Sireika’s impression of “Žalgiris”: “They will have to work a lot before a good match” / News

“Šiauliai” became the first team to face LKL Kaunas champion “Žalgiris” in the official match.

Despite losing the match 56:89, Šiauliai strategist Antanas Sireika said that the “Žalgiris” team would still have to work hard to achieve optimal form.

“I don’t want to be an expert from another team, but I can say in one sentence: I think” Žalgiris “will have to work a lot before a good game. Both in defense and attack. They also have foreigners and they, like us, need to understand each other. and feel. It will take a lot of work, “Sireika shared her impressions of the Kaunas team.

Speaking about her students’ game, Sireika also pointed out that her team will also have to work hard.

“The impression is that I said that we played at 2 percent. As I would like to see. But speaking with friends, he says that the first half did not look bad at all. Some little ones did what we said, but we played with such a team and during the break we had to talk that here (“Žalgiris”) you can play like this.

There were questions about why I need to help someone else and things like that. I refer to foreigners, who have a hard time convincing them that European basketball, and especially Lithuanian, has a team defense, where the defenders are exchanged more often, and there are many barriers in attack. We stumbled, but it doesn’t surprise me, because we see that we still have to train, ”said the strategist.

The Žalgiris people fled Šiauliai in the second half. Šiauliai, who lost the 0:10 stage, could no longer recover. According to Sireika, his team will still have to learn to endure more difficult times.

“The strength of a player or team is not only a productive attack or a good attack, it must also resist. There are times when I yell to stop and say we better play for 20 seconds, but I don’t give opponents a 7-8 second ball.

You need to be angry and stop the game. It is difficult to prepare 5 players to run like clockwork. I said let’s learn to play two against three so that when there is a difficult moment, the ball receives the one that hits the best or something breaks in a penalty. It’s elementary when I say it now, but you have to learn it, ”said the strategist.

When asked about the Legionnaires’ game, Sireika said that they didn’t leave much of an impression.

“Medium (print). Anderson, Friedrichsson and Van Vliet started the game well, but then Andy (Van Vliet) made a very basic mistake. He wasn’t ready to come to the rescue, he wasn’t ready for the opponent to run all the time. This is bad. It didn’t help where it was needed, “said the Šiauliai strategist.