Jonas Valanciunas Summer Discussion Thread (Olympics!)

UcanUwill · Post #1361 » by **UcanUwill** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 12:52 am

nelabai wrote:Val looks scared and not confident on the court, playing like not himself.

Exactly. Guy is weak mentally. Coaching staff must be harsh, but they need to encourage young players too.

Darknemo2000 · Post #1362 » by **Darknemo2000** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 12:53 am

nelabai wrote:Val looks scared and not confident on the court, playing like not himself.

If you would get calls like that second foul call (awful one) you would be scared too since it feels that whenever you touch you get a foul. For a guy who likes physical basketball its a true hell.

Still Val looked bad on court but refs are not helping too.

Thespianoid · Post #1363 » by **Thespianoid** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 12:54 am

UcanUwill wrote:
nelabai wrote:Val looks scared and not confident on the court, playing like not himself.

Exactly. Guy is weak mentally. Coaching staff must be harsh, but they need to encourage young players too.

I don't want to make a negative comparison, but isn't that similar to what happened to Biedrins? For different reasons of course.

NiL8r87 · Post #1364 » by **NiL8r87** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 12:54 am

So yeah, about next year's starting center....

clockwork · Post #1365 » by **clockwork** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 12:57 am

GooniesNeverDie wrote:reffing in this game makes me appreciate nba refs

i wouldn't say it's bad refs, it's just the way the players are dictating the game.

Los Manos · Post #1366 » by **Los Manos** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:01 am

NiL8r87 wrote:So yeah, about next year's starting center....

The kid just needs an injection of Casey.

I am starting to think the best thing for him might be to come over now.

UcanUwill · Post #1367 » by **UcanUwill** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:02 am

Thespianoid wrote:
UcanUwill wrote:
nelabai wrote:Val looks scared and not confident on the court, playing like not himself.

Exactly. Guy is weak mentally. Coaching staff must be harsh, but they need to encourage young players too.

I don't want to make a negative comparison, but isn't that similar to what happened to Biedrins? For different reasons of course.

I dont know about that, but you know, mental factor can kill any talent. Thats how simple it is. When everything goes right for Val, he looks great, but here we get a slow start, big pressure and everything went downhill. I think he has a lot of paranoid thoughts every time he is on the floor. 2 more qarters to go in this one, hope he leaves everything whats bad behind, we'll see.

NiL8r87 · Post #1368 » by **NiL8r87** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:03 am

Los Manos wrote:
NiL8r87 wrote:So yeah, about next year's starting center....

The kid just needs an injection of Casey.

I am starting to think the best thing for him might be to come over now.

I think he needs several injections.

These kind of problems are gonna take awhile to fully sort out if Amir is any indication.

nelabai · Post #1369 » by **nelabai** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:06 am

Val is in

pumpfake ersan · Post #1370 » by **pumpfake ersan** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:06 am

KANTER IS BETTER THAN VAL

Los Manos · Post #1371 » by **Los Manos** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:06 am

NiL8r87 wrote:
Los Manos wrote:
NiL8r87 wrote:So yeah, about next year's starting center....

The kid just needs an injection of Casey.

I am starting to think the best thing for him might be to come over now.

I think he needs several injections.

These kind of problems are gonna take awhile to fully sort out if Amir is any indication.

I'm not concerned. He's proven to be pretty tough mentally. It's just been a very long season (80 games) following two summer tournaments last year and straight into training with the national team again this summer. He hasn't had an extended break from basketball for a LONG time and I think it started to catch up to him in his last month for Rytas and has carried into his summer play.

killerbs · Post #1372 » by **killerbs** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:08 am

so if they win today their in for good?

HSOB SIRHC · Post #1373 » by **HSOB SIRHC** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:09 am

Man... let them play! That should have been a play on.

nelabai · Post #1374 » by **nelabai** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:09 am

Oh man he should just stood there, tried to block it again, this night is over for him

NiL8r87 · Post #1375 » by **NiL8r87** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:09 am

#4...

Los Manos · Post #1376 » by **Los Manos** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:10 am

killerbs wrote:so if they win today their in for good?

Nope. They'd need to win a semi-final too. Or if you lose the semi-final you can still get in by winning the 3rd place final.

RaptorLakerJay · Post #1377 » by **RaptorLakerJay** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:12 am

Lithuania's coach must not be sharp.. This is just terrible offence.

CanadaB-Ball · Post #1378 » by **CanadaB-Ball** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:12 am

pumpfake ersan wrote:KANTER IS BETTER THAN VAL

All 13 minutes of him?

Yeah, I suppose if undersized, no offense, and mediocre defense kind-of-centers are your thing.

nelabai · Post #1379 » by **nelabai** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:16 am

CanadaB-Ball wrote:
pumpfake ersan wrote:KANTER IS BETTER THAN VAL

All 13 minutes of him?

Yeah, I suppose if undersized, no offense, and mediocre defense kind-of-centers are your thing.

Kanter is still more NBA ready than Val, he has a body of a 30 year old.

UcanUwill · Post #1380 » by **UcanUwill** » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:18 am

Oh, now we have 6'8 Songaila on 7'3.5 Ramos...