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Two NKL basketball players are also improving this season at Kaunas’ strongest Lithuanian basketball club “Žalgiris”. This – Blankets Rubštavičius Y Paul Murauskas, who defend the honor of the second team of “Žalgiris” in the National Basketball League.
They both started playing sports with the “Žalgiris” main team two months ago, when the number of injuries at the club increased. Murauskas and Rubštavičius immediately felt great benefits while training with Euroleague basketball players and deserved the opportunity to escape on the park.
Over three matches, LKL’s seventeen-year-old Murauskas scored two points from two matches, and eighteen-year-old Rubštavičius recorded an average of 4.3 points over the same number of matches.
Some of the most promising basketball players in the country, who are happy with such an experience, feel stronger after returning to the reserve teams of Žalgiris.
“I think the benefits are really great,” said P. Murauskas in the video report “nklyga.lt”. – Still, the players have a lot of experience, there is a lot to learn. You can see how Thomas Walkup defends well, how Artūras Milaknis throws with Marius Grigonis. You can have a little of all. “
“It is always a great honor to work with professionals,” added M. Rubštavičius. – It is a great incentive for me to have more improvements, more effort. I gain more experience, I learn from them because they are true professionals. I usually participate in offensive training, but I also have to defend myself against Artūras Milaknis or Marius Grigonis. “
P. Murauskas became the third youngest Kaunas “Žalgiris” debutant in the history of the LKL club. The forward who appeared in the match with Klaipėda “Neptūnas” in the square was then 16 years and 323 days old, and only Vytenis Čižauskas and Kęstutis Marčiulionis made their younger LKL debuts.
“It’s fun to debut, but I’m not serious. I just received a great incentive to keep working. It motivates you to keep working hard, trying. I think everything will be in the future,” said P. Murauskas.
Young basketball players have the opportunity not only to play sports with the “Žalgiris” basketball players, but also to work individually with the coaches of the main team. Head coach Martin Schiller is also not shy about helping the youngsters.
“The head coach always stays to work with the youngsters after training, as well as with other coaches, Tautvydas Sabonis and Evaldas Beržininkaitis. In training with M. Schiller, we emphasized passports and advancements, I really liked them ”, said M. Rubštavičius.
The head coach of the second team “Žalgiris”, Arvydas Gronskis, works with young talents every day, and when they returned from the main team training sessions, they quickly noticed the difference.
“Sometimes we can’t even model situations like when they play with older, more experienced basketball players, they get lessons, they have good examples of how to talk on the court, how to cooperate,” Gronskis said. – When we play here, almost everyone has the same ability, and there are higher-class players who give lessons. We can’t even model such situations in training. “
A. Gronskis himself is tasked with his coaching staff to play a system similar to “Žalgiris”. This request already took place near Šarūnas Jasikevičius, and now continues even after M. Schiller has become the team’s head coach.
“Nothing has changed, and we continue to do so to make it as easy as possible for the players to integrate so that they do not mix and the central team does not have to waste time and teach something again. Yes, we cannot catch up with some combinations, but they need to know the general principles, “said the substitute coach of Žalgiris.
Žalgiris doubles won 18 victories in 28 games in the NKL regular season. In the Kaunas team, 198cm tall M. Rubštavičius started every game in the top five, and with an average of 11.8 points he is the most productive basketball player.
“Last year’s leaders left, they rose to a higher level, I knew I would have a bigger role, the coach trusts me much more,” said M. Rubštavičius. “It makes me feel so much better, I do more pitches, I can create and improve others.”
“It’s good that he goes up every day,” said A. Gronskis about M. Rubštavičius. – Compared to last year, you feel a steady increase both in terms of results and in terms of play and confidence. There are things that need to be fixed, as always. You need to hit better from distance, make decisions faster and also on defense. But a young player can’t stop improving. “
The 203 cm tall Paulius Murauskas, who recently celebrated his 17th birthday, is also one of the most important doubles basketball players in Žalgiris. Score 10.5 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Still, a lot of good players came out, the team was vacant. I got stronger physically, the IQ of basketball increased, now it’s really easier to play,” said P. Murauskas.
“We all want to improve as soon as possible, but there is a time when he has to wait.” There are better and worse parties. Paul himself needs to have peace and take small steps forward, said A. Gronskis. – It is rewarding because it moves forward and makes decisions. For him, basketball has changed a lot: it was children’s basketball and he quickly jumped into men’s basketball. It really is a great challenge for him.
I think its physical properties are the best. He is very strong physically, well, long-armed, sensitive. He sees the field of play, he wants to make transfers. In a match we even allow him to play as a player, he, being so tall, plays well against two. And to improve there are things that need to be improved on the shooting, the defense, the team’s defense. There are many things you need.
That he has talent, yes. But in reality there is a great burden for him, the whole environment that presses on him. Talent, talent, but you know, talent without work can flow. This is the most important thing for him to understand, we are trying to tell him that work is very important. I think you understand this and work sincerely. Has a lot of talent “.
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