Lithuania NT 2009

[straight forward]

Butautas will try 5 point guards- Kalnietis, Gustas, Mažutis, Kaukėnas, Delininkaitis. The last two are not even point guards, but Delininkaitis would be better than Prekevičius any time, IMHO. What would you go after? I think Kalnietis and Gustas. Mažutis is just another experiment of Butautas (we know he's not very good at this point...).



i see these as the main expectants:



PG: Kalnietis, Gustas

SG: Kaukenas, Lukauskis, Delininkaitis

SF: Jasaitis, Mačiulis, Jomantas

PF. K. Lavrinovičius, L. Kleiza, P. Jankunas.

C: R. Javtokas, D. Lavrinovicius, M. Petravicius.



It will be really hard to cut 2 players. I think both Gustas and Kalnietis is needed while Jasikevičius is not here. Delininkaitis proved he's really worth to play for NT, specially now when Å iÅ¡ka is out and Lukauskis is not stable offensive player so Delininkaitis would be a great choice from the bench. I don't see what to cut from forwards as well. Jomantas is a need while he can dribble, penetrate and to create the game. Petravičius had a little minutes in Olympics, but it would be to hard to cut him as well.



I think Butautas will have to prove something this time. The roster isn't the black hole even if we will lack sharp leadership. What comes to my mind is that this roster would have a good defenders as well, imagine this lineup:



Jomantas (I believe he's worth for a try at PG position)

Lukauskis

Mačiulis

D. Lavrinovič

Javtokas



As for the scorers, Būtautas should create all conditions for Kaukėnas and Kleiza to feel comfortable as well as to use our front line.