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- “Žalgiris” – Vitoria The “Baskonia” match starts in Kaunas on Tuesday – 8pm. On Thursday, the people of Žalgiris will receive their home at the Fenerbahche in Istanbul.
The pandemic shook in 2019-2020. basketball season, but meeting in the summer, Rokas Giedraitis knew it was not the last earthquake under his feet.
The basketball player in the box had a contract with ALBA Berlin until 2021. But several European clubs lined up to take over this document.
Chimki in the Moscow region, Panathinaikos in Athens, Real in Madrid … 15 minutes According to sources, if the free agent market was postponed from summer to late fall due to the pandemic, the NBA team could have come up with the offer. And it is no longer a bilateral contract like the summer of 2019, but guaranteed by an NBA contract.
“Someone was there, but I didn’t go very deep,” they asked if he would have really raised his wings to the NBA if it weren’t for the pandemic. 15 minutes R. Giedraitis said. – Because when the pandemic started, everything ended. I don’t even think about it now. “
Photo from Getty Images / Euroleague.net/Rokas Giedraitis
But there was another club that wanted Rock the most.
Sources in Spain assure that the sympathy of the Basque club in Vitoria was so great that the architect of the Basque club, José Antonio Quejereta, did not skimp on paying 200,000 to the Germans. euro, and deliver a solid three-year contract to Lithuania.
15 minutes According to the information, in the first season in Vitoria R. Giedraitis will earn about 650 thousand. euros. That’s almost double his previous earnings in Berlin. Meanwhile, in the last third year of his contract, R. Giedraitis’ salary will approach one million euros.
“This year we watched it, waiting for the postponed German championship to end. We thought that when the championship ended, the speeches, the transitions would begin. But one day I read that R. Giedraitis signs with “Baskonia”, an interview 15 minutes Rimas Kurtinaitis consoled himself. – Very suddenly everything happened. Perhaps those negotiations had taken place before, but it all happened very suddenly. “
“The first reason was a match in the ACB league.” 15 minutes R. Giedraitis explained his choice in Kaunas on the eve of the match with Žalgiris. – I wanted to test myself in the ACB and in the Euroleague. He was fascinated by the two strongest European leagues. And a three-year contract, there wasn’t much to think about. A good team, a good organization with a great track record … Everything is fine ”.
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3.2 million For $ 32 million for Luis Scola, $ 2.5 million for Mirza Teletovich or $ 2 million for Andrés Nocioni, José Antonio Quejereta, a Spaniard who has run the Vitoria club for 32 years, has always bought intelligently in the European players market and then has come back twice for the same item. Rokas Giedraitis is the latest project by a Basque basketball magnate.
“I don’t want to think about the NBA because the season is long,” when asked about future plans to enter the strongest basketball league in the world. 15 minutes R. Giedraitis said. – Pit, bottom, second, third game. After that, again … Now we have to look at the season, and then we’ll look. I’ve been here for three years and I’m ready to be here. “
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The influential businessman had long watched Rokas Giedraitis, who was perfectly prepared for the Spanish basketball scene by the noble ALBA general Aito García from Berlin. Soft or Strong Hand – Find a way to use the R. Giedraitis figure on the square.
The demanding Duško Ivanovičius suddenly found a place for the Lithuanian in the square, and this quickly justified the manager’s confidence.
Already in the second round of the Euroleague, R. Giedraitis reached a career-high performance record when he scored 26 points in the Crvena zvezda basket in Belgrade. After two more rounds, he fell 20 points to Chimki Moscow’s basket. A month later, 19 lost at the Fenerbahche in Istanbul.
In Spain, he contributed 22 points to the victory of Estudiantes del Madrid, 19 Rock points and defeated Shar with Barcelona.
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R.Giedraitis was not stopped by the opponents ‘defense or Duškas Ivanovičius’ basketball frame.
“It just came to our notice then. As we know, he stands out as a defense professional. And then, what I know best: currently 3-pointers and I use my height in a quick attack, a Lithuanian told a 63-year-old Montenegrin his duties. – Last year in Aito it was a much freer game. There are more frames, more everything is based on tactics; what Duško says is what to do. But I think I have adapted and I don’t see any problem. “
Photo from Getty Images / Euroleague.net/Rokas Giedraitis and Duško Ivanovičius
Suitable for rock is that basketball based on physicality, ball tear, fast forward and fast triple.
Vitoria “Baskonia” is the most daring thief in the Euroleague and takes the largest number of balls during the match, 8 each. 1.17 times per game (result 19 in the Euroleague) and without going backwards he advances.
When ALBA was the team that prepared the fastest attacks in the Euroleague last year, this year Baskonia ranks second after the Germans. Rokas Giedraitis is usually the first to show up for a quick attack; from there, he accumulates a fifth of his points.
If play is stopped, R. Giedraitis seeks the edges of the field or protrudes from under the barriers. Of such situations, the attacker creates another 53 percent. 40 and 50 percent of your points, respectively. accuracy.
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In total, the Lithuanian collects vid. 11.8 points (53.8 percent in two, 36.2 percent in three), 2.8 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 11.7 profit points. With 6 wins and 6 losses, Baskonia move up to the Euroleague eight, and four of those failures were scored by 4 points or less.
“I consider the season quite bad. We started the season well – 15 minutes R. Giedraitis spoke. – There were pits after that, but so far everything is going very well. We are improving our game. I think I’m improving too. Clearly, those wells are. He himself is now in such a hole, but that is normal. The season is long and you just have to look forward ”.
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In the future, R. Giedraitis got trapped behind a stone. During the last three Euroleague matches, the Lithuanian collected only vine. 5.6 points and hit only 21.4 percent. three dots (3/14).
But in the shower it is important not only because of the points. With his constant advance, the expansion of the field and the inexhaustible batteries, R. Giedraitis earned the status of Baskonia basketball player who competes the most minutes: he appears at 31.5 minutes. In Spain and 28.5 min. In the Euroleague.
“I used it in the morning for 35 minutes and I didn’t see that I was tired. Rock endures, knows how to suffer fatigue, energetic. In the end, that energy manifests itself even more. He maintains that level very well and is a really good player, he only gets better. 15 minutes R. Kurtinaitis said. – I think he found a very good team that matches his style. That Spanish drawing is very suitable for him: light, fast. He would also have believed in our team. We need a speed player who can play in 30 minutes. “
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Such a horse would now look better in Kaunas “Žalgiris” than ever. It would be fun for him to fly with Žalgiris. Through their eyes, you fly with them at home watching the Euroleague broadcasts.
“They play basketball very well. It is pleasing to the eye for me, – R. Giedraitis did not hide. – I watched the game in Athens and I really enjoyed it. I have also seen more matches of them. I like the way they play: fast, sudden; they can attack in the fifth or sixth second of an attack.
Beautiful basketball. I see it as we do, sometimes they play wavy. But everything is fine. “
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