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Russian legend Andrei Kirillenko was recently re-elected as president of the new basketball federation and now looks with ambition to the future of the country in the sport.
Andrei Kirilenko
| Position: | PF, SF |
| Years: | 39 |
| Height: | 206 cm |
| Weight: | 98 kilograms |
| Place of birth: | Izhevsk, Russia |
In conversation with the country’s media, the former basketball player mentioned the old days as an example for young players and revealed that Russia will continue to count on veterans in the next selection for the European Championship.
“We want to build a generation of players who will compete at a high level for a long time. Like the current generation of basketball players. Let’s remember how the team played with Anton Ponkrasov, Vitaly Fridzon, Andrejs Voroncevičius, Nikita Kurbanov and others. We will continue to trust veterans in the next team, but the new generation has the opportunity to reach that level, “Kirilenka told Russian media.
Speaking more about basketball in Russia, Kirilenka was reprimanded by a journalist for making the sport more popular in other European countries. However, the former NBA player did not want to agree with that and gave the example of Lithuania and Serbia.
“You know, people always give me the example of Lithuania, saying that it is a basketball country,” said the president of the Russian Basketball Federation. – But tell me at least one player besides Jonas Valančiūnas, who has remained stable in the NBA and was raised in a Lithuanian basketball school, not an American one.
Well, let’s talk about Serbia. Basketball is definitely the number one sport there, but they have another problem: no player on the men’s and women’s national teams represents their country’s basketball. “
For the last time, the Russian men’s basketball team won awards in international competitions at the 2012 London Olympics, where it ranked third.
Kirilenka, who played in the NBA for 12 seasons, ended her career as a basketball player in 2015.
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boom shaka laka
For the Vatniks, it is generally a country of basketball, soccer and other sports that you can find an American, Ukrainian, Brazilian, naturalized Portuguese, etc. in each team. and in which room of the soccer team the Brazilians + Portuguese go for it all. Ai verbally, choose nach vatnike.
boom shaka laka
The Vatniks are generally a country of basketball, soccer and other sports that you can find a naturalized American, Ukrainian, Braille, Portuguese, etc. in each team.
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The mere fact that both Lithuania and Serbia typically qualify for the Russian national team is what it says when that country has a population dozens of times as large and can invest much more money in sports due to a much larger market.
abd
well, I would say that Ilgauskas was very stable in the NBA. next question?
boom shaka laka
This bastard imagines that a basketball country is only one that has NBA players. that primitive cotton thought. In my opinion, basketball ash is the one that most people are interested in practicing this sport on various levels. Cotton is cotton.
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What is the NBA for? The question was not from the NBA at all: D It is full of Lithuanians who, when they play for the national teams, come together from other countries with many more national team players. Criticisms of Lithuania and Serbia alone contradict their own logic on the issue. The number of Lithuanian basketball players per capita is high everywhere. The Lithuanian basketball league is also full of Lithuanian basketball players, including Spain, France, Poland, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Iceland, Taiwan, China, England, Germany, etc. The salaries of Russian basketball players in the VTB League are brutally inflated because they are lacking for clubs to meet the minimum number of Russians available in the club. And even those inflated double- or triple-real-value salaries of basketball players don’t attract young people to basketball there. We train so many basketball players in Lithuania that they often do not find their place in Lithuania and go abroad, where in other countries they are respected for their skills and become solid, there are players known to basketball fans.
boom shaka laka
Currently nach that vatnik Kirilenka.
Pacukas
I blame the crown because the roof of the town rides because of it, like our dear Lord Cyrillic
Shark.
here we are talking about that in general, but looking at what the Russians still have and what we have we have nothing for this Russian.
Antans
The language of interest can be accepted, but only for the good of the Euroleague.
Fences
Anas n * chui goes with his watts. You will have to repel the ass in the field of the Russians for these words.
In vino veritas
Really, Cyril? Well prepared here as an unusual propagandist at the troll factory; And if you really believe in such a moose, well, here’s stage five delusional.
tom
Can you tell me why no basketball TV shows show Neptune right now?
Expert
It is not the talent but the money that plays in Lithuania … well, more influence
Jovaras
That only one JV is an NBA basketball player raised in Lithuania. How many Russians are there established in the NBA? Bear in mind that Russia in general has almost 50 times more inhabitants than Lithuania. And the fact that that non-basketball country, which does not produce talented players out of a population 140 million less than Russia, is constantly (with rare exceptions) rising in the European World Championships and Olympics, is not the case here. .
to zalgiri
There is a lot of foam, but after rejecting valanciuna and kleiza for the past 20 years, it has not developed much in Lithuania. Instead of acknowledging the bitter truth here, everyone foams terribly. with Serbs, French, Greeks, Spanish or Croats not even compared to the number of stars
Cyrillic
Brutally pretended to speak like this
Erre
and I don’t understand why you are so mad at Kirlenk ??? We love love, not words. The essence is that the Lithuanian youth has become only a “commodity”: the agents, the coaches, even the LKF form the image of a young person, a fact! It is not that the NBA is not Lithuanian, but also in the Euroleague 1-2 it only has places in the starting five !!! All the other three from the bank !!! What juvenile systems ??? It is just a herd !!! and euros !!! Victories are won by the strongest, but not the most talented … Perhaps someone can tell how strong they are killed to raise a talented one (which is subjective but not objective)!
Anonymous
Such a conversation only shows how strong the basketball countries Lithuania and Serbia are. It had to be said that the money would continue to flow successfully into the budget, but horse-level mental skills on this matter do not allow us to say anything sensible. According to her, professionals only play in the NBA. This goalkeeper inadvertently sends a message to Sved, Mozgov, Kurbanov: you haven’t established yourself in the NBA, so you have no bottom. In the Euroleague, you are just wasting your time and crying to all of Russia … And the Serbian clubs are not guilty that their government did not deprive their people from the last time, so that only the elite Serbian basketball players can play in his country. Arguments extracted from the framework. There is still talk of something to come when no talented Russians are on the horizon. With the clay in situ, the Russians will climb less into the abyss.
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