[ad_1]
The brilliant names of Lithuanian basketball continue to travel to the ŽalgirisOnAir website one after another. This time, a former Žalgiris resident and now Martynas Pocius, who works at the Denver Nuggets Club, came to the studio at the Žalgiris Arena.
Despite the promise to resume NBA battles at the end of the month, Cyprus’s last interlocutor Serpauskas is currently in Lithuania. In an effort to reduce the number of players in the renewed NBA, Pocius was allowed to go home and watch everything from the sidelines.
The defender, who ended his career as a professional basketball player in 2017, immediately joined the NBA club organization and still works there. According to the 34-year-old Vilnius man, he went to the NBA without big goals.
“Frankly, I don’t have goals that I necessarily have to be a CEO and the like. I came with very little ambition to get to know that cuisine, get better every day, and move on. The world is very broad there, it can grow there and it will never be the case that you have learned everything, ”said the three-time Lithuanian champion on the Internet broadcast.
The 196 centimeter, who studied at Duke University, also spoke about the missed opportunity to try his luck at an NBA club camp in the summer league.
“When the Žalgiris season ended, the agent said there was NBA interest in us going to see him after he finished. Still, I played with pain all season, kept squeezing my back and needed surgery. Everything is gone.” , the old Pocius returned to his career.
Recalling the times while wearing a green and white jersey, Pocius highlighted stories about the care shown by then-team coach Gintaras Krapikas and the cosmic rescue requested by then-team leader Vladimir Romanov.
“At the time of Romanov, Barcelona and Chimki were interested in me, they asked me what my rescue would be. The agent asked, called and said 6 million. Then you hang up and you think that I really am not going to play in that team anymore because you think that you’re really an idiot. There was no ransom, here Romanov came up with that amount that day, “recalled the player, who is very popular with Žalgiris fans, with a smile on his face.
Topics:
- on the situation in America, the return of the NBA, the details of the work and Arthur Karnishov (0:30);
- on life and gambling at the university, his appearance on Žalgiris and the Lithuanian national team (26:30);
- about Real Madrid, Ergin Ataman and Kaunas hardest season (47:55);
- about Šarūnas Jasikevičius, trauma and social media (1:00:00);
- Blic game (1:09:00);
- viewer questions (1:20:05).
[ad_2]
