Kostas Sloukas

Kostas Sloukas Κώστας Σλούκας
Player information
Full name	Konstantinos Sloukas
birthday	January 15, 1990
place of birth	Thermi , Greece
size	190 cm
position	Combo Guard
Club information
society	Fenerbahçe Istanbul
league	TBL
Jersey number	16
Clubs as active
2008–2015 Olympiacos Piraeus → 2010–2011 Aris Saloniki since 2015 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 0
National team 1
Since 02011	Greece	61
1 As of September 4, 2015

Konstantinos "Kostas" Sloukas ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Σλούκας , born January 15, 1990 in Thermi ) is a Greek basketball player who is 1.90 m tall and can be used in the positions of point guard or shooting guard .

Career

Sloukas began his professional career in 2008 at Olympiacos Piraeus . In order to gain more gaming experience, he was loaned to Aris Saloniki for the 2010/11 season. In Thessaloniki , the young guard knew how to convince and, on his return, developed into one of the leading players in the "Red White". Together with his national team colleagues Vangelis Mantzaris , Kostas Papanikolaou and others, he won his first national championship in 2011/12 and in the same year also the Euroleague , the most valuable competition for club teams in European basketball. The team from Piraeus defended this title in the following year. In the final in London , the defending champion from Greece defeated the Spanish record champions Real Madrid with 100: 88 points.

For the 2014/15 season, Sloukas won his second national championship title with Piraeus and the final of the Euroleague was repeated again in 2013 between Real Madrid and Olympiacos. The Spanish won the final in Madrid in front of their home crowd with 78:59 points. After the end of the season, the Guard announced his move to Fenerbahçe Istanbul .

Due to injury, Sloukas paused several games for Fenerbahçe in the 2015/16 season. In the Euroleague, he played all the games in the preliminary round, but was only used in eight out of a possible fourteen games in the second round. With 17 points, the Guard and Bogdan Bogdanović , who also scored 17 points, secured their first victory in the quarter-finals against Real Madrid, which they defeated on April 12, 2016 with 75:69 points. After another two wins, the team reached the final Final Four tournament in Berlin . So Sloukas took part in the final round of the Euroleague four times in the last five years. In Berlin, the club then met Laboral Kutxa in the second semi-final . Fenerbahçe dominated the Spaniards at the beginning of the game, but brought their center Giannis Bourousis , Laboral back into the game and shortly before the end of the game they also took the lead. A few seconds before the end of the game it was Kostas Sloukas who prevented his team from being eliminated when he equalized 72:72 and thus led the game into extra time, in which Fenerbahçe had won the game with 88:77 points. Sloukas got 13 points in this game and was one of five players on the Turkish team's side who had finished the game with a double-digit point yield. In the final, Fenerbahçe met CSKA Moscow, trained by Dimitris Itoudis . Although Sloukas put his team in the lead shortly before the end of the game with two converted free throws, Moscow saved the game in extra time, in which the Fenerbahçe lost the game by 96-101 points. Sloukas contributed ten points to this game. In the Turkish league, the guard secured the triple with Fenerbahçe consisting of championship , trophy and presidential cup .

In the restructuring EuroLeague season 2016/17 , Sloukas was still one of the key performers of his team. During the group stage, he contributed 24 points, 7 assists and against Anadolu Efes Istanbul , 21 points and 4 assists, among other victories against domestic Mitliga rivals Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul . His path also led him back to the Peace and Friendship Stadium on December 29, 2016 . He left this as the Greek champion in the summer of 2015 in favor of Fenerbahçes. Together with Pero Antić , the Guard was honored when he returned to Piraeus for many years of service to his former club. In the following clash, the Turkish selection was defeated by its Greek hosts with 62:71 points. For Fenerbahçe this meant the sixth loss in their fifteenth game. The Turkish champions finished their first half of the season in sixth place. So far, Sloukas had 11.9 points and 5.1 assists per game. In the Turkish league, the Guard was one of the nominees for the All Star Games held on January 15, 2017, which Team Asia won with 140: 135 points against Team Europe. With a double-double consisting of 10 points and 10 assists, Sloukas made his contribution to victory. The season ended by defending the Turkish championship and winning the Euroleague. It was also called the Euroleague final for the 2017/18 season . This time, however, Fenerbahçe had to give up challenger Real Madrid with 80:85 points. After all, the Turkish championship could be defended with a 4-1 game series against Tofaş .

successes

ULEB Euroleague : 2012, 2013, 2017 Intercontinental Cup : 2013 Greek champion : 2012, 2015 Greek Cup Winner : 2010 Turkish champion : 2016, 2017, 2018 Turkish Cup Winner : 2016, 2019 Turkish Presidential Cup: 2016, 2017 Turkish League All-Star: 2017

U18 European Champion: 2008 U18 Vice European Champion: 2007 U19 Vice World Champion: 2009 U20 European Champion: 2009 U20 Vice European Champion: 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Size information on the official website of the association
2. ↑ Kostas Slouka's best game for Fenerbahce (Greek) ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ CSKA back on the throne (Greek) ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Slouka's distinction (Greek)
5. ↑ Olympiakos holds up and defeats Fenerbahçe (Greek) ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Euroleague: End of the first half of the season (Greek) ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Sloukas nominated for the Turkish All Star Game (Greek)
8. ↑ All Star Game Report (Greek)
9. ↑ Turkish master Fenerbahçe (Greek)

Web links

• Kostas Sloukas - Statistics ULEB (English)
• Kostas Sloukas - Player profile FIBA (English)
• Kostas Sloukas - player profile ESAKE (Greek)
• Kostas Sloukas - player profile EOK (Greek)