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Finally it's smth new because a radio was already broken with the same stories: JV is dying breed, noone in Lithuania except Saras and you understand contemporary basketball, barbarian Lithuanian culture, etc. Kazlauskas not being an elite coach is smth new. I'm not a fan of using a word "elite", but a coach who was one of the best in Europe deserves to be called like that. CSKA that had Kirilenko and elite roster to win EL went for Kazlauskas exactly because he was one of the best coaches in Europe. Greece NT thought the same. About his influence: when he came to China according to him he had to change things mentally a lot because young players were too respectful to older and etc but he did that and China could play high level basketball. That's obviously was a big influence. Anyway, Kazlauskas's career: teams he coached and achievements he had says a lot - definitely enough to call him an elite coach even if i'm not used to use this word.
I don't like an idea to compare him with Saras. Jasikevicius is coaching only several years. He has a huge potential but exactly at his age Kazlaskas's Zalgiris won EL title. Let many years come to compare them.
I like Saras (who doesn't in Lithuania?) but you acting like a fanboy threating him already the best coach in Europe and underrating such huge one like Kazlauskas in comparison with Saras. So far he coached only poor Zalgiris. To become the best coach won't be easy at all. Let's say why you think he should do better than Itoudis who managed to integrate Mike James and whose CSKA so far played an elite basketball without downfalls and won title?
Finally it's smth new because a radio was already broken with the same stories: JV is dying breed, noone in Lithuania except Saras and you understand contemporary basketball, barbarian Lithuanian culture, etc. Kazlauskas not being an elite coach is smth new. I'm not a fan of using a word "elite", but a coach who was one of the best in Europe deserves to be called like that. CSKA that had Kirilenko and elite roster to win EL went for Kazlauskas exactly because he was one of the best coaches in Europe. Greece NT thought the same. About his influence: when he came to China according to him he had to change things mentally a lot because young players were too respectful to older and etc but he did that and China could play high level basketball. That's obviously was a big influence. Anyway, Kazlauskas's career: teams he coached and achievements he had says a lot - definitely enough to call him an elite coach even if i'm not used to use this word.
I don't like an idea to compare him with Saras. Jasikevicius is coaching only several years. He has a huge potential but exactly at his age Kazlaskas's Zalgiris won EL title. Let many years come to compare them.
I like Saras (who doesn't in Lithuania?) but you acting like a fanboy threating him already the best coach in Europe and underrating such huge one like Kazlauskas in comparison with Saras. So far he coached only poor Zalgiris. To become the best coach won't be easy at all. Let's say why you think he should do better than Itoudis who managed to integrate Mike James and whose CSKA so far played an elite basketball without downfalls and won title?
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