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Why then all Zalgiris fans are so happy? No way in the past Zalgiris would secure a leader who provided that much in EL. Francisco is among top10 EL guards this season. Who you think Zalgiris could sign instead of him? It would be crazy not to resign him if it's possible.
The main failure was bringing Walker and the way Trinchieri treated all that situation. Also, Manek and Mitchell were useless. Add here Williams who was supposed to be the among the best players and you get minus three foreigners which is very bad. In addition, front court is pretty weak.
Francisko was the least problem here. He was very good in general and amazing in some games. And you underrate him saying that he can't pass - he averages 4.3 ast.
Generally, I always considered Trichieri as a fairly solid coach, but I didn't like him in this EL season. I think that Zalgiris could look and do not worse with Maksvytis.
I agree with what you say, it's just that my point is - let's not underrate the down side of Francisco. Zalgiris often sucks at ball movement and this guy is the main reason why cause he's with the ball the most time. I even think Zalgiris would be in better position if Iggy tried to close more games and surely such player as Sirvydis would be much better cause often he just stands open and there's no elite passers on the team. Ulanovas still the best passer on the team. So while it's OK to assume Francisco is not a problem and Zalgiris has to improve other positions I would still need a guard who can truly play make. Francisco can't do it and assists number doesn't say much anyway. Some great ball movers not necessary collect tons of assists and Francisco is just not a great ball mover.
Trinchieri tried to go for the highest upside of the team. Like everyone plays limited role, but utilizes it's time well, but this didn't work. He had to establish better hierarchy and Brazdeikis had to play bigger role here, and even Sirvydis. he had to unleash Brazdeikis from the start, give him freedom, he had to be OK with his early struggle. Yeah, I agree that Trinchieri screwed, but also Zalgiris management screwed again.