Hi everybody!

First of all, I would like to wish all the best to all the competitors in Euroleague. It's a little bitter for me that I'll be out for a little while more due to my knee injury. I'm luckier than my teammate Omer Asik, who was also injured during national-team duty and will be out until the spring. Fortunately, Semih Erden and I are both expected to join our team in a few weeks.

We are on the edge of a new beginning with the players who left and the ones joined us. But if you ask me the difference between the last season and this season, I can only say that the difference is serious injuries, nothing else. We lost Willie Solomon and Tarence Kinsey to the NBA, but we are lucky that their replacements are as quality as they were. I wish Willie and Tarence all the best in their NBA journey.

Marques Green is a kind of perfect team player who is always trying to find the best timing and position for a pass to his teammates to score. This is a good thing for a team which is based on the team play. We have Devin Smith, who is also a great player eligible to play the role for the team effort. He is also very kind and a perfect example of a strong character, which helps the other teammates in any situation. Theres nothing I can say about Gordan Giricek that others have not: he is a kind of elite star, which all teams need. I'm sure he will help us a lot. So generally, if I compare the last season's team...