IDK, maybe he didn't pay enough attention, maybe he's not good with prospects. But that is one rare thing when things got way out of hand. I'm watching Liekabelis closely and I think he is oozing with tremendous potential, let alone the fact that quite a few international bb people treat Rubstavicius as an NBA prospect. Our media is making huge strides forward, I tend to think, but at some points we still are very provincial. I listen to all possible Lithuanian podcasts basically (less regular to those who are attributed only to NBA or EL) and it's very rare occasion when I wouldn't hear some huge nonsense, some ridiculous claims. It's very very rare occasion that at least one crazy claim wouldn't take place. I still have no answer why this is the case with Lithuanian. We don't have many guys with good eye for BB. It's very strange. I read plenty of international BB media and this occasion is basically non existant there. They make more precise, much more precise claims about our players, than we locally do. I can only trust Maksvytis, Jasikevicius and partially T. Purlys (but he also tends to go with some harsh mistakes in comparing players, like he compared Murauskas with R. Giedraitis ). I may disagree with some coaching tactics or roster selection with Maksvytis, but I admit I barely ever heard him saying stupid things in press conferences, interviews. Never. And he gets away with pretty straight, spot on and yet tactful answers. Jasikevicius also is terrific scout, has terrific eye on players. That gives me hope. But the fact that I don't have a single media guy (literally) that I can fully trust is nuts. I even understood that Vysniauskas has tendency for reduction and harsh generalizations. There are 2 guys that I like - Bruzas and Leksas, but that's all. And very often they also come flat from time to time. Maybe they don't pay attention enough, IDK, but I don't have this problem with foreign scouts. They are like 99% of the cases spot on which is far less with LTU guys, far less. I have no explanation for this. Probably it has to do a lot that we are post soviet country and we drag behind very bad "school" of bb understanding....I think the problem is that current media guys grew up with old school dudes who seen only Soviet basketballl to certain extent... IDK, maybe he didn't pay enough attention, maybe he's not good with prospects. But that is one rare thing when things got way out of hand. I'm watching Liekabelis closely and I think he is oozing with tremendous potential, let alone the fact that quite a few international bb people treat Rubstavicius as an NBA prospect. Our media is making huge strides forward, I tend to think, but at some points we still are very provincial. I listen to all possible Lithuanian podcasts basically (less regular to those who are attributed only to NBA or EL) and it's very rare occasion when I wouldn't hear some huge nonsense, some ridiculous claims. It's very very rare occasion that at least one crazy claim wouldn't take place. I still have no answer why this is the case with Lithuanian. We don't have many guys with good eye for BB. It's very strange. I read plenty of international BB media and this occasion is basically non existant there. They make more precise, much more precise claims about our players, than we locally do. I can only trust Maksvytis, Jasikevicius and partially T. Purlys (but he also tends to go with some harsh mistakes in comparing players, like he compared Murauskas with R. Giedraitis ). I may disagree with some coaching tactics or roster selection with Maksvytis, but I admit I barely ever heard him saying stupid things in press conferences, interviews. Never. And he gets away with pretty straight, spot on and yet tactful answers. Jasikevicius also is terrific scout, has terrific eye on players. That gives me hope. But the fact that I don't have a single media guy (literally) that I can fully trust is nuts. I even understood that Vysniauskas has tendency for reduction and harsh generalizations. There are 2 guys that I like - Bruzas and Leksas, but that's all. And very often they also come flat from time to time. Maybe they don't pay attention enough, IDK, but I don't have this problem with foreign scouts. They are like 99% of the cases spot on which is far less with LTU guys, far less. I have no explanation for this. Probably it has to do a lot that we are post soviet country and we drag behind very bad "school" of bb understanding....I think the problem is that current media guys grew up with old school dudes who seen only Soviet basketballl to certain extent...
That's another point, more speculative and shouldn't be taken too seriously. You may disagree but Barca is very lazy and underachieving team for decades now. Even "tyrants" as Pesic and Jasikevicius can't change something that exists in Barca. It will never be most spirited and highest motor team. How I say, Barcelona is the city of love and emancipation and not competition.
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