Jonas Valanciunas 11/12 Season Thread II

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Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

Not eliminated for certain, but Rytas now goes through to the Eurocup quarter finals (elite 8). One other team from that group will go through with Rytas, likely Kuban (Krasnador, Russia)

[BillyGM]

Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

Should be Chimki, and in my book they are the best team in Eurocup with former Rytas headcoach Kurtinaitis.

[Los Manos]

It looks like Rytas won their group on points advantage over Lokomotiv Kuban who finished second. It looks like Rytas will play BC Khimki who finished second on points difference in Group J in the quarter finals. They are played on March 20th and March 27th.

[Mefisto]

17/7 say HALO to DrMufasa , long time he is ff the Val thread, i wonder why ?

[Mefisto]

Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

Should be Chimki, and in my book they are the best team in Eurocup with former Rytas headcoach Kurtinaitis.

No, it is Budivelnik Doneck, strongest Ukrainiain team.

[mcray]

Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

acording to eurocup webpage it should be some team called BC Donetsk, don't know who they are
http://www.eurocupbasketball.com/eurocu ... ion/format

[Mefisto]

Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

Not eliminated for certain, but Rytas now goes through to the Eurocup quarter finals (elite 8). One other team from that group will go through with Rytas, likely Kuban (Krasnador, Russia)

Eliminated indeed, Rytas ant Lokomotiv go to next stage. Rytas vs. BUdivelnik in 1/4 ths.

[Los Manos]

Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

acording to eurocup webpage it should be some team called BC Donetsk, don't know who they are
http://www.eurocupbasketball.com/eurocu ... ion/format

Ah great it has been updated. So yeah Rytas vs BC Donetsk in the quarter finals.

[raptor21_85]

someoneplease should make a mix vid of Bargs-Big V frontcourt...helluva frontcourt

[RPzB]

Thats good indeed, cuz Donetsk is weaker than Khimki by a considerable margin IMO.

[UcanUwill]

Well, Donetsk did play a good basketball, but Rytas is a superior team IMO.

Rub this game in Johnlac's face. Jonas finished it strong, bounce pass to Seibutis was sweet.

[Yoga]

Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

Not eliminated for certain, but Rytas now goes through to the Eurocup quarter finals (elite 8). One other team from that group will go through with Rytas, likely Kuban (Krasnador, Russia)

I'm not familiar with the Eurocup...does that include teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, etc??

[UcanUwill]

Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

Not eliminated for certain, but Rytas now goes through to the Eurocup quarter finals (elite 8). One other team from that group will go through with Rytas, likely Kuban (Krasnador, Russia)

I'm not familiar with the Eurocup...does that include teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, etc??

No, it does not include Real Madrid, Barcelona or Juventus.
LOL Juventus.

[Snowcrash]

that was not Valanciunas with the steal, but Katelynas. Eurosport commentators are friggin terrible.

+1

If a basketball commentator is British, he sucks. Period.

Ha, British commentators sucks so bad. They truly barely understands basketball and always compares it to Football... Way better than Lithuanian ones tho.

Like Canadian commentators always using hockey analogies.

[Los Manos]

You won't hear a british commentator saying anything like "player X crosses over, drives the lane and scores with the pretty finger roll". It's usually "YES!!......2 points, how on earth did he just do that?"

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Nice W. It was all Big V in the 4th Q... so this means Benetton is eliminated right??? what team is the next rival for Big V??

Not eliminated for certain, but Rytas now goes through to the Eurocup quarter finals (elite 8). One other team from that group will go through with Rytas, likely Kuban (Krasnador, Russia)

I'm not familiar with the Eurocup...does that include teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, etc??

No, Real and Barca are Euroleague teams - the highest level. This is one level down, but Rytas would be better than some Euroleague teams, just not as good as Real, Barca, CSKA Moscow, Panathanaikos, etc. Those are among the big fish of European basketball and always in Euroleague.

Rytas also plays in the VTB league which does have a couple of Euroleague teams, including CSKA, Asseco Prokom (whom they beat) and Lithuanian arch-rival Zalgiris.

Rytas has a decent chance to make the final four of Eurocup, and a decent chance to qualify for the playoffs in VTB. They have a bit of hope of winning Eurocup, if they have a really good playoff run, but winning VTB would be a major long-shot.

21m Simonas Baranauskas ‏ @LithuaniaBasket
TonyBet odds to win Eurocup: Khimki 2.55, Valencia 4.75, Spartak 5.50, L.Rytas 6.50, Loko 12.00, Donetsk 15.00, CEZ 25.00, Buducnost 75.00.

[UcanUwill]

British basketball commentators are really funny. They do have hard times, and assumes their listeners are also not really familiar with basketball. Something happens and they always say smth. like this.

''If you not familiar with the rules...'' and then they stop, stall, cause they have no idea what the hell happened...
10 seconds later, they explains it. and then compares that particular incident, rule or call to Football. Thats hilarious.

[Los Manos]

British basketball commentators are really funny. They do have hard times, and assumes their listeners are also not really familiar with basketball. Something happens and they always say smth. like this.

''If you not familiar with the rules...'' and then they stop, stall, cause they have no idea what the hell happened...
10 seconds later, they explains it. and then compares that particular incident, rule or call to Football. Thats hilarious.

Expect that over and over and over again come the Olympics! It's agony.

[ESTK]

Mefisto, Rytas won't play Budivelnyk, they will play Doneck, that's 2 different teams.

Jonas really helped out Rytas in second half.

[Raps in 4]

You won't hear a british commentator saying anything like "player X crosses over, drives the lane and scores with the pretty finger roll". It's usually "YES!!......2 points, how on earth did he just do that?"

That's because there are no British commentators!