Lithuanian Point Guards

[Shawshank]

Velicka with another big game, 18pts, 9assists, 2 steals, 8 fouls draw, 22ef. Deserved a spot in Kaunas' NT camp or not? Off course, we can't have five point guards in the camp, but he's playing some ball in Germany already.

Nt team will have 3 weeks prep only no time to bring 20+players,Maskoliunas should bring max 15-16 best players and no f***ing arround its Olympic summer.

Last window decided clearly that if extra 4 PG will be called to camp it will be Kariniauskas.

[Straight forward]

Nt team will have 3 weeks prep only no time to bring 20+players,Maskoliunas should bring max 15-16 best players and no f***ing arround its Olympic summer.

Last window decided clearly that if extra 4 PG will be called to camp it will be Kariniauskas.

Yeah, I agree. But I would pay some to see Kariniauskas running Juventus for 34min and Velicka running Lietkabelis for 34min in this year's LKL semifinals That would be a spectacle.

[Hepcat]

Nt team will have 3 weeks prep only no time to bring 20+players,Maskoliunas should bring max 15-16 best players and no f***ing arround its Olympic summer.

Last window decided clearly that if extra 4 PG will be called to camp it will be Kariniauskas.

I agree that Vaidas Kariniauskas should definitely be invited to camp, but with Mantas Kalnietis and Lukas Lekavičius that still only makes three.

When it comes to young fellows, I'm still leaning more toward Arnas Velička than Rokas Jokubaitis. Not only is Velička a year older, but he's simply been playing better.

[Straight forward]

Dude, Hepcat, you're missing one point here. There's no chance at all that Jokubaitis wouldn't be in the camp. It's written into a stone. It's done.

[Mindozas]

I agree that Vaidas Kariniauskas should definitely be invited to camp, but with Mantas Kalnietis and Lukas Lekavičius that still only makes three.

When it comes to young fellows, I'm still leaning more toward Arnas Velička than Rokas Jokubaitis. Not only is Velička a year older, but he's simply been playing better.

Again you are judging by some stats and absolutely forget strength of clubs, it's like night and day

[Hepcat]

Dude, Hepcat, you're missing one point here. There's no chance at all that Jokubaitis wouldn't be in the camp. It's written into a stone. It's done.

I'm all in favour of Jokubaitis being invited to camp. I just don't think he's ready for the Olympic team yet as a twenty year old.

[Hepcat]

Again you are judging by some stats and absolutely forget strength of clubs, it's like night and day.

My suspicion here is that Jokubaitis is getting the old Žalgiris boost from Lithuanian fans. Because Žalgiris is so widely beloved in Lithuania (outside of Vilnius of course), there is a distinct tendency to overrate Žalgiris players. Were Jokubaitis compiling the same Euroleague stats for Milan instead of Žalgiris, he'd have been noticed but he wouldn't be considered a shoo-in for training camp. And had he been compiling the same LKL stats for Pieno Žvaigždės as he has for Žalgiris, nobody would have even noticed.

[Mindozas]

My suspicion here is that Jokubaitis is getting the old Žalgiris boost from Lithuanian fans. Because Žalgiris is so widely beloved in Lithuania (outside of Vilnius of course), there is a distinct tendency to overrate Žalgiris players. Were Jokubaitis compiling the same Euroleague stats for Milan instead of Žalgiris, he'd have been noticed but he wouldn't be considered a shoo-in for training camp. And had he been compiling the same LKL stats for Pieno Žvaigždės as he has for Žalgiris, nobody would have even noticed.

My suspicion here is that you simply don't know the players good enough, so now you try to blame us being biased, mate I don't remember you blaming me on smth like that lately when I said Kalnietis is still our main PG over Lekavicius or the same Jokubaitis, I don't remember you telling me the same when I said Birutis or Miniotas is infront of Blazevic in NT windows and etc etc

[Hepcat]

My suspicion here is that you simply don't know the players good enough, so now you try to blame us being biased, mate

That though requires you to presuppose that for some arcane personal reasons I'm biased against Jokubaitis. That's simply not true. I hope he becomes a real good one - but I think that's going to take another year or two.

[Mindozas]

That though requires you to presuppose that for some arcane personal reasons I'm biased against Jokubaitis. That's simply not true. I hope he becomes a real good one - but I think that's going to take another year or two.

I don't think you are biased towards anyone I think you are just not very well informed about some European leagues our players are playing and do the same mistake comparing their stats head-to-head. But there's nothing wrong with not knowing it, we are here to share the info. Overall Germany basketball league nowadays is better than Lithuanian one, but Jokubaitis still plays in Zalgiris, which is simply much stronger than Velicka's current club. We could compare them directly only if Velicka would play for Bayern Munich or Alba Berlin.
Overall, both of them still need few years to blossom, but currently Jokubaitis plays in higher level and does that not bad at all despite lot of up and downs which is normal for his age

[Svajunas]

All 3 of these dudes are meeting our expectations nicely. Seems that in couple years we will have some heated discussions over who should be the main PG etc ...

[Straight forward]

Too much random shots to boost video's size, but here's 18yo Marciulionis' highlights in Champions League:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqceXOaBUao

[Straight forward]

Velicka's highlights in French league. Stone cold killer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCExaHU7XBs

Marciulionis says right words, pretty good English for 18yo. Now time to back word up with blood and sweat. Surprised his basketball hero is Magic and not Rooney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3NZlvgpMb4

[Straight forward]

Time for Marciulionis to reunite with Tubelis. Wildcats needs guards, they basically only have Kriisa. For Marciulionis it would be perfect environment. Connection with Tubelis, Euro friendly backcourt with Kriisa, coach who brought Domas to NCAA. Wouldn't be surprised if they would be fishing Augustas:

https://zonazealots.com/2021/04/20/need-another-guard-arizona-basketball/

[Toruko]

Is there interest or is it just wishful thinking of you.