Must be a lithuanian tradition

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In other news: Good night. I hope tony.psd finds and awesome jersey!

Tony.psd = Da Man

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• Baron can school Lithuanians (11 pts, 5-6 fg, 3 dimes, 2 stl).
  
• The Ws suck at rebounding, even against Lithuanians (20-11).
  
• Kosta actually exists.

• The Warriors are terrible at rebounding and shooting.
  
• Belinelli and Wright are both terrible, though you can't be as sure with Wright since Nellie only lets him play 47 seconds at a time.
  
• We're still pretty good at forcing turnovers.

oy, the 3 rooks played 40 min and produced 5 pts, 2 rebs, & 1 asst.

can't believe we're getting pounded on the boards when there biggest guy is a 34 yr old who at 7'2", 218 lbs. so he's basically skinnier than Jax.
http://www.eurobasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=LTU&Team=183

• Marco feeling the range: now 13 points on 5-12 floor
  
• Dubs rebounding much better now: Barnes and Harrington with a combined 17
  
• Fathead still intent on giving PT to Pat "Fvcking" Burke and lettting Wright play three minutes at the end of every quarter.

BD looked like God. SJax and Al Harrington both looked like they are ready for the season.  Al was especially impressive with his shot and his desire to board like an animal-it showed!

With all the talk of B. Wright going down to the D League, I was shocked at how with it he was.  At first he was like a dear in the headlights, but after he got pushed around a little bit, he woke up and threw a couple down that in person looked great.  He blocked 2 shots and had a few buckets that had touch on them.  His agility is good for a tall guy and he can take the ball up the floor if absolutely needed.  B. Wright seems like a guy that if he gets some floor time, he will develop into a solid PF.  He needs to get adjusted to the banging down low and all the defensive movement in the NBA, but after he realizes that, he will do well.

Pat Burk is gone.  He sucks.  BD made some awesome passes to Burk and he dropped many of them and when he did catch a pass from BD, he would miss the bucket all while being 1 foot away from the hoop?!  He made BD look bad.  With that said, he's gone-no doubt.

Tierre Brown is also outta here.  He is very one dimensional and will have a home somewhere except here.  He is fast, agile and has some good instincts, but he does the same thing every time; slash to the hoop and dish out a pass to someone's feet or he slashes to the hoop and might make a circus shot lay up.  He is NBA ready, just not right here right now.  He's gone-no doubt.

POB looked ok.  He missed a lot of 1 foot shots and also missed a couple of dunks/lay ups that were too easy to miss.  He got pushed around slightly, but kinda like B. Wright, he woke up after getting beat up on a little and changed some shots, grabbed some boards and was very agile for a guy his size.  He and B. Wright played at the same time for a while and those two together made people rethink their shot selection due to their massively long arms.  I see POB staying while B. Wright works a little in the D league to be fully ready for the NBA.

Kosta to Kosta Perovic is really a work in progress.  First thing to come to mind is how slow and gangly he is.  He's very uncoordinated and is very soft.  It looked like he has premature arthritis because he can barely move.  POB and Wright are MUCH better than he is and I don't see Kosta doing anything anytime soon.  D league HAS to be in his very near future.

Belinelli looked okay.  He took a lot of shots and missed many of them.  The thing I liked though is that he never gave up and kept firing away.  Once he gets comfortable with the system and the NBA in general, look out because he has the tools to be a very good player.  He hustles, has extremely quick hands, has good hoops IQ, he and BD have THE best court awareness, his passing is wonderful and he has a nice shot not to mention he will board up too.  Beli will be a great bench player-great I say.

Last we have the surprise of the season-BUIKE!  He is the real deal folks.  He had a series where he blocked a shot, got the outlet pass started, ran the wing, received the pass from Belinelli and drained an 18 foot jumpshot on the baseline.  WOW is all I can say.  He has worked his ass off and it really shows.  It's amazing how polished he looks and he defiantly HAS TO BE our SG thus far.  He boards like a beast, blocks shots, runs the floor and can slam it on someone's head or drain an outside shot.  I love this guy!  

12 Man Roster:

BD
Buike
Belinelli
Monta
THUD
SJax
Barnes
MP2
Harrington
Andris
POB
Croshere

15 Man Includes:

Lasme
Perovic
B. Wright

Same exact thing with Big Al.  He kept missing layups off of screens, layups on fast breaks and tip ins.  The only shots he made were from 18 feet and in-they looked great though.  All in all, Al's shots from 1 feet away were too soft.  He needs to put a little more touch and he'll be fine.  He, BD and SJax were the most impressive of the night.