So, Velicka's performance against France perfectly reflected his recent improvements and spots that he still has to work on. 5 TOs surely screwed Velicka's impact a bit, and he still is too careless with the ball and has some decision making issues. Some of those TOs were the cause of the lack of chemistry between players BTW, but he still goes up and down in terms of the decision making. Couple of brilliant passes, but then forced passes leading to turnover. TOs is the problem in both Bundesliga 4,3, and Fiba EuroCup Challenge 3,3.
Nevertheless, I think I've seen most confident Velicka in the NT thus far. His three looks better. He never will be a good shooter probably, but today I can see that it can be his tool at PROs. He's 42.3% in Bundesliga, 40.7% in FIBA EuroCup Challenge. And then his assists rates are going off the charts basically this season - 8 assists in 26min Bundesliga and 6.5as in 26min FECC. So the fact that he was dishing the ball off the p'n'r is not a surprise at all. 7 dimes and it could be more as we struggled to score inside and else were.
Velicka is progressing. He's not a natural point guard and not a natural decision maker, but he has a sense for passing, he has good size, athleticism and improving three. Dominant slashing was already there always with him. So if he can cut his TOs rate a little bit (I think will remain a bit wild as say Kaukenas was all his career basically), and to continue to sharpen up his finishing game, he can be very interesting secondary guard option for the NT and likely very useful piece for the Windows as they will remain to be important. I can see Velicka sticking in EC or CL for upcoming 2-3 seasons, and then around 25-26 he might be playing even in EL. Meaning in upcoming years he will be good option for the windows.
Regarding senior NT, I could see him as that third string PG/COMBO potential option. In my book, there will be 2 obvious pure PGs - Jokubaitis and Marciulionis. Their package are at another level. But I can see Velicka competing with D. Giedraitis for third string PG spot. The latter has better package (even if Dovydas is more of 2 and Arnas more of a 1, but generally both are COMBOs), but knowing Dovydas' injury issues and some other circumstances, I can see tournaments where Velicka will be needed going deep off the bench.