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Dec 3, 2010, 11:42 am
Petrovic seems to get "better" and "better". BeforeI make any further comments I must say that I didn't expect to see Butautas-type of coaching again. I was wrong apparently. He's so unbelievably stubborn, just like Butautas. It's as if he had a shot gun pointed to his head with a choice 'either change your tactics or you're dead'. He would die for his tactics!
Although in this post I will be talking mainly about last night's game against Maccabi but all of what I'm going to say applies to the whole season.
Petrovic has a 'magical' plan of rotating the players during the game. The problem is that he makes those substitutions no matter what. It's as if he had an alarm set every few minutes so he knows when to replace the players on the court. A clear example of such stupidity was visible yesterday. Zalgiris started the game with an unusual starting lineup. This time there was no Milaknis (OMFG!) and no Collins. And guess what? Zalgiris was up 14-7 midway through the first quarter. But then Petrovic's alarm rang he put Milaknis, Collins and Watson on the court. The result? Maccabi takes the lead and Zalgiris can't score. Soon after that he replaces the whole starting lineup. The struggle continues. Petrovic doesn't give a damn how well or bad the players that are on the court play. When it's time for a substitution there's nothing you can do.
The stupid rotation continued during the whole game but another notable moment was the last minutes of the game. Zalgiris had a small lead. Then Petrovic decided to let score-less game killer Collins. He quickly makes two turnovers and goes back to bench. I have to admit that in this case Petrovic has changed slightly since previously he wouldn't have reacted to Collins mistakes at all. Kalnietis had a bad game as well but he played excellently compared to Collins.
Another thing that reminded me Butautas yesterday was the that Zalgiris attacked. How many times they took a shoot/attempted to shoot when the 24 sec clock was at 1 or 2? Maccabi just take the ball and score points within the first 15 seconds of their attack while Zalgiris tries to kill the time or they have no clue how to break Maccabi's defence? Either way it's the result of a poor preparation or poor tactical decisions. In spite of such slow play they still made 28 turnovers! I mean 28!
And what about Petrovic's love to Milaknis - the worst player on the roster of Zalgiris? The player who is at the level of an average LKL team is EL starter! As straight forward already said, Milaknis has NO SKILLS at all except 3pt shooting and that's only if he's open with no defenders 2m from him. Even his shooting technique is so slow that it's painful to watch. Milaknis is terribly slow in thinking, slow at running and even slow in shooting. He's still starting the games even when there's Delininkaitis and Pocius on the bench!
Zalgiris could have been 6-1 in this group but now they will finish 4th at best with the way they play. Then it's Top 16 and another 0-6, 1-5 or 2-4.
The only question to me is whether Romanov make a move before it's too late. Petrovic came to Zalgiris because Romanov wanted him. Plus the only foreign language that Petrovic speaks is Russian, the native language of Romanov. Who cares that Petrovic can't communicate with his players and needs his assistant to translate everything? I still doubt that Petrovic will stay here till the end of the season but when he leaves it will be too late to change anything this season.
Although in this post I will be talking mainly about last night's game against Maccabi but all of what I'm going to say applies to the whole season.
Petrovic has a 'magical' plan of rotating the players during the game. The problem is that he makes those substitutions no matter what. It's as if he had an alarm set every few minutes so he knows when to replace the players on the court. A clear example of such stupidity was visible yesterday. Zalgiris started the game with an unusual starting lineup. This time there was no Milaknis (OMFG!) and no Collins. And guess what? Zalgiris was up 14-7 midway through the first quarter. But then Petrovic's alarm rang he put Milaknis, Collins and Watson on the court. The result? Maccabi takes the lead and Zalgiris can't score. Soon after that he replaces the whole starting lineup. The struggle continues. Petrovic doesn't give a damn how well or bad the players that are on the court play. When it's time for a substitution there's nothing you can do.
The stupid rotation continued during the whole game but another notable moment was the last minutes of the game. Zalgiris had a small lead. Then Petrovic decided to let score-less game killer Collins. He quickly makes two turnovers and goes back to bench. I have to admit that in this case Petrovic has changed slightly since previously he wouldn't have reacted to Collins mistakes at all. Kalnietis had a bad game as well but he played excellently compared to Collins.
Another thing that reminded me Butautas yesterday was the that Zalgiris attacked. How many times they took a shoot/attempted to shoot when the 24 sec clock was at 1 or 2? Maccabi just take the ball and score points within the first 15 seconds of their attack while Zalgiris tries to kill the time or they have no clue how to break Maccabi's defence? Either way it's the result of a poor preparation or poor tactical decisions. In spite of such slow play they still made 28 turnovers! I mean 28!
And what about Petrovic's love to Milaknis - the worst player on the roster of Zalgiris? The player who is at the level of an average LKL team is EL starter! As straight forward already said, Milaknis has NO SKILLS at all except 3pt shooting and that's only if he's open with no defenders 2m from him. Even his shooting technique is so slow that it's painful to watch. Milaknis is terribly slow in thinking, slow at running and even slow in shooting. He's still starting the games even when there's Delininkaitis and Pocius on the bench!
Zalgiris could have been 6-1 in this group but now they will finish 4th at best with the way they play. Then it's Top 16 and another 0-6, 1-5 or 2-4.
The only question to me is whether Romanov make a move before it's too late. Petrovic came to Zalgiris because Romanov wanted him. Plus the only foreign language that Petrovic speaks is Russian, the native language of Romanov. Who cares that Petrovic can't communicate with his players and needs his assistant to translate everything? I still doubt that Petrovic will stay here till the end of the season but when he leaves it will be too late to change anything this season.