(Sep 10, 2013, 1:21 pm)straight forward Wrote: What a mess Kazlauskas did with this Lithuanian roster. It was seen already in preparation, but there still was a hope he's not showing everything. This team is playing even worse than they did with Kemzura last two years. The rotation is choatic just like ex coach's, combination reminds Butautas' famous schemes in 2009, youngsters are silenced and lastly this team is not allowed to run. Kazlauskas fuc.. completely and I didn't see that coming. Horrible. No matter how Lithuania will play in the future, it's save to say that so far Kazlauskas was killing this team. I'm starting to think Lithuania simply doesn't have good coaches. Maybe Kurtinaitis?
However, very entertaining and intersting Eurobasket so far!
Hey guys. My favorite forum (interbasket.net) has been hacked multiple times, unfortunately, so I'll be hanging out here for a while.
Lithuania needs to execute the plays that it know best, in my opinion, like the screen and roll. At this point, Kazlauskas shouldn't be experimenting - he should be working with whatever works best. I saw how the Lithuanian post players just stood there, or tried to set a pick down low in the second half versus Bosnia, and nothing came of it. If we are truly playing through bigs, then we need them to set the pick up top and then roll to the basket. Kalnietis uses those picks quite effectively by driving to the basket and drawing fouls/scoring/passing it to the big man. That's better than Kalnietis trying to pass the ball into the post and it gets stolen by the opponent.
Our team really needs to step it up if we want to think about the quarterfinal. I don't know if we will win against France, but if we play smart, we should be able to grab the wins from Ukraine and Belgium.
P.S. straight forward, is that you from interbasket? I'm macleopard13 .