Barcelona’s hot spot: Shar’s first coach, marking his Euroleague change

Whether it was Costa Slouk’s footsteps or the referee’s silent whistle, when three Barcelona players hit the Olympiacos defender for a foul to stop time and send an opponent to the penalty line as soon as possible, Shar did not shut up for long, spilling bile during the wasted seconds.

He danced to the rhythm of referee Sasha Puklas and did not understand why he was standing idly, although the violation of the rules, in the eyes of the Lithuanian, was evident. Just 7 seconds later, another referee on the opposite side of the court scored a Barcai foul and left 7 seconds on the scoreboard instead of 14. It was a verdict for the Barca team three points away.

Shar couldn’t believe it. He kept blaming S.Pukl and after the whistle, and finally sat down in his chair. Only after a long sermon did S. Puklas dare to commit a technical foul.

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Šarūnas Jasikevičius has long been as tolerant of judges as he has been over the last year.

The Barça strategist, who was sanctioned for the first time for accusing the referees this season, is far from keeping up with Euroleague leader Andrea Trinchieri. Italy’s Bayern Munich were penalized for a technical foul 7 times in 12 Euroleague matches.

In his first year in the Euroleague, Shar didn’t have as much diplomacy.

2016-2017 and 2017-2018 season boss “Žalgiris” The coach’s technical foul in the Euroleague was sanctioned 6 times. A couple of years ago, he was second only to Georgios Bartzok, who led Chimki.

2018-2019 During the Euroleague season, the Lithuanian invaded the Euroleague leaders. With 9 technical fouls, the strategist, who was sanctioned in almost every fourth Euroleague game, had no levels throughout the tournament.

In recent years, however, Shar has started to change dramatically.

2019-2020 During the Euroleague season, during which Žalgiris played 28 matches before the pandemic, Šarūnas Jasikevičius received only 4 technical fouls, at least since his debut months in Žalgiris. In comparison, season leader Zvedan Mitrovich received 10 techniques from Vilerbana ASVEL.

Every week in the seventh game of the Euroleague, Shara managed to run out of technical matches for almost 13 matches, when he was finally disciplined by S. Puklas at the end of the match on December 8.

“It just came to our knowledge then. Although technical, he still treats the judges differently. I don’t know if from that experience because then he was a beginning coach and everything was new. But now he feels less and less and certainly has not received many of those technicians … “- 15 minutes Tomás Masiulis, Shar’s assistant in Barcelona, ​​told the basketball podcast “urBONUS”.