Group D, Day 2, Lithuania vs Canada

[Straight forward2]

sashikas, you right, I overreacted, but still we even were far from that quality we showed in most of preparation games. Criticism won't hurt.

yessuz, no doubt about it. But at the same time it's important how the team works generally. Tonight's performance didn't give to many optimism for the upcoming game.

Ashtrusis_dantis, so you're saying Kemzūra did everything right and there's nothing to improve? Off course, this team has positive sides compered to Poland's, but at the same time there's plenty of negative - rebounds are big problem, shooters are almost gone, not too many mistakes, but not too many creativity or p&r plays as well. Jasaitis, Seibutis, Andriuškevičius (I guess), Gecevičius are still in reserve.

 

[Blackway2]

I think everyone here is underrating Canada. We should give some credit to them too, we are not that strong to frown at close victories.

 

[Ashtrusis_dantis2]

Ashtrusis_dantis, so you're saying Kemzūra did everything right and there's nothing to improve? Off course, this team has positive sides compered to Poland's, but at the same time there's plenty of negative - rebounds are big problem, shooters are almost gone, not too many mistakes, but not too many creativity or p&r plays as well. Jasaitis, Seibutis, Andriuškevičius (I guess), Gecevičius are still in reserve.

No i am not saying that - of course it is a lot to improve. But problem is not in that. Seems you want players to become somebody else - Jasikevicius, Siskauskas and so on. So lets be clear - they are not. About creativity - who in this team can be creative like Jaska??? We don't have such creativity and won't have. I think Butautas problem in Poland was that he didn't understand it he tried to play same game like these new players would be the same like Jasikevicius generation. Not so much creativity but a lot of aggression because we have such players who are not very creative but aggressive - Kleiza, Maciulis, Seibutis, Pocius and so on. About shooting - what coach of national team should do with that? Go and shoot himself? That are not kids who you can learn to shoot. Gecevicius has mentality problems so should we keep him on field and let it cost a game? It is not long season where you can keep player on field with weaker teams. About rebounds - yes it is, our main center has injury remember? But we won rebounds today.
You are right about reserves, but give credits to Canada they played well for 25mins - were shooting hard shots, playing clever game. And i am much sure about this team after this game they have character and we won't have such bad day for our shooters everyday.
And yes i think Kemzura is going right way, not everything is perfect, but when it was?

 

[lafa2]

to lose a game just for the sake of getting confidence back to Gecevicius - sorry, no go. Gecevicius was main SG in Rytas and no matter how he played, Kurtinaitis didn't have choice, but to keep him on court, while Kemzura can shuffle players, to get a mix, that works for the moment. Kestutis could leave Gecevicius for a while on court yesterday and he did, but not today, and we all saw that that wasn't the worst decision of the our coach.

 

[septynix2]

Lithuanian NT in this game was somewhat of a paradox. With Javtokas injured and Andriuskevicius apparently so useless Kemzura didn't even begin to contemplate about giving him even a few mins of play, our "hobbits", as someone rightly said, had no place under the opponent's basket. To make things more interesting no one, especially in the first half of the game, could hit 3 pointers. And yet Lithuania won. I mean that just sounds wrong. Were did all the points come from? What, did Delininkaitis shoot 40 FTs or smth? I kinda remember Kleiza scoring from somewhere, but I just assumed that these were rage and alcohol induced hallucinations.

 

[Miškinis2]

Last minutes of the game:


Also some highlights: