[Black Urum]

So LKL is back today!

Nevezis - Zalgiris first game of the season... does anyone know of any links?

[Sagenas]

Black Urum, on 28 September 2010 - 11:26 AM, said:

So LKL is back today!

Nevezis - Zalgiris first game of the season... does anyone know of any links?

http://www.15min.lt/tv/sport1 but you need to register and then download a player.

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Tonight:

Rytas- Nevezis
Zalgiris - Rudupis

Streams: http://sport24.lt/krepsinis

[Vilius]

straight forward, on 09 October 2010 - 11:25 AM, said:

Tonight:

Rytas- Nevezis 16:15 CET
Zalgiris - Rudupis 18:00 CET

Streams: http://sport24.lt/krepsinis

Added times.

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Rytas- Nevezis 83 - 71

Rytas: Gecevicius 25, Bajramovic 20, Newley 9 (5 assists), Valanciunas 8 (7 rebounds)
Nevezis: R. Alijevas 22, L.Brazdauskis 12, P. Beliavičius 11.

Rytas rotation was reasonable finally, but some players are obviously not in shape, specially Jomantas. Nevezis is competitive team this season while Žalgiris and Rytas had some problems against them. Alievas is nice surprise, he'll have a good season. Rytas got distance when Gecevičius was playing as a point guard, Johnson might be not enough for Euroleague, he's not very creative even if he can score when it's his night. Too bad Rytas lost Kelys, because 1 position is unpredictable in Rytas.

Rytas highlights:



Žalgiris- Rudupis 80 - 74

Žalgiris: A. Milaknis 16, Kalnietis 13, M. Pocius and Watson 11.
Rudupis: A. Juskevicius 17 (5 rebounds 6 assists), E.Želionis 15, G. Orelikas 14.

Rudupis arena is so small and so hot They have nice young players, two of them belongs to Žalgiris - Juškevičius and Lipkevičius. They can really play at home. Žalgiris' foreigners seemed to be not motivated or in bad shape, and Žalgiris will obviously need time to find their rotation and rhythm. The game was very intense and Rudupis actually had a chance there. Seems like LKL will be way more competitive this season. I enjoyed both games.

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Tonight:

Žalgiris- Juventus 18:15 CET

http://sport24.lt/krepsinis

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Lietuvos Rytas - Neptunas 75:68

Rytas: Baijramovic 18, Bjelica, 12, Gecevicius 11, Valanciunas 10
Neptunas: Bitinas, Stasys 17, Mazeika 12

Rudupis - Siauliai 95:68

Rudupis: Dainys, Lipkevicius 17, Orelikas 16, Juskevicius 14
Siauliai: Ruzgas 17, R. Harris 14, Janavicius 10

I don't remember when Siauliai lost so badly in LKL (leaving Rytas and Zalgiris aside). Didn't see the game, but that's no good result for Siauliai even in a bad day. They will sign one more big man, maybe they need time, it's completely new team. On other hand, Rudupis is great this season even if I think it was very good day for them. Hopefully, Siauliai will get their rhythm, they will play in Eurocup. Nice to see Janavicius in action in Siauliai for the first time.

[Vilius]

If you allow Dainys to score a double-double against you then your defence is very poor, lol. It seems that this might be the season when someone will knock Siauliai off their 3rd position. They need this because it would push them to try to assemble a better team next season. Besides, LKL would be more interesting then.

[Sagenas]

It may be interesting for someone: LKL teams’ average age

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P.s. today on internet you could see Žalgiris - Sakalai and Kaunas - Juventus.

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Sagenas, on 23 October 2010 - 02:38 PM, said:

It may be interesting for someone: LKL teams’ average age

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P.s. today on internet you could see Žalgiris - Sakalai and Kaunas - Juventus.

Good breakdown. On a similar note, on average how much do players on smaller teams earn? I went to a Nevezis vs Sakalai game a few years ago, it couldn't have cost more than 10 Litai for the ticket and there wasn't more than 200 people there. I couldn't figure out how they could afford to pay the players much.

[Sagenas]

Thanks. Well, it's hard for our teams to attract sponsors because every of them is by Lietuvos Rytas' and Žalgiris' side. Because of that tickets are quite expensive. Many teams have budget about ~700k Litas. Teams like Alytus, Techasas, Naglis-Adakris have smallest amount of money such as 500k Litas. Some other teams (like Perlas, Neptūnas) have budget about 1 million Litas. Šiauliai has a little bit bigger. Ah, forgot to mention that Perlas has 1 million Litas budget because they're second team of Lietuvos Rytas so they pay everything.

So, Lithuanian players here don't earn many money - that's why the most of players in LKL is youngsters and some olds. Players at their best age usually go to foreign countries. Like now, A.Aleksandrovas' made contract with Krivbasket (team from Ukrain), he is 24 years old and he averaged 20points per game last season playing in Alytus.

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Žygimantas Janavičius injured. Too bad because he had couple of great games in Šiauliai, standing as second most valuable player in LKL after few games. Hopefully he won't miss too many games of Eurocup.

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So boys and girls tomorrow we have the first battle between Žalgiris and Rytas! 16.00 CET http://www.lrytas.lt/videonews/live/

The game will be held in Kaunas. Having in mind Žalgiris is having a pretty good start of the season, they are favourites to win this game. On other hand, Rytas is playing better lately and Jasikevičius' appearance seems to have a lot of energy for the team and fans.

What I dislike about Žalgiris this year is their coach. Despite these victories in Euroleague, Žalgiris had only one damn good game against Caja Laboral. I'm wondering if Petrovič is so smart coach and keeps the best players fresh for the second half of the year, or is he so limited and so primitive as he showing right now. If the answer is latter than I wouldn't be disappointed to see Trifunivič giving him a lesson. Whatever that could be, the priorities of Petrovič is making me ill literally. I mean to take Collins over Kalnietis is very strange, but might be reasonable, but to keep Milaknis as the main shooting guard while having Pocius and Delininkaitis? The "phenomenon" of Milaknis is mysterious. The guy can only shoot open threes and nothing more (literally) and he's always in the court.

Hopefully it's gonna be a good game, but if not Petrovič' style I would say Žalgiris could take it rather comfortably at home. As for now, I think that Žalgiris still can't show it's best because of the coach.

This post has been edited by straight forward: 20 November 2010 - 04:06 PM

[Black Urum]

Bajramovic out. Care to reconsider?

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Black Urum, on 20 November 2010 - 05:44 PM, said:

Bajramovic out. Care to reconsider?

Ironically Rytas played better without him in the last game. Bajramovic can be a good weapon when it's his day, but he never connected well with the team. I don't think this loss is so important. Pocius might not play as well, but his injury is not serious.

[Black Urum]

Oh well...

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What a horrible game for those who expected some fight...

Two good things:

Zalgiris is really strong team this season and I think with some luck they can go maybe even till final 4!
Another relief is Valančiūnas and Šaras. Now Jonas has excellent field for stepping to another level. If Šaras will stay till the end of the season, this due might be very powerful in LKL finals.

Bad things:

Yeah, it's not easy to clean the mess after Anzulovic, but Trifunovic is not doing any good. Zone defence is horrible, no smart combination in offense. Once again, Kurtinaitis would look as gold in this situation.

[Sagenas]

If someone is interested, here's an interview with Naglis' point guard Chris Lowe...we will see him in LKL All Star game very soon.

http://greenhoops.zxq.net/?p=269

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Very entertaining and strong 3 point shooting contest - LKL all stars 2011. Lithuanians prove sharpshooters' reputation.

1 part


2 part


3 part

[Sagenas]

And when it comes to think how many other shooters we miss...players like Buterlevičius, Bitinas, Mažeika, Ruikis, Delininkaitis, Sinica, Pocius, Gvezdauskas, Š.Vasiliauskas, Milaknis maybe even Šiknšnius, Jasaitis, Brazdauskis could make many shots. We have many good shooters...too bad not that much are very good athletic and strong individually.