LTU NT and JV at the 2015 European Championship

LuDux1 · Post #1221 » by **LuDux1** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:34 pm

My born-after-1986 NT:

Valanciunas Gudaitis
Motiejunas Sabonis Orelikas
Kuzminskas Gailius
Gecevicius Grigonis Juskevicius
Lekavicius Janavicius

Rappid · Post #1222 » by **Rappid** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:37 pm

LuDux1 wrote:My born-after-1986 NT:

Valanciunas Gudaitis
Motiejunas Sabonis Orelikas
Kuzminskas Gailius
Gecevicius Grigonis Juskevicius
Lekavicius Janavicius

Love the list, except Gecevicius should have no place on a good team, let alone a national team :wink:

Future front court rotation of Val-Dmo-Sabas jr. is scary tho!

UcanUwill · Post #1223 » by **UcanUwill** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:37 pm

Rappid wrote:Come on Ucan.. Kalnietis has good vision due to size, fundamentals for a PG are definitely lacking. Awkward dribble, poor'ish shooter.. He was an amazing athlete back in the day, but..
Now Saras was a PG, Kalnietis is a combo-guard. Not that that's a bad thing.

Kalnietis is a strange player, its like he skipped some integral part of Baskretball development. Guy can't even set his feet when shooting. He lacks fundamentals for sure, but that doesn't mean he is not a PG, his assists numbers are still ridiculously good and his scoring rate is really low. He looks like pass first PG to me, just one with bad fundamentals.
I think even calling him a combo guard is a stretch, because he has no combo guard skills. Guy doesn't know who to get open, doesn't know who to move without the ball, is bad spot up shooter.

EleveN · Post #1224 » by **EleveN** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:42 pm

LuDux1 wrote:My born-after-1986 NT:

Valanciunas Gudaitis
Motiejunas Sabonis Orelikas
Kuzminskas Gailius
Gecevicius Grigonis Juskevicius
Lekavicius Janavicius

I would love to see a front court of:
Valančiūnas/Galdikas/Gudaitis
Motiejūnas/Sabonis

Galdikas doesnt really have any reputation in Lithuania but the guy is puting up double doubles with 2-3 blocks. He will play in a good club Gran Canaria and in ACB. If he succeeds ( which i believe he will) he can change Javtokas as a defensive big

iktuz · Post #1225 » by **iktuz** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:44 pm

If Gecevicius was here, we would have lost by 30 points. He's completely useless on offense under good defense and he's a complete zero on defense.

Galdikas ? Lmao

niauer · Post #1226 » by **niauer** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:48 pm

Rappid wrote:Absolutely love Lakavicius, deffo a strong back-up for years to come. Young, smart, reads the game well.. On topic of young and perspective we also have this guy Kuzminskas (SG-SF). Best physical specimen on the LT team (both size wise and athletic ability) can handle the ball as well as our point guards, can drive, can shoot.. Allergic to greatness tho. Flashes of amazing then a disappear act circe jerk. God damn it, should he ever put it all together, he could be our very own Batum. One can hope..

Kuzminskas did 2 assists in 4th quarter to JV in short time, and JV did most assists in first half. Lithuania had really problems with point guards this championship, but Kalnietis had injury and Lekavicius is very young, one year ago he played in second league in Lithuania, he made so much overal, if he will keep improving, he will be good and Kalnietis will be better in Rio for sure. As for Kuzminskas, he had many points(most i think) vs USA team few years ago, i think he will go to NBA within few years.

Sakkreth · Post #1227 » by **Sakkreth** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:55 pm

Congrats Spain, played a better game and was the stronger team tonight. Best game of the torunament for them when it mattered the most.

Atleast got a good laugh from Rudy injuring himself by flopping.

niauer · Post #1228 » by **niauer** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:57 pm

He is one of the best floppers in the world, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daXwJ3KRgbI

You can check on youtube there is so many of him, he often runs himself on purpose and falls on purpose and then he acts like he hurt so much, every game he does this in europe atleast, hate players like that.

AfricanSensation · Post #1229 » by **AfricanSensation** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 8:54 pm

Val made the 1st team with Gasol, De Colo, Sergio, ans Maciuius. Plus he helped his country reach the final ans qualify for the Olympics.

:nod:

username1 · Post #1230 » by **username1** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:43 am

It isn't very pleasant to finish the tournament with a 17 point loss, but looking at the bigger picture, Lithuania definitely overachieved this tournament. Got silver medal, qualified to the Olympics and surpassed Argentina in World rankings for the 3rd place (after USA and Spain).
I hope that next summer we can assemble the full squad and maybe overcome that elusive Olympic semi-final barrier. (Lithuania played in 3 straight Olympic semi-finals. No other team, save for USA, has managed to achieve that).

trashmaster · Post #1231 » by **trashmaster** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:03 am

username1 wrote:It isn't very pleasant to finish the tournament with a 17 point loss, but looking at the bigger picture, Lithuania definitely overachieved this tournament. Got silver medal, qualified to the Olympics and surpassed Argentina in World rankings for the 3rd place (after USA and Spain).
I hope that next summer we can assemble the full squad and maybe overcome that elusive Olympic semi-final barrier. (Lithuania played in 3 straight Olympic semi-finals. No other team, save for USA, has managed to achieve that).

Actually, 5 straight semis 92-08

username1 · Post #1232 » by **username1** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 11:48 am

trashmaster wrote:
username1 wrote:It isn't very pleasant to finish the tournament with a 17 point loss, but looking at the bigger picture, Lithuania definitely overachieved this tournament. Got silver medal, qualified to the Olympics and surpassed Argentina in World rankings for the 3rd place (after USA and Spain).
I hope that next summer we can assemble the full squad and maybe overcome that elusive Olympic semi-final barrier. (Lithuania played in 3 straight Olympic semi-finals. No other team, save for USA, has managed to achieve that).

Actually, 5 straight semis 92-08

Oh, right, my bad. That horrible streak breaker in 2012 London OG messed up my Olympics counter

GoSu · Post #1233 » by **GoSu** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:43 pm

Sharing few pics from todays team meeting in Lithuania:

More can be found here: http://www.delfi.lt/sportas/eurobasket/namo-sugrize-europos-vicecempionai-lietuvos-krepsininkai-pasitikti-kaip-didvyriai.d?id=69063810

Post #1234 » by **pbj** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:46 pm

GoSu wrote:Sharing few pics from todays team meeting in Lithuania:

I have no idea what's going on in this picture, but I think I really like it and we should adopt this tradition here in Canada

aw8 · Post #1235 » by **aw8** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:52 pm

[tweet]https://twitter.com/FIBA/status/645703620017565696[/tweet]
By the way, is JV really 7 foot? he looks couple inches shorter than Pau.

username1 · Post #1236 » by **username1** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:45 pm

aw8 wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/FIBA/status/645703620017565696[/tweet]
By the way, is JV really 7 foot? he looks couple inches shorter than Pau.

Inb4, JV is wearing shoes with platforms & this photo is sped up to make Jonas look faster

jonny three time · Post #1237 » by **jonny three time** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:00 pm

Do we still have matching rights on De Colo if he comes back to the NBA? I liked his game and always thought he'd be a good 3rd guard if he got his 3 pt shot up to a good percent.

Post #1238 » by **pbj** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:10 pm

jonny three time wrote:Do we still have matching rights on De Colo if he comes back to the NBA? I liked his game and always thought he'd be a good 3rd guard if he got his 3 pt shot up to a good percent.

Spurs signed him to a 2 year deal in July 2012, so I'm pretty sure he's just a FA now, if he were to come back.

jonny three time · Post #1239 » by **jonny three time** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:26 pm

pbj wrote:
jonny three time wrote:Do we still have matching rights on De Colo if he comes back to the NBA? I liked his game and always thought he'd be a good 3rd guard if he got his 3 pt shot up to a good percent.

Spurs signed him to a 2 year deal in July 2012, so I'm pretty sure he's just a FA now, if he were to come back.

Yeah, but they drafted him in the second round, so he wasn't a typical FA signing. I thought there was something about a QO being sent, or not being sent his way. There was some sort of talk about it at that time but I can't remember where we stood.

Mikistan · Post #1240 » by **Mikistan** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:39 pm

jonny three time wrote:
pbj wrote:
jonny three time wrote:Do we still have matching rights on De Colo if he comes back to the NBA? I liked his game and always thought he'd be a good 3rd guard if he got his 3 pt shot up to a good percent.

Spurs signed him to a 2 year deal in July 2012, so I'm pretty sure he's just a FA now, if he were to come back.

Yeah, but they drafted him in the second round, so he wasn't a typical FA signing. I thought there was something about a QO being sent, or not being sent his way. There was some sort of talk about it at that time but I can't remember where we stood.

I think we had a thread on here saying we had his bird rights coming back earlier this summer