Originally posted by Hepcat
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In an effort to understand the thinking of the coaching staff I decided to undertake the exercise of comparing the play of Ignas Sargiūnas with the play of Dovydas Giedraitis over a longer and thus more statistically significant period of time. The most exact and thus best comparison available is their averages per game from the 2021-22 LKL season:
PLAYER | GM | MIN | PTS | 2PT% | 3PT% | FT% | AS | ST | T/O | EFF |
Sargiūnas | 29 | 26:49 | 12.4 | 55.8 | 29.6 | 84.8 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 11.2 |
Giedraitis | 36 | 22:43 | 8.0 | 53.7 | 39.6 | 85.0 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 7.9 |
The only measures in which Giedraitis looks better are ball security, i.e. turnovers, and three point shooting accuracy. Sargiūnas three point accuracy was in fact so low in the 2021-22 season that I'm tempted to label him more than a bit of a chucker which perhaps gives us a clue to the thinking of the coaching staff. But then again if they wanted to eschew chuckers, why did they take Deividas Sirvydis who's been toiling in a league which encourages chucking for the past three seasons? Their thinking still still doesn't make any sense to me.
What's clear though is that the three players who graduated to the main camp were preselected before the friendlies against Jordan.

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