So we have a new season of LKL starting. Seems that it should be the best one yet. Teams are improving and this we year we have at least five teams that will fight for first 3 places. The higher overall level of our league is very beneficial for Lithuanian basketball as a brand.
Its nice to see Lietkabelis emerging as a obvious offseason winner. Team seems to be very competitive and a win against Zalgiris yesterday just proves that they mean business this year. Selling record amount of season tickets is also encouraging looking at the future.
On the other hand Siauliai will be disappointing this year. Problems with finances and a team build for bottom 3 place.
Vytautas should be even better this year. First time they have a full roster of equal players. Two in each position. Lets see what Seskus will make of that.
If I would rank teams this year I would go something like that.
1. Zalgiris. Improved from last season in center position and slightly in guard positions. SF position remains to be blackhole. They still kept Motum...what?
2. Rytas. Improved? Probably. Remains to be seen. Giedraitis back from Siauliai, Logan is a beast, Gudaitis finaly growing? Will it all click?
3. Neptunas. Loosing their last seasons best player will cost them. Dont see any significant improvements other then Klimavicius, who still at this age is a bit of a bonehead player. Will Girdziunas be able to emerge as a constant leader?
4-5. Vytautas or Lietkabelis. Both teams improved, both won their first games against higher ranked opponents. Wouldnt be very surprised if one of those teams would finish in 3rd place.
6. Juventus. Still a good team. But didnt improve much compared to last season.
7-8. Probably Siauliai and Pienos Zvaigzdes. Nothing special about those teams. Nice to see Echodas having a significant role in Siauliai.
9-10. Dzukija. Nevezis.
Other then that. 0 improvements in game broadcasting compared to last season. They did not manage to broadcast yesterdays game between Zal and Liet.
Choosing platforms like delfi and tv3play, which are fundamentally bad, is stupid. Specialy when you have a platform like youtube, which works so much better.
Also showing last seasons premiers league games on sport1 television or other stupid tv shows like tv3 pagalbas instead of basketball in a basketball country is much more important.
So this is a number 1 place where LKL HAVE TO improve.
Its nice to see Lietkabelis emerging as a obvious offseason winner. Team seems to be very competitive and a win against Zalgiris yesterday just proves that they mean business this year. Selling record amount of season tickets is also encouraging looking at the future.
On the other hand Siauliai will be disappointing this year. Problems with finances and a team build for bottom 3 place.
Vytautas should be even better this year. First time they have a full roster of equal players. Two in each position. Lets see what Seskus will make of that.
If I would rank teams this year I would go something like that.
1. Zalgiris. Improved from last season in center position and slightly in guard positions. SF position remains to be blackhole. They still kept Motum...what?
2. Rytas. Improved? Probably. Remains to be seen. Giedraitis back from Siauliai, Logan is a beast, Gudaitis finaly growing? Will it all click?
3. Neptunas. Loosing their last seasons best player will cost them. Dont see any significant improvements other then Klimavicius, who still at this age is a bit of a bonehead player. Will Girdziunas be able to emerge as a constant leader?
4-5. Vytautas or Lietkabelis. Both teams improved, both won their first games against higher ranked opponents. Wouldnt be very surprised if one of those teams would finish in 3rd place.
6. Juventus. Still a good team. But didnt improve much compared to last season.
7-8. Probably Siauliai and Pienos Zvaigzdes. Nothing special about those teams. Nice to see Echodas having a significant role in Siauliai.
9-10. Dzukija. Nevezis.
Other then that. 0 improvements in game broadcasting compared to last season. They did not manage to broadcast yesterdays game between Zal and Liet.
Choosing platforms like delfi and tv3play, which are fundamentally bad, is stupid. Specialy when you have a platform like youtube, which works so much better.
Also showing last seasons premiers league games on sport1 television or other stupid tv shows like tv3 pagalbas instead of basketball in a basketball country is much more important.
So this is a number 1 place where LKL HAVE TO improve.
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