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After the Lithuanian Basketball League ended the season, the Kaunas Žalgiris team was still waiting until May 25 and was considering a possible extension of the Euroleague season. Still, the Euroleague season was cut short and the Žalgiris people began their vacation.
Admittedly, the vacation started just for the players – the club’s leaders and coaches are now starting the work year with the next team in mind.
Šarūnas Jasikevičius, the head coach of the Žalgiris team, is also thinking about it, who shared his thoughts on the season already ended, the Žalgiris team and the situation in European basketball in the Žalgiris arena.
“Whatever the situation, we will remember the season because of the pandemic.” For several months now, this has been talked about, debated and all the other issues are in second place, ”Jasikevičius highlighted the main highlight of the season when speaking to Žalgiris TV.
Kaunas, 44, who quickly brushed aside the pandemic, switched to a nice topic: basketball.
“On the basketball side, the season, although it was very difficult, I liked it. The good news is that the men did not give up and rose from below. This is the most important thing to me because character is the most important thing in our profession, as in any other profession. We finished the season with two titles, which is also good, as few teams in Europe will make it. Two titles and characters have made the most of this season, “said the strategist, who has been coaching the team since 2016.
According to Jasikevičius, who had an impressive career as a basketball player and is now winning titles in the coach’s chair, after the announcement of the end of the Euroleague season, ice cream should start moving in the basketball market, but there is no many plans to do it.
“It just caught our eye then. Of course we know everything more or less because the plans are presented absolutely always, even during the season, so the ideas are there. We know what is going on with the players, our managers are talking with them and their agents. Not that we work less during quarantine. It’s hard to think of this team because very few players are free agents. Many have different options, plus. It is too early to talk about it. The main thing is to save all the players, but now it is no longer in the hands of the coach, ”said the team leader, who has become a fan favorite in Kaunas. coach.
While working as head coach of the Kaunas “Žalgiris” team, Jasikevičius became the LKL champion five times, won the King Mindaugas Cup three times and was recognized as the best LKL coach of the year.
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