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Sep 2, 2010, 4:04 pm
[quote name='skangles' timestamp='1283305079' post='24526']
Vilius, today Maciulis gave us exactly what I expect out of him. Hopefully he can keep it up! If he can play this well against Spain there's no reason he can't do the same in against teams like Canada! The August 31 Jonas Maciulis is necessary for Lithuania's success going forward well beyond this tournament. <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thup:' />
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I have to agree with on this one. MaÄiulis did a massive job against Spain and also yesterday against France. He needs to use his aggressiveness in the right way then he be very dangerous. Not a scoring machine but a serious force on both ends of the court.
The team surprised me a lot. They are playing beyond all expectations. One could see many similarities between this team and the one of 2000. If only they could repeat such performance.
The coaching is also good. KemzÅ«ra could have used AndriuÅ¡keviÄius much more imo but he got the wins anyway so I guess we can't complain. But the most important thing to me is that this team is never giving up. Even when they are in really bad situation they stay calm and play with confidence. That's something that maybe the teams of previous years, despite having stars, sometimes lacked.
It's way too early to celebrate now but semi-final doesn't look like mission impossible.
Vilius, today Maciulis gave us exactly what I expect out of him. Hopefully he can keep it up! If he can play this well against Spain there's no reason he can't do the same in against teams like Canada! The August 31 Jonas Maciulis is necessary for Lithuania's success going forward well beyond this tournament. <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thup:' />
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I have to agree with on this one. MaÄiulis did a massive job against Spain and also yesterday against France. He needs to use his aggressiveness in the right way then he be very dangerous. Not a scoring machine but a serious force on both ends of the court.
The team surprised me a lot. They are playing beyond all expectations. One could see many similarities between this team and the one of 2000. If only they could repeat such performance.
The coaching is also good. KemzÅ«ra could have used AndriuÅ¡keviÄius much more imo but he got the wins anyway so I guess we can't complain. But the most important thing to me is that this team is never giving up. Even when they are in really bad situation they stay calm and play with confidence. That's something that maybe the teams of previous years, despite having stars, sometimes lacked.
It's way too early to celebrate now but semi-final doesn't look like mission impossible.