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As a result of the November poll conducted by the magazine “Planet Football”, the best coach of the month in the Russian Superleague Kazan named coach Antanas UNICS Sireyka. December's win over CSKA UNICS confirmed that the Kazan team really is in very good shape.

Interestingly, almost a quarter of the head coach of Lithuanian Basketball Super League. From a small country so much class and highly skilled basketball coaches? What is the secret of Lithuanian basketball?
– In basketball in Lithuania, a long tradition. The impetus of universal love to win this game became the national team at the European championships in 1937 and the 1939th's. Well, what if Lithuania had been an achievement? And now such an international triumph. Basketball became a blockbuster. There was no boy who would not want to be like our champions. Soon after the Second World War in the USSR national team have played the Lithuanians, Lithuanian club set the tone in the union championship. There is no need to repeat the names of Lithuanian basketball players and coaches of the world champions, European and Olympic Games, they are well known.

– Coaching fate satisfied? Do all of the planned come true? Were there any disappointments?
– coaching, I compare the works of the artist, the poet. Inspiration masters – the source of his creativity. So in our case. You think, compare, invent. The team, which was created by a coach, it is like a poem as a painting can be admired, and can conversely, not like the audience. Perhaps no coach, who would not comprehend the failures. After the defeats of analyzing, looking for the cause. Sometimes reproach myself, what got in touch with basketball, why was the coach.

– Which of the coaches of the past century do you think the most outstanding personality?
– I'll name a few. Of course, this is Alexander Yakovlevich Gomel, our Styapas Butautas, coach, “Chicago Bulls” Phil Jackson, Vladimir Kondrashin.

– Does the coaching age heyday? Is it possible to achieve notable success as a coach, say, 30 or 70 years?
– It all depends on the individual. But, of course, without much experience the trainer is difficult to achieve great victories. If they are, here, rather, a matter of chance, the smile of fortune. If a coach older, much depends on his health, physical condition, ability to respond quickly and adequately respond to the changing game situation, carry heavy psychological overload.

– What are your impressions of the World Cup ended. What is interesting you noticed?
– A lot depends on the cohesion of the players on the court. There is no direct dependence of the efficiency of interaction of its complexity. Greek national team defeated the Americans at the expense of simple but well-established actions. The final game once again showed the great importance of security in modern basketball.

– What do you think of UNICS?
– Because of the participation in competitions as part of their national teams of brothers Lavrynovych, Samoilenko, Meshcheryakova in full force team met only two weeks before the start of the Russian championship. On games in Lithuania we clearly lacked another playmaker (Samoilenko at that time played in the qualifying tournament of Europe). so to speak fully about teamwork too early. But we are not alone in this situation. Overall, the team selected a good one. All the “big” with a cast. We need to create a single cohesive team where all are subject to the same goal, not playing for themselves and for the team.

– Your first impressions of Kazan?
– I'm not here for the first time. Came to the European Cup game, when directed “Siauliai”. It was a few years ago. Kazan now changed for the better, the city became very beautiful. It is surprising just how motorists drive through the city, no order. But perhaps, I can get used to it.

According to the press service of the Kazan UNICS. Alexander Ivanov, Down-the-line.com
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