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  • Originally posted by Franz View Post
    Shved will never improve as a basketball player.
    What does that suppose to mean? He is headcase for sure, but he is the biggest talent we have since Khryapa. Did you watch him last season? He was simply great during the playoffs.
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    So, no Likhodey and now no Shved for Russia. Well, Blatt's defensive emphasis is more than understandable, Kolesnikov and Voronov are good guys, great fighters and, yeah, nice defenders, but still I suppose we could have much more promising and creative options in our fringe players.

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    • After the game vs Ivory Coast David Blatt said that he was going to leave Russian NT after WC.

      Главный тренер сборной России Дэвид Блатт сказал, что уйдет со своего поста по завершении чемпионата мира.

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      • Originally posted by Dreamcatcher View Post
        After the game vs Ivory Coast David Blatt said that he was going to leave Russian NT after WC.

        http://www.sports.ru/basketball/72737322.html
        Hmm,i wonder what direction they choose.
        Look locally ,where i see limited options , but not necessary bad, or just go for the biggest name available,providing they have funds for that.
        My personal view would be - to get Kazlauskas,and to build the team of russian assistants around him.It is probably unrealistic,but i wish the team well
        And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Zalgiris 17 times in a row.

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        • Actually I'm quite surprised by Blatt's patience

          1) Russian NT assistant coach Pashutin wasn't allowed to Turkey, because UNICS management don't like it, Russian basketball federation didn't do a sh!t about it

          2) Russian NT official scout wasn't allowed to Turkey, because **** management don't like it, Russian basketball federation didn't do a sh!t about it

          3) Russian NT key player Khryapa sidelined , because CSKA management don't want him to play

          Bottom line: head of Russian basketball federation Chernov "promised" top4 for Russian NT and looks like his promise's fulfillment tied with his future as a head of RBF, on the other side CSKA head Vatutin sabotages NT to get Chernov out of RFB ...

          Looks like Blatt got finally tired of all this Machiavellian politics behind his back

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          • Russia NT 2011

            Sergey Bazarevich may replace David Blatt as Russian National Team Head Coach - Jan 27, 2011 (by Eurobasket )
            Decision on future of Russian National team coach will be on 1st February. In case that David Blatt t leaves the head coach position, it is possible to have a russian coach. President of Russian Federation mr. Aleksandr Krasnenkov said that if coach is having two duties, club and national team, he would prefer that he is a coaching a PBL (Russian Professional League). Rumors from Russia are that new candidate could be Sergey Bazarevich (agency: Alti Sport ). Sergey Bazarevich (agency: Alti Sport ) most promising russian candidate is coaching Dynamo Moscow, also known as a former russian basketball star, first russian player in NBA, all world tournament 5 in 1993. Dynamo Moscow the only team playing with only Russian players, last season big surprise with 4th place. This year with a smallest budget in the league managed to upset a leader of PBL Unics Kazan with a home win last week. Dynamo Moscow is having the last spot for the play off at the moment. Sergey Bazarevich (agency: Alti Sport ) is coaching four national team players who were playing in Turkey in the world cup.
            Die Liebe wird eine Krankheit, wenn man sie als eine Heilung sieht
            Artificial Nature

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            • It looks like Blatt stays.

              Yesterday the board of Russian basketball federation voted unanimously for Blatt to stay.

              src: http://www.basket.ru/news/article/on...ng/?newart=360

              Blatt is expected to respond to the offer within 3-5 days.

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              • Today I've read that R.Kurtinaitis is candidate to coach Russian NT.
                I'm on twitter

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                • Regardless of whether Blatt decides to stay, I can't stop wondering about Russian coaches and functionaries contantly stating that they don't want a foreigner to coach the Russian NT as it would not be a good solution. This is so incredibly outlandish as it was a foreigner - Blatt - who came, saw and won the European Championship. The subsequent Olympics were a failure in a tough group as Russia was basically missing its key player in Khryapa and the next WBC and EBC Blatt squeezed more out of this team than could be expected. None of these "experts" has reached anything with a club team or a national team with the exception of Sergei Belov who brought home three medals (two silver and one bronze), when he could count on a very strong roster with All-European players on every position.
                  burnstein

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                  • Regardless who the coach is, the starting PG and leader and go-to guy of the team should be no else than Aleksey Shved
                    Sexuality when one reaches their 30s is either mainstream or sick, but no matter what, it isn't pure

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                    • 01/02/2011
                      RUS – Blatt: ‘Russia will compete no matter which players show up’

                      TEL AVIV (EuroBasket 2011) - David Blatt knows what it takes to win a gold medal at a EuroBasket.

                      He led Russia to the top of the podium four years ago in Spain and would love to do it again in Lithuania this summer.

                      But to have a realistic chance of doing that, Blatt, who watched the EuroBasket 2011 draw on Sunday and saw Russia fall into a Group D with Slovenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Georgia and Ukraine, needs his best players to represent the country again, just as Spain need Pau Gasol and Greece need Dimitris Diamantidis.

                      "All of the teams are one team with one group of guys, and another team with another group of guys," Blatt said to FIBA.com.

                      "You saw Spain last year without Pau Gasol.

                      "With all due respect to Spain, they're one of the very, very best teams in Europe, but where are they in Europe without Gasol and (Jose) Calderon? Let's be honest, and they have a lot of players.â€

                      Spain reached the Quarter-Finals at the 2010 FIBA World Championship but lost to Serbia on a long three-pointer by Milos Teodosic at the buzzer.

                      "The reality is that at this level, if you want to be a top team, then you want to have the top players,†Blatt said.

                      For this reason, Blatt can’t venture a guess as to where Russia will end up at the EuroBasket in Lithuania.

                      If he has one group of his players, Blatt’s team would be among the best on the continent.

                      With another, like the squad that overachieved at the FIBA World Championship in Turkey, Russia are among a group of teams that would do well just to reach the last Quarter-Finals.

                      “I was very proud of what we did at the World Championship. To finish seventh without all of our players was great.

                      "We won six games out of nine games.

                      "That's not an easy thing to do at a World Championship.

                      "We beat better teams. We beat teams we were supposed to beat. We lost to the U.S. in a very well played game, and we lost to Turkey by nine points in Turkey which is as good as anybody did (except Team USA in the Final) and we lost to Argentina, which is a high-level team that finished above us in the standings.â€

                      First things first

                      Blatt has not signed a contract extension with Russia, something that seemed unlikely last year at the World Championship, but Russia’s federation and the new president, Alexander Krasnenkov, have made no secret of their desire to keep the 51-year-old in the job.

                      "Right now, the direction is very positive and I am in serious discussions with the new president," Blatt said.

                      "I'll shortly be going back to Russia to meet with him.

                      "Right now, all the indications are very positive that I'll continue."

                      Therefore, he watched the EuroBasket draw in Lithuania with a lot of interest.

                      Bulgaria’s coach, Rosen Barchovski, said he was happy to have avoided Spain, Turkey and tournament hosts Lithuania in Group A.

                      Only the top three sides will progress from each group to the next phase.

                      Blatt doesn’t think it wise to become too excited about a draw.

                      "You know," he said, "because I've been doing this for a while. I've been at a number of EuroBaskets, an Olympic Games and a World Championship, and I think that the gifts of the winter time can turn out to be the punishments of the summer time, and vice-versa - you just don't know.

                      "You can't know at this stage.

                      “It's a little premature to either celebrate or to lament your condition at this point and I think that all coaches would do very well to be calm at this point and just see how the teams shape up, who comes and who doesn't, before they start getting overly concerned one way or another."

                      Nevertheless, Blatt wasn’t unhappy that the basketball gods had placed his team in Group D.

                      "Our draw is even,†he said, “a lot of evenly balanced teams.

                      “But it's a group that I would hope we'd find a way to advance from and that's the important thing in the First Round.â€

                      Avoiding Israel

                      Blatt is the coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv and calls Israel home.

                      Arik Shivek's Israeli team ended up in Group B, and Blatt was relieved.

                      "Honestly, I am," he said.

                      "I didn't want to go against them again. I did in EuroBasket, Spain, 2007. It was not a comfortable situation for me."

                      He then laughed and said: "It wasn't comfortable for them, either, because we won by 35.

                      "I was happy at the end of the day that they qualified out of that group, by the way. That made me feel better. It wasn't comfortable playing them, nor beating them by 35.

                      "But it was a happy moment for me when they qualified."

                      So what can Europe expect of Russia at the EuroBasket? Might this team go on another great run and reach the Final, which would qualify the team for the London Olympics?

                      "For me, the most important thing is to see which team I have because over the last three years, even though we have played well and had good results, we have not had our top players come, or they haven’t been available because of injury,†Blatt said.

                      "I'll be very interested to see over these next few months who we'll have at our disposal and then I'll be able to comment more specifically on the draw that we had and whether or not we can advance and in what condition."

                      The return of naturalized point guard Holden would be celebrated.

                      He hit the game-winning basket against Spain in 2007 and remains a leading point guard in Russia with CSKA Moscow.

                      While he hasn’t played since the 2008 Olympics, the Pennsylvania native hasn’t retired.

                      "I asked him every year but he politely refuses so I don't know that he'll change his mind," Blatt said.

                      "I'll certainly ask him as I always do. I'm waiting anxiously to see what is going to happen with the NBA lockout because that will directly influence some of our players.

                      " I would strongly hope that Andrei would come back and join us after a few years of not participating and that Timofey Mozgov would come back and play as he has done the last two years.

                      "We have a big concern with Viktor Khryapa, who unfortunately has not played this year (at CSKA Moscow) except for a few minutes due to a very difficult and chronic ankle condition that he has.

                      "He may not play again this year, so I don't know what kind of condition that puts him in this year with the national team.

                      "So we're still waiting to see who is going to come and play with us. We could be one team in one group, or we can be a team that is the fighting, overachieving and fun team of the last few years without Khryapa, without Holden and without Kirilenko and just do the best that we can.

                      "I will say this, which is what we've done the past few years without the stars, that we will be a competitor. We'll come and we'll play and we won't be an easy match for anyone."
                      Die Liebe wird eine Krankheit, wenn man sie als eine Heilung sieht
                      Artificial Nature

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                      • Kirilenko confirmed that he'll play for Russia in EC and will be aiming highest places. He will join the camp after holidays, on the 1st of August.

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                        • I wonder if people here know/remember the story how Blatt became Russian coach instead of being Israeli NT coach... lol.
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                          • Originally posted by ip84 View Post
                            I wonder if people here know/remember the story how Blatt became Russian coach instead of being Israeli NT coach... lol.
                            OMG! It was bureaucratic stupidity at its best!
                            burnstein

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                            • Originally posted by goga78 View Post
                              OMG! It was bureaucratic stupidity at its best!
                              Don,t worry guys,once David eventually will lead Israel NT...

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                              • Originally posted by vaslover View Post
                                Don,t worry guys,once David eventually will lead Israel NT...
                                At least I was able to witness the 2007 run by his Russian NT
                                burnstein

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