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So the rumor is that Sirvydis looks good with reserve NT. Exhibition will show more, but I think he's nearly a lock since Radzevicius out with an injury. Maybe Sirvydis can at least partially solve the lack of true shooters since Grigonis out. It's good that Tubelis will join NT. If he won't prevail against Maldunas and Tarolis it will be very disappointing case let's face both latter guys are not even close to be true NT material and definitely have no future. The lack of such defenders as Butkevicius, Radzevicius at 3 will force Maksvytis to push Sedekerskisa at 3 when he will need more defense and hopefully these days Kuzminskas feels more natural at 4.[
I see 4 main problems of this upcoming NT. No proper back up PG (most annoying to me). Lack of true shooters (lack of Grigonis). Lack of defensive glue guys (Butkevicius), no definite answers at 4 (specially if Sedekerskis will have to play 3 a lot).
I agree. While it's tough for me to be optimistic at this point, we'll see.
My pre-exibition stage prediction of final roster is this:
Jokubaitis, D. Giedraitis
Brazdeikis, Dimsa, M. Normantas
Sedekerskis, Sirvydis
Kuzminskas, Tubelis, Bendzius
Valanciunas, Motiejunas
I just refuse to incorporate Kariniauskas, even if he has basically red carpet under current conditions being the only nominal PG after Jokubaitis (assuming coaches will afraid to go with 21yo Marciulionis as a back up for still 22yo Jokubaitis). I hate the idea of such players running the NT.
Uggghhhh. I can't let you continue spouting nonsense about Dovis Giedraitis unchallenged. On my part I hate the idea of such players as D. Giedraitis being anywhere near the national team let alone at a key position at which they don't normally play. The 0.8 EFF Giedraitis registered over an average of 8:30 minutes per Euroleague game in 2022-23 is why he got only the 8:30 minutes of court time per game from his coach. And 4.6 EFF over an average of 15:54 minutes per LKL game isn't exactly impressive either. He may have the potential to get better of course. If and when he does, I'll change my mind.
But why you keep touting him bewilders me. (I'm not impressed by scout speak, good release, good first step, etc.) Yeah, yeah, he has a good game every once in a while but so what? You can't extrapolate from a good game while ignoring a multitude of bad ones. Effectiveness/quality comes out in the numbers over time.

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