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Kaunas “Žalgiris”, who has returned to the path of victory in the Euroleague, faces the challenge of a two-week week. The first contender is Vaskija’s “Baskonia”, represented by Rokas Giedraitis and Tadas Sedekerskis, with whom Martin Schiller’s students will fight at home on Tuesday.
On the eve of the match, the Žalgiris strategist highlighted the main aspects of the opponents’ game.
Baskonia are a good defense and a high-altitude team. They make rivals uncomfortable and make a lot of mistakes, so we’ll have to take care of the ball, ”Schiller began at the press conference. – In attack, they stand out more in the fight for rebounds, which is a bit like the Athenian Panathinaikos team, and statistically the result of Baskonia is even better.
In the middle forward position, the Basques are distinguished by tall people, the heavy-edged forwards are athletic, the basketball players remaining at that time also get involved in that fight for the balls in attack. We have to control it to be able to play a good game. “
– Has the victory in Athens changed the psychological state of the team a bit?
– No, I didn’t pay attention. It wasn’t like we were doing something different in Athens. The men fought, were very focused and responded to the opponents at the same time that the Panathinaikos tried to run. Generally speaking, on team psychology, everything remains the same as before. Sure, victories light up the smiles on their faces and that’s great, but the team is struggling and it was only a matter of time before we won.
– Welcome to the Euroleague Double Week. How important will it be to keep the energy of the team’s basketball players in both games?
– It is very important to control the training process before the game. In the rotation we have lost two perimeter players, Steve Vasturi and Patricio Garino, with whom we lose additional opportunities. Our rotation is as it is. In my opinion, controlling loads in training is much more important (than in games). We don’t see opportunities to expand our rotation.
– Are you considering bringing in players from the reserve team and possibly testing them at LKL?
– Paulius Murauskas and Mantas Rubštavičius work with us in training, because we have such a situation due to injuries and the need for them is greater than before. But that was our plan to connect them, only sadly we didn’t get a chance to do it in the preseason cycle, then the COVID-19 virus broke out and the second team suffered a lot. Their infusion took a while, but they eventually trained.
It should come as no surprise that they too have a chance in the match. We do not rule out such an opportunity, we admire his talent, the club has such a methodology that it gives opportunities to young basketball players, and I would see opportunities for that at all. But now personally I am much more concerned with the game of Marek Blaževičius and Karolis Lukošiūnas in the context of LKL.
– Baskonia even have several different midfielders. What can be the biggest threat?
– The Basques play with four centers and all of them bring different benefits to the team. Youssoupha Fallas is very tall, which automatically challenges him to fight, he has to push him as far as possible from the basket, and it is not easy. Achille Polonara, a different center, is very mobile. These are both types of midfielders and they present challenges. We have to overcome these challenges, that’s the beauty of this league.
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