JV will join later so they need big bodies for training more than SF. And Sirvydis needs playing practice on FIBA court
This. + Tubelis will join only on 28 too.
Summer league is a joke not real basketball, everybody there shoots just to shoot.
Guarding small guards I agree, but guarding multiple position players not just small guards Dimsa and Normantas simply have better bodies for that
Not every NT even have that small guard.2 main possible opponents in 2023 Greece and Serbia dont even have such type, after Sloukas is out.
I repeat coaches desicion putting Sirvydis and Giedraitis in other camp makes zero sense if coaching staff would see them in top 9 playoofs rotation
Radzevicius and Sajus got injury and coaches calling to main camp not Sirvydis,not Jogela but 2 PF-C types instead?
That's says to me coaches sees more problems in frontcourt positions than SF.
My guess they see Brazdeikis,Sedekerskis,Kuzminskas filling SF position minutes in main top 9 playoffs rotation
The idea of reserve NT is to give space for young talent to show themselves and to get to know with our talent pool. Sirvydis needs that. No-one knows how good he is, but he surely needs playing time, exposure. My prediction simply is that he will look good, but we'll have to wait and see.
You highly underrate Summer League. It's not easy there to standout. Plenty of NBA players and all of them are greedy and talented. The game is ISO, but if you standout you have certain skills and talent. Iggy was 18ppg in Summer League and we know his instant impact to the NT. Sirvydis (even though being older) averaged 15.5ppg and he did it in just 22,5mpg. F.e. 11th pick French Ousmane Dieng scored 15ppg in this year's SL, but he did it in 30,5mpg. Petrusev, establish 10eff kinda guy in EL, was dropping 12,5ppg in SL. Nico Mannion, established Italy's NT player, had 8,7ppg. He already is a role player for Italy and this summer his role will be even bigger. There's tons of talent is SL. Tons. Whenever Sirvydis is ready to give something to NT we'll see, but don't look down on his achievement in SL, that's hard to do.
As for Giedraitis we need him against Montenegro's American dude. We need him against USA dudes as Jalen Brunson, and you can throw him against bigger guards too. He used to play mainly SG in ACB and he was guarding best oppositions guards for Estudiantes. We can even throw him against Bogdanovic, Walkup and he will fight like a lion.
I'm OK with Normantas generally, but he has worse lateral quickness, loses concentration more often, doesn't read team defense as good as Giedraitis and makes more mental mistakes. It's good he can be pretty good at switch all defense. But generally Dimsa and Normantas are very similar. IDK if there will be huge need of those 2 similar players as DImsa obviously has an edge and will play much more. His main weapon is that he's cheeky, but he can make good and bad things with that. In LKL finals he screwed down the stretch in that do or die game generally.
I didn't mention yesterday, but a lot will depend if Tubelis is ready to be mobile 5. Our D with JV and D-Mo will be crap, let's face it. We need to have that alternative unit who could surivive defensively some stretches and to change the dynamics of some games. I think Maldunas is just a practice meat. He would be destroyed by better teams. It's on Tubelis. If Tubelis is not ready, I would even throw Sedekerskis at 5. If 203cm Garuba can play 5, then 205cm Sedekerskis can too, even if he's couple of kg lighter.
And lastly I still hope Marciulionis can surprise, even though I feel it's 1 or 2 years premature. If Kariniauskas will substitute Jokubaitis, it means probably even worse defender subs Rokas. And the worse thing that Kariniauskas is trash at both ends. To me a back up PG should be a bulldog defensively. I would actually favor Bickauskis more than Kariniauskas, with all seriousness.
