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Lithuanians in Euroleague

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And again, just pleasure to watch how Sirvydis gets to the FT line or makes lay ups. He always finds ways to cause trouble with his developed euro step and change of pace. I admit I didn't expect him to be that slippery, sneaky and flexible with the ball in his hands at the beginning of the season. Didn't think he will evaluate his slashing game to this level. Hope he can bring quite a bit of that to the NT as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIS1hyBEzAA&ab_channel=DeividoSirvydžiofanai
 
i remember comparing sirvydis to grigonis and im going to stick with it. they both got some differences but overall they are similar players. however sirvydis ceiling is probably much higher just because he's much more gifted than grigonis physically
 
zalias said:
i remember comparing sirvydis to grigonis and im going to stick with it. they both got some differences but overall they are similar players. however sirvydis ceiling is probably much higher just because he's much more gifted than grigonis physically
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How are they similar players?
 
shooting guards who score majority of their points from 3 and have some ability to drive to the rim and create for others while being weak defensively. sirvydis is just more aggresive.and talented
 
zalias said:
shooting guards who score majority of their points from 3 and have some ability to drive to the rim and create for others while being weak defensively. sirvydis is just more aggresive.and talented
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Somehow I don't like the comparison. Now I see that Sirvydis is evolving into very versatile player while Grigonis is a shooter. I don't like the comparison cause Grigonis has very limited slashing ability, slow first step and overall nothing special in terms of going inside. In playoffs Sirvydis shot as many twos and threes and he was heading to the FTs line constantly. So his game was more based on slashing. Sirvydis is also an amazing off ball player. Not only going aggressively off the staggers, which Grigonis can do too, but he's a dominant and smart cutter too which Grigonis isn't. Sirvydis is more athletic and tougher player. I mean he has better body, more dominant physicality flat out. Sirvydis is much more of a contact player, even bruiser at times in his drives, Grigonis is pretty allergic to contact cause he just doesn't have enough of explosiveness.

I like Musa comparison much more when it comes to Sirvydis.
 
So it seems that this the frames of next season:

Francisko, Lekavicius,
Rayjon Tucker, Sirvydis, D. Giedraitis
Mat Mitchel, Butkevicius
Foreigner, Ulanovas, Manek
Foreigner, Birutis

FOA, I'm not sure S. Francisco is good enough to be a starter, but hopefully. Besides, Lukas provided in LKL in surprising fashion, maybe he'll have better EL season too, but there's huge question cause he sucked in EL last season. Rather weak position.

It's really important for Zalgiris to sign so explosive SG as Tucker. That would be great. Knowing that Sirvydis I think will be good as a back up (both SG and SF depending on a need) and D. Giedraitis will step one more step forward, I would find SG position very convincing.

Mitchel should be solid and if Butkevicius is healthy, the position is OK (now slower Ulanovas in this position and Sirvydis as well). Solid.

Position 4 definitely needs some-one more next Manek and Ulanovas. Some-one bigger and physical. They should consider Tubelis, but ideally some-one experienced. Too soon to tell.

New solid center + Birutis would be solid.

I think risky, but might be very interesting roster with Tucker in. Francisco, Tucker, Sirvydis would combine quite a bit of talent and such players as Lekavicius, D. Giedraitis can surely help some too. So the backcourt would be nice if everything works as expected. But on other hand, many players into transition to EL and that's tricky.
 
Straight forward said:
So it seems that this the frames of next season:

Francisko, Lekavicius,
Rayjon Tucker, Sirvydis, D. Giedraitis
Mat Mitchel, Butkevicius
Foreigner, Ulanovas, Manek
Foreigner, Birutis

FOA, I'm not sure S. Francisco is good enough to be a starter, but hopefully. Besides, Lukas provided in LKL in surprising fashion, maybe he'll have better EL season too, but there's huge question cause he sucked in EL last season. Rather weak position.

It's really important for Zalgiris to sign so explosive SG as Tucker. That would be great. Knowing that Sirvydis I think will be good as a back up (both SG and SF depending on a need)....
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Well going from a starter with Lietkabelis to a backup would certainly be a step backward for Deividas Sirvydis' skills development.

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no euroleague team would offer him a starting role and zalgiris is known for switching up their starters nearly every game. if sirvydis oufperforms his competition he could very well end up being a starter even next season.
 
Sirvydis and Zalgiris is done deal 2+1. Nice.

Now I hope Lietkabelis signs Rubstavicius and he will cook in Eurocup.
 
A gain for Žalgiris that's a loss for Lietkabelis is not by definition "nice" you know.

Plus I really don't like the very real possibility that Žalgiris may well have been tampering with a player still under contract to another LKL team. There should be LKL sanctions against such behaviour. Tampering isn't allowed in any pro league in North America. The prohibition is strictly enforced and penalties are severe.

The Lithuanian Parliament should actually pass a law making tampering with a player still under contract an indictable offense/felony. Such a law would automatically protect Lithuanian clubs from encroachment across Europe because reciprocity in the EU is in force and those charged with criminal offences are extradited across borders.

:(
 
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Respect for Rokas Giedraitis skipping tournament in the capital of innocent children and women rapists and killers. And fuck Zvezda for going there.
 
I'm guessing the tournament to which you're referring was being held in Moscow rather than Peking, Havana, Tehran, Kabul or Caracas (or even Ottawa).

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sirvydis with 11.5pgg in 2 games against euroleague teams. small sample size but it doesnt look like he needs another year to be ready
 
zalias said:
sirvydis with 11.5pgg in 2 games against euroleague teams. small sample size but it doesnt look like he needs another year to be ready
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Unleashes 8 shots per game in around 18 minutes. I think Trinch system for Sirvydis is really good fit, he doesn't want players hesitating and it seems that Sirvydis feels pretty comfortable driving too. Iggi looks good as well. I think there will be some obvious up and downs in Sirvydis performances, but there's zero question he's ready for EL.
 
How about Sirvydis? Dude's second best Zalgiris' scorer after 2 games, 12,5ppg in 18mpg, 66.7% from 2 and 38.5% from 3. Dude has it. And I would say he should be allowed to go down hill with the ball even more, so sneaky crafty with his hesitations, euro steps and still that's a 204cm dude with a craft doing this. Early in the season, but I have Sirvuha as better player than Iggy already. Dude's just has more consistent shooting profile, much higher IQ and overall I think more talented. Iggy just has an edge in terms of athleticism, but that's it basically.

Seems like Sirvuha can be one of the leaders. He just came to EL as it was his home long time ago. Meaning he can explode with some big games this season. He already consistent present and can only grow from there.

And how about D. Giedraitis playing 27mpg, Trinch loves him, no-one plays as nearly much as him, that's what it means to have uber elite defense, but our "fizrukas" off course didn't realize that and better took his ass burned by PR midgets, it's Kazys who deserves Trinch rant TBH :D. Trinch is a fuckup mind person, but he defines the roles perfectly and he understands talent perfectly. If Trinchieri would take NT as a head coach I would know he would deal with our TALENT absolutely spot on. He would understand each and every player just how it should be, evaluate their capabilities very spot on and no bullshit as under Maksvytis would ever happen, not even close. But we live in our trashy coaches reality and they would bring they scrubby minds all the time. There's only Jasikevicius, bet he doesn't want to work (at least yet).

There's three dudes who take tons of shots in Zalgiris so far. Francisco with 21 shots in 2 games, Iggy with 19 and Sirvuha with 16. I wouldn't be shocked if Sirvydis will be most consistent player from all these three. Wallace has to step up though, he has been taken as a scorer and main PG essentially.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ak8L3EEW58&ab_channel=DeividoSirvyd%C5%BE iofanai
 
giedraitis with 15 points and great defense, if he keeps this up he can reach normantas level one day
 
Remember when I was preaching that Giedraitis will show more offense with time. That's the version I had in mind. He puts things together. He was smooth as silk as 16yo with nasty euro steps, hesi moves, nice direction changing bounces of one leg (left handed finishes) and he can shoot. So far crazy numbers in EL % - 73.7%/64,7%/80%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUkB5Vdrag&ab_channel=15min
 
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