Jul 6, 2010, 6:16 am
[quote name='Panathinaikos' date='04 July 2010 - 01:45 AM' timestamp='1278200753' post='23502']
The result was not bad (bronze without Papaloukas and Diamantidis) and they would have won silver IMO if they did not have to tank games to avoid Spain, just because Spain struggled in the group stage..........
But that isn't my point. My point was that Kazlauskas' coaching still wasn't that good. Spanoulis and Sofo carried the team and hardly anything came on coaching. Also, his player selections the last 2 summers now have been highly questionable, to say the least. Greece's offense looks better with him than under Giannakis, but still it does not seem like Kazlauskas is doing that good.
And honestly, he didn't do a good job with China either.
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I dunno, the games that I saw China play under him, they seemed massively improved. I really liked their 2.05 m PG, who was pretty decent for his height. For a country like China with no tradition in the sport of basketball I think Kazlauskas at least succeeded in making them a more serious premiership level National team. The Chinese still have a long way to go until they become a force to be reckoned with, but I think Kazlauskas's work has put them in a better light.
The result was not bad (bronze without Papaloukas and Diamantidis) and they would have won silver IMO if they did not have to tank games to avoid Spain, just because Spain struggled in the group stage..........
But that isn't my point. My point was that Kazlauskas' coaching still wasn't that good. Spanoulis and Sofo carried the team and hardly anything came on coaching. Also, his player selections the last 2 summers now have been highly questionable, to say the least. Greece's offense looks better with him than under Giannakis, but still it does not seem like Kazlauskas is doing that good.
And honestly, he didn't do a good job with China either.
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I dunno, the games that I saw China play under him, they seemed massively improved. I really liked their 2.05 m PG, who was pretty decent for his height. For a country like China with no tradition in the sport of basketball I think Kazlauskas at least succeeded in making them a more serious premiership level National team. The Chinese still have a long way to go until they become a force to be reckoned with, but I think Kazlauskas's work has put them in a better light.