Jonas Valanciunas Summer Discussion Thread (Olympics!)

[BalticGiants]

http://www.thestar.com/sports/basketbal ... alanciunas

[Raptor_Claw]

Jasikevicius never had consistent shot from 23-24 feet. His 18-20 feet jumpers are money, he missed plenty of open 3s in his day.

And you rather have Papanikolaou than Kleiza. Thats absolutely ridiculous. If Papanikolaou was Lithuanian, there is a high chance he was not even invited to camp. How exactly he is better than Kleiza and why you have him instead of Linas? Explain...

Papanikolaou is better than Kleiza in the current time.

So please explain to me how and why Kleiza is currently better than Papanikolaou. And please come up with a better reason than, "because he plays in the NBA and Papanikolaou does not".

[UcanUwill]

Yeah, WE should explain why Kleiza is better, ok...

Thats it, set IGNORE the biggest hypocrite on the internet, its been a year I talking with you, this is getting pathetic.

[JV4MVP]

Looks as if Raptor_Claw is the expert on Lithuanian basketball players.

He spew some hate on Motiejunas on the Rockets board as well.

[UcanUwill]

I spew some hate on Motiejunas too Thats nothing. I hate his phony comments on Euro and Greece basketball superiority. He does not believe in what he says, I mean 100% of his comments I saw were more or less hypocritical. Just visited Nets board, were he said Luis Scola and Kirilenko was/is second tier Euro players... And of course Spanoulis is first tier player hahaha...

[JV4MVP]

I spew some hate on Motiejunas too Thats nothing. I hate his phony comments on Euro and Greece basketball superiority. He does not believe in what he says, I mean 100% of his comments I saw were more or less hypocritical. Just visited Nets board, were he said Luis Scola and Kirilenko was/is second tier Euro players... And of course Spanoulis is first tier player hahaha...

Vassilis played 31 games in the NBA, averaging less than 9 minutes a game. 1 ast, 1 TO, 2.7 pts on 32% FG, 17% 3-pt FG

[Pablonis]

I spew some hate on Motiejunas too Thats nothing. I hate his phony comments on Euro and Greece basketball superiority. He does not believe in what he says, I mean 100% of his comments I saw were more or less hypocritical. Just visited Nets board, were he said Luis Scola and Kirilenko was/is second tier Euro players... And of course Spanoulis is first tier player hahaha...

[Darknemo2000]

I spew some hate on Motiejunas too Thats nothing. I hate his phony comments on Euro and Greece basketball superiority. He does not believe in what he says, I mean 100% of his comments I saw were more or less hypocritical. Just visited Nets board, were he said Luis Scola and Kirilenko was/is second tier Euro players... And of course Spanoulis is first tier player hahaha...

You know how it is. Because Ginobilli and Scola or Prigioni played quite a bit in Europe they are considered somewhat of Euro players and one has to admit that their playing style is more of an Euro than say south american.

[LithuanianOne]

HD: http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx14 ... r_2012.jpg

That is awesome. No problems if I use it as my facebook cover picture ?

[BalticGiants]

I spew some hate on Motiejunas too Thats nothing. I hate his phony comments on Euro and Greece basketball superiority. He does not believe in what he says, I mean 100% of his comments I saw were more or less hypocritical. Just visited Nets board, were he said Luis Scola and Kirilenko was/is second tier Euro players... And of course Spanoulis is first tier player hahaha...

Oh now everthing is clear I know this fella very well. He's probably best known "troll" (extreame one) of Spanoulis (first of all), Greeks and European basketball (lastly) in the most boards that exists for basketball. Also he's almighty enemy of NBA (because they ruined Spanoulis NBA career) but still in love with organization I would like to believe I'm wrong, but just too many signs

No desrespect Raptor Claw, everyone has a right to be a "little" bit crazy basketball fan though...

[UcanUwill]

By Euro players, I meant the ones who play(ed) in Europe at the time, dont be so picky.

Vassilis played 31 games in the NBA, averaging less than 9 minutes a game. 1 ast, 1 TO, 2.7 pts on 32% FG, 17% 3-pt FG

He is not that bad, but crap happens. We can say the same about Macijauskas, who at least deserved more treatment than guys like D. Cook or Gary Neal you know...

But Spanoulis was always overrated. He hit his prime this year I think, yes, he was great this year, but anyway, what he can offer to the NBA? Too tiny to play SG, lacks NBA skills to be PG, and is just not good to be 1-2 option like he use to be. Overall bad fit.
He also has a lot of ''doubters'' in Europe, basically just because of his game style, we have the same thing in the NBA with guys like Westbrook and so on.

[RaptorLakerJay]

Hey, I'm new to this forum and I really like how many passionate fans are here! I must say last year I wanted Kemba with the Raps and detested Jonas. However, I am now a huge fan of BIG V and can't wait for him in a raptors jersey! The kid is putting in work!

[Kastas]

Sometimes I hate reporters. In recent blog post they report that Alex McKechnie measured Valanciunas's weight and body fat percentage and blah blah blah. Come on! Exact numbers would be the first thing I would research having Jonas near by.

[Los Manos]

Sometimes I hate reporters. In recent blog post they report that Alex McKechnie measured Valanciunas's weight and body fat percentage and blah blah blah. Come on! Exact numbers would be the first thing I would research having Jonas near by.

huh?

[Eimiss]

HD: http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx14 ... r_2012.jpg

That is awesome. No problems if I use it as my facebook cover picture ?

Amazing job! Also same question here

[Alfred]

I spew some hate on Motiejunas too Thats nothing. I hate his phony comments on Euro and Greece basketball superiority. He does not believe in what he says, I mean 100% of his comments I saw were more or less hypocritical. Just visited Nets board, were he said Luis Scola and Kirilenko was/is second tier Euro players... And of course Spanoulis is first tier player hahaha...

Oh now everthing is clear I know this fella very well. He's probably best known "troll" (extreame one) of Spanoulis (first of all), Greeks and European basketball (lastly) in the most boards that exists for basketball. Also he's almighty enemy of NBA (because they ruined Spanoulis NBA career) but still in love with organization I would like to believe I'm wrong, but just too many signs

No desrespect Raptor Claw, everyone has a right to be a "little" bit crazy basketball fan though...

Wait, is he KWSN_Men? The guy who hates Ricky Rubio and loves Olympiakos?

[niQ]

I spew some hate on Motiejunas too Thats nothing. I hate his phony comments on Euro and Greece basketball superiority. He does not believe in what he says, I mean 100% of his comments I saw were more or less hypocritical. Just visited Nets board, were he said Luis Scola and Kirilenko was/is second tier Euro players... And of course Spanoulis is first tier player hahaha...

Oh now everthing is clear I know this fella very well. He's probably best known "troll" (extreame one) of Spanoulis (first of all), Greeks and European basketball (lastly) in the most boards that exists for basketball. Also he's almighty enemy of NBA (because they ruined Spanoulis NBA career) but still in love with organization I would like to believe I'm wrong, but just too many signs

No desrespect Raptor Claw, everyone has a right to be a "little" bit crazy basketball fan though...

Wait, is he KWSN_Men? The guy who hates Ricky Rubio and loves Olympiakos?

Wait, is he European_Baller on nbadraft.net by any chance?

[BalticGiants]

Wait, is he KWSN_Men? The guy who hates Ricky Rubio and loves Olympiakos?

KWSN_Men is different guy - Panathinaikos fan. I wouldn't be surprised they both hates Rubio though.

[Alfred]

Wait, is he KWSN_Men? The guy who hates Ricky Rubio and loves Olympiakos?

KWSN_Men is different guy - Panathinaikos fan. I wouldn't be surprised they both hates Rubio though.

A guy came on this website (who had apparently stolen the real KWSN_Men's name, a guy from another Euro basketball site) and had the Olympiakos symbol for his avatar. He claimed that he had a 180 IQ and loathed Ricky Rubio.

Let me dig up the thread in the moderator forum to find out what his original name was.

[Alfred]

His name was Talkbasket on that forum.