 They consequently failed to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics, and were doomed to two years of exclusion from every major tournament.Greece had to wait for the EuroBasket 2001 in order to make its comeback to the international scene.The team obviously was in the middle of a transition period, during which young stars Theo Papaloukas, Antonis Fotsis, and Lazaros Papadopoulos were unable to build a highly competitive team right away.