Valanciunas needs a break from basketball.You can see from his look he dont wanna even play, same look he had in olympics.Or maybe those big money spoiled youngster , all career so far jonas could rely on his gifted tallent.Maybe as kazlauskas said it comes a time you must put some effort in trainings too.Something aint right with him right now, but maybe nothing too dramatical.
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Okay its time Valanciunas gets confident with his jumpers how much more evidence is needed not just for us but for himself to, look at the most recent video of him against the Bulls 0:45 and 1:01 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbRKTZ-JVA he should be attempting two to three shots per game and not get discouraged if he misses.
D.Sabonis was asked in the interview what makes him so confident with him attempting those shots and he simply answers his team mates they are encouraging me if i pass away a good opportunity they get mad at me. Valanciunas simply doesn't have or had that in his rookie year this kind of environment with the Raptors. Would be good if he was traded to some lower tier team where he would have the freedom and not have this pshychological pressure. Just do your own thing man.Lithuania
Olympic Games: Bronze 1992-1996-2000.
FIBA World Championship : Bronze 2010.
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Hard to blame Raptors for wanting Valanciunas to play closer to the basket: raptors are 24th in nba in rebounding percentage and Valanciunas is by far their best rebounder. Sullinger is good one, but he still can't playThe Moon Is A SCAM(http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)!
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Both sides has to share the blame here.
Raps got a talented guy and from get go made him somewhat that he was not. They made him bulk up and play With his back to the basket. Roy Hibbert they said. Next year all of a sudden he is to slow, lets send him to a running Coach, maybe he will help? They wanted him to anchor the defence, something he will never be capable of. Now Caseys talks about 3 pointers and spreading the floor....
They got a Jewel, which could have been something special. But they pushed him to do Things he was bad at and completly ignored his best assets, like soft touch and rolling. He was even a above average shotblocker early in his carrer, but they told him to stop going for Blocks, og straight up like hibbert to alter the shots. Now he cant do neither of those properly.
On the other hand JV himself is a duche. A proff athlete cant be in that kind of shape he is now. Im no athlete but Im in better shape. There was also signs from the get go that he was relying on his talent more then hard work. Remember driving without License? Driving drunk? These kinds of Things show that he was, maybe still is a immature kid who earned millions just for pure talent and long arms. Think about it he signed that 64m contract still having one year under his belt... After the last years playoffs performance he would have got 90-100m. But he went the easy, safe road. Like he has no ambitions.
We all know that he is a low IQ player, but one could learn how to pass out of post in 5 years right? He improved gradually every year, like all Young players do. But everyone expected him to take a leap and he never did, because he never have put in the work.
I was and still am a huge fan, but there comes a time when I have to take the rose glasses off and admit that this dude is not in the right Place mentally. I hope he can turn Things around.
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Valanciunas made last 27 attempted threethrowsThe Moon Is A SCAM(http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)!
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You guys must be bored to create page about him.. he's offence getting bad ,only talent using elbow to push opponent. I like him when he started in nba, now he playing like average [person].
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Originally posted by Psichinis View PostYou guys must be bored to create page about him.. he's offence getting bad ,only talent using elbow to push opponent. I like him when he started in nba, now he playing like average [person].
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JV is good lately. His jumper is most fluent as I've seen so far. I think it's has a lot to do with Demar being out and he got more touches, got motivated. Last game he was 7/7 and still sat out almost all 4th quarter. The best scenario for JV is an early entry of the Raptors and he himself or Casey being gone. He is just wasting his talent in Raptors coached by Casey. He needs touches, he needs to be a part of the offence to play well. His defence improves tremendously when he's scoring. he's that kind of a player. If he's not involved he's limping at D.
But I guess he'll beast again in PO and will save Demars and Lowry's shaking legs in the first round. And than will come gassed and out of shape to the NT...LTU NT will snatch Eurobasket 2029 title with this roster:
Jokubaitis, Marciulionis, Laurencikas
Indrusaitis, Brazdeikis, Rubstavicius
Buzelis, Lelevicius
Murauskas, Sirvydis
Tubelis, Krivas
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Comon strf its getting ridiculous, you obviuosly dont even try to see entire picture, only Valanciunas play.Whats the point even if jonas gets more touches without Demar raptors can even win 50% of the games even when Jonas scores 20...Valanciunas gassed out? He has the longest breaks before nt camps than any other player usually like 2-3 months.Its not about gasing its about getting out of shape in those months with fishing and other stuff he is doing and not working on his improvements.Jonas did play only in first games, but they won second round, and was 2-2 without Jonas with Cavs.Without Derozan they have no chance winning any serries.To critizise casey for giving ball to derozan more than to Valanciunas that its just biased fans talks with very little truth.
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I was being sarcastic a little bit, but I do think he's not involved enough looking from his personal development surely and maybe even team wise (Raptors wins balance is good when JV scores +20) because he's much better at D as well when gets involved. BTW, a lot of people think JV was the key for Raptors finally beating first round ghosts while Lowry and Demar were struggling badly. JV was most stable player PO performer and was huge in first 3 games, exactly when others struggled a lot.LTU NT will snatch Eurobasket 2029 title with this roster:
Jokubaitis, Marciulionis, Laurencikas
Indrusaitis, Brazdeikis, Rubstavicius
Buzelis, Lelevicius
Murauskas, Sirvydis
Tubelis, Krivas
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