what I had in mind. They haven't medaled in this tournament since 2009 (Bronze), so perhaps this is Giannis' plan to get them over the hump. Play out of fear that if you aren't locked in Giannis will beat your ass. That would get me to play pretty hard, I would think. I wouldn't exactly want to piss this guy off

so time will tell how effective this approach from Giannis will be. Maybe it works and Greece goes on a run which would be pretty fun to see. All I know is August 27th can't get here soon enough. I'm ready for the chaos.