Doron Jamchy , the best Israeli shooter of all time, one of its greatest players and Israel's top scorer of all times, with 4.224 points, 11 Israeli Championships won with Maccabi Tel Aviv and 7 Israeli State Cups, was present at Athens 1st Eurostar and gave at Eurobasket.com a brief interview, stating though some interesting things:

Q: What do you think are the chances of Israel to qualify from the Additional Qualifying Round to the forthcoming Eurobasket 2007 of Spain?
D.J.: First of all, I hope we can do it. However, it will not be easy to qualify and as an example I bring our loss from Portugal at the previous round, which brought us to the additional round instead of the final round of Eurobasket. We have a very talented team, with many talented players, although we still have the disadvantage of not having a full knowledge of our roster for the games. If it was difficult to qualify with our initial roster, after the withdrawals of Arnold and Burstein it would be even more difficult.

Q: If Israel qualifies, it will face Greece at the very first game of the first round of the Eurobasket 2007. What do you think of such a game, especially since Greece, in such a case, will have few games to be prepared for the game (we remind that the team to qualify to Group A of Granada will become just 3 days before Eurobasket's beginning)?
D.J.: The most games between Greece and Israel during the last years have been almost equal. However, generally there were also games with big differences for Greece. Of course, we made it difficult for Greece to qualify at Beograd and I think that our game at that Tuesday gave Greece a strong, mental especially, advantage for the rest of Eurobasket 2005. We raise their self-esteem a lot. In any case, Greece is a very difficult and talented team, the champions of Europe and 2nd team of World Championship, a very strong team. Giannakis is a very good friend of me and I hope we will make his life difficult that evening (we should have qualified firstly, of course).

Q: Do you have any idea of the presence of Israel's funs at Spain?
D.J.: With our national team the things are very different than with Maccabi and the presence of its funs at Euroleague's Final 4etc. Certainly, some people will follow us at Spain, but in any case I believe that Greeks will be much many at Granada than we.

Q: And something about the 1st Eurostar?
D.J.: It is always very good for me and I feel very happy when I have the chance to feel the great Greek hospitality for one more time. I feel also happy to meet again my friends - journalists - and to feel the support and admiration of all my years at the past. I really feel blessed to be here in Athens and join all these great players and old friends.