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Denmark has so far achieved its biggest basketball victories against countries like San Marino and Andorra, so basketball critics and fans agreed that the defeat of the Lithuanians on Friday was disgraceful. On social media, basketball blogs spoke of D. Maskoliūnas’ inability to prepare a team, and many people were especially surprised by the minute of rest in the fourth quarter.
A video capturing the aforementioned 13-second pause has quickly spread to Facebook. D. Maskoliūnas instructions lacked specificity during an important match: “We play as much as possible, we play. We will win fines, we will shoot. We missed free throws, you won’t do anything. Don’t feel pulled, crazy. Let’s try something. “
The Lithuanian team, who “thought something”, surprised those who saw it all. Commentator Nerijus Kesminas, who often criticizes the national soccer team, also decided to talk about the national basketball team. It is true that lately the players have muffled the criticism a bit: in 8 games, the team with 4 wins and 2 draws had the best calendar year in its history.
N. Kesminas stated that Lithuanian sport has a new shame.
“It just came to our notice then. Here is the quote: Lithuanian basketball team coach Darius Maskoliūnas, on November 27, 2020, took a minute break from the game with Denmark in the fourth quarter.
It did not stop. We got it from the Danes. Basketball. Minus fifteen playing Denmark’s hand would be the norm. Minus seven from hockey, too. If the footballers recovered three, it wouldn’t even surprise us. But here, basketball. Our second, and maybe even the first, religion. A sport as important to the Danes as the snow that melts on rooftops in spring.
The immortal Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen would probably have called his own ducks tonight a duck that had turned into a swan. Lithuanians are the king, whose brother-in-law is naked and, in fact, not so much the groom.
The Lithuanian soccer team, which had played steadily and consistently with organic material until then, did not lose six times this year. Therefore, I say that they are no longer the biggest shame of Lithuanian sport.
There is a bigger one. Unless they pay for something while playing with the Belgians. But judging from what I saw today, everything can end up like the Danish Prince Hamlet or our King Mindaugas. And we can immediately change the name of the basketball house with a basketball mausoleum.
Brrr … I would not, “wrote N. Kesmin.
After a sensational failure, D. Maskoliūnas himself assumed full responsibility.
“It just came to our notice then. I have prepared the team poorly, the plan has not worked and it is my fault. The team was not prepared to play athletic basketball, they thought an easy game awaited them. We completely lost control, lost our minds The rivals felt blood and were better today, they were more excited. It was possible to feel their great energy and we were asleep. “
On Sunday, starting at 7:30 p.m., the Lithuanians will meet with the leaders of Group C, the Belgians (3/0), who began to act in the Vilnius bubble 90:62, crushing the Czech Republic (1 / 2).
The Lithuanian team will seek revenge for the unexpected failure in Mons last February at 65:86.
The last “window” of the qualifying rounds to the European Championship, in which the holders of two tickets for the final stage in 2022 will be announced, is awaiting next February. The Lithuanian Basketball Federation will once again look to host Group C teams in Vilnius.
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