Georgios Bartzokas
Olympiacos | |
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Position | Head coach |
League | Greek Basket League EuroLeague |
Personal information | |
Born | Athens, Greece | June 11, 1965
Listed height | 6 ft 6.75 in (2.00 m) |
Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
Career information | |
NBA draft | 1987: undrafted |
Playing career | 1981–1992 |
Position | Power forward |
Coaching career | 2003–present |
Career history | |
As player: | |
1981–1992 | Maroussi |
As coach: | |
2000–2006 | Maroussi (assistant) |
2006–2009 | Olympia Larissa |
2009–2010 | Maroussi |
2010–2012 | Panionios |
2012–2014 | Olympiacos |
2015–2016 | Lokomotiv Kuban |
2016–2017 | FC Barcelona |
2017–2019 | Khimki |
2020–present | Olympiacos |
Career highlights and awards | |
As head coach:
As assistant coach:
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Georgios Bartzokas (alternate spellings: Giorgos, George, Mpartzokas) (Greek: Γιώργος Μπαρτζώκας, born June 11, 1965) is a Greek former professional basketball player and current head coach for Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League (GBL) and the EuroLeague.
Playing career
[edit]Bartzokas played professional basketball for Maroussi club, before some serious knee injuries (torn right knee ACL, and later torn left knee ACL) ended his career at age 27.
Coaching career
[edit]Bartzokas began working as a basketball coach at the age of 22, while he was still also playing club basketball. He was the assistant coach of Panagiotis Giannakis for several years in Maroussi. In 2006, he signed on as the head coach of Olympia Larissa. That same year with Olympia, he managed to reach the playoffs of the Greek Basket League for the first time in the club's history. The team finished in 7th place, and repeated their playoffs qualification the next year, during the Greek Basket League 2007–08 season.
In 2009, Bartzokas became the head coach of Maroussi.[1] In 2010, he was named the Greek League Best Coach.[2] He became the head coach of Panionios in 2010.
Bartzokas became the head coach of the Greek EuroLeague club Olympiacos, in June 2012.[3] With Olympiacos, he won the 2012–13 season championship of the EuroLeague, becoming the first Greek coach in history to win this title.[4] He was also named the EuroLeague Coach of the Year in 2013.[5] He also won the 2013 FIBA Intercontinental Cup with Olympiacos.
On July 5, 2015, Bartzokas signed a 2-year deal with PBC Lokomotiv Kuban of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague.[6] In the EuroLeague, he coached the team to a first-ever Final Four appearance, after beating FC Barcelona 3–2 in the EuroLeague Playoffs.[7]
On July 8, 2016, he signed a three-year contract with the Spanish team FC Barcelona of the Liga ACB.[8] After one season, Barcelona parted ways with him.[9] On June 30, 2017, Bartzokas returned to the VTB United League, in order to be the new head coach of the Russian club Khimki. He signed a two-year contract.[10] On January 21, 2019 Bartzokas left Khimki, the contract was terminated.[11]
On January 10, 2020, Barzokas returned to Olympiacos and he signed a 2+1⁄2-year deal. After two months as head coach, the season was cancelled due to the pandemic situation. In the 2020-21 season, Bartzokas tried to rebuild the team's roster after Sloukas return, but Olympiacos didn't qualify for the Play-off round of EuroLeague. In the 2021-22 season he won the Greek Cup with Olympiacos. That was his first national trophy. Shortly after, he won the Greek Championship. In EuroLeague he qualified with Olympiacos to the Final Four of Belgrade, in which they finished in the fourth place.
In season 2022-23 Bartzokas with Olympiacos won the Greek championship and Greek Cup and they also reached the final of Euroleague, where they were defeated by Real Madrid.
Personal
[edit]His family hails from the village of Kentriko, Arta. His father Andreas (1925-2015) was a member of KKE and he was a political prisoner during the 50s and 60s.[12]
Coaching record
[edit]Legend | |||||||||
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G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | W–L % | Win-loss % |
Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the team played during the season. He also coached in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.
EuroLeague
[edit]Team | Year | G | W | L | W–L% | Result |
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Maroussi | 2009–10 | 16 | 6 | 10 | .375 | Eliminated in Top 16 stage |
Olympiacos | ||||||
2012–13 | 31 | 22 | 9 | .710 | Won EuroLeague Championship | |
2013–14 | 29 | 20 | 9 | .690 | Eliminated in quarterfinals | |
Lokomotiv Kuban | 2015–16 | 31 | 21 | 10 | .677 | Won in 3rd place game |
Barcelona | 2016–17 | 30 | 12 | 18 | .400 | Eliminated in the regular season |
Khimki | 2017–18 | 34 | 17 | 17 | .500 | Eliminated in quarterfinals |
Olympiacos | 2019–20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | .500 | Eliminated in Regular Season |
2020–21 | 34 | 16 | 18 | .471 | Eliminated in Regular Season | |
2021–22 | 28 | 19 | 9 | .679 | 4th place | |
2022–23 | 34 | 24 | 10 | .706 | 2nd place | |
2023–24 | 34 | 27 | 15 | .643 | Won in 3rd place game | |
Career | 278 | 187 | 130 | .585 |
Awards and accomplishments
[edit]As a head coach
[edit]Titles won
[edit]Worldwide club competitions
[edit]- FIBA Intercontinental Cup Champion: 2013: (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
European club competitions
[edit]- EuroLeague Champion: 2013 (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
Domestic league club competitions
[edit]- Catalan League Champion: 2016 (with FC Barcelona)
- 2× Greek League Champion: 2022, 2023 (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
- 3× Greek Cup Winner: 2022, 2023, 2024 (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
- 2× Greek Super Cup Winner: 2022, 2023 (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
- Gomelsky Cup Winner: 2017 (with Khimki)
Other honors
[edit]European distinctions
[edit]- EuroLeague Final Finalist: 2023 (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
- 5× EuroLeague Final Four Participation: 2016 (with Lokomotiv Kuban), 2013 2022, 2023, 2024 (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
Domestic distinctions
[edit]- 2× VTB United League Finalist: 2018, 2019 (with Khimki)
- 3× Greek League Finalist: 2013, 2014, 2024 (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
- 2× Greek League Third Place: 2010 (with Maroussi), 2012 (with Panionios)
- Greek Cup Finalist: 2013 (with Olympiacos Piraeus)
- Spanish Supercup Finalist: 2016 (with FC Barcelona
Individual awards and accomplishments
[edit]European awards
[edit]- 3× EuroLeague Coach of the Year: 2013, 2022, 2023
- Eurobasket News All-Europe Coach of the Year: 2013[13]
Domestic awards
[edit]Club team awards
[edit]- The head coach with the most wins in the history of Olympiacos Piraeus in the Greek League.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Euroleague.net Maroussi names Bartzokas head coach.
- ^ George Bartzokas: 2009-10 Greek League Coach of the Year.
- ^ Euroleague.net OLYMPIACOS finds new coach in Bartzokas.
- ^ Euroleague.net Bartzokas is first Greek coach to win the Euroleague.
- ^ Euroleague.net Alexander Gomelskiy Trophy: Georgios Bartzokas, Olympiacos.
- ^ "Lokomotiv tabs Bartzokas for bench". Euroleague. 5 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "Final Four head coach: Georgios Bartzokas, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar". Euroleague. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "Georgios Bartzokas is the new man in charge of Barça Lassa". FC Barcelona. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "FC Barcelona, coach Bartzokas part ways". Euroleague.net. 7 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Khimki hires Bartzokas". EuroLeague. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "Khimki Moscow Region, Georgios Bartzokas part ways". BC Khimki. 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ Ανδρέας Μπαρτζώκας Ο κόκκινος Πρωταθλητής της Αριστεράς tvxs.gr
- ^ "European Awards 2013 - Men Basketball". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
External links
[edit]- Georgios Bartzokas at acb.com (in Spanish)
- Georgios Bartzokas at euroleague.net
- Georgios Bartzokas at gpksports.com
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Basketball players from Athens
- BC Khimki coaches
- EuroLeague-winning coaches
- FC Barcelona Bàsquet coaches
- Greek basketball coaches
- Greek men's basketball players
- Liga ACB head coaches
- Maroussi B.C. players
- Maroussi B.C. coaches
- Olympiacos B.C. coaches
- Olympia Larissa B.C. coaches
- Panionios B.C. coaches
- PBC Lokomotiv-Kuban coaches
- Power forwards