Sarunas Jasikevicius
Sarunas Jasikevicius
Šarūnas "Šaras" Jasikevičius; born 5 March 1976) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and current head coach for Žalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian League. Standing at 6'5", he played the point guard position. He is a four time triple crown winner and former representative of the Lithuanian national team. Moreover, he is the only player in Euroleague history to win the competition with three different clubs. Due to his outstanding ability to win titles and important games, he often was...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth5 March 1976
believe mind noticeable playing point
I want to be a point guard; I believe that's my position. I don't mind playing two-guard, but I wasn't very comfortable there, and it was noticeable in my play.
exactly learn playing system
It's strange, but I wanted it, ... This is exactly what I was expecting. I have to learn the system and learn the way of playing here.
four good hear lost news
I mean, you've lost four in a row. You hear good news in the trade. You think you can go in and have a good practice, but then the first thing you hear is that. It's crazy.
lose losing running seems taking
I'm really running out of things to say. It's not about the losing; it's how we're losing. You can lose fighting, but we're not even doing that. It seems like we're taking the losing very lightly.
defense games guy involved might prefer running shooting sure teammates
I'm not the guy who will take many shots, ... Some games I might, just because of the way the defense will work. I haven't really been the one who's shooting a lot. I much more prefer to get my teammates involved and make sure the team is running properly. I would like to take 20 shots, don't get me wrong, but it might not happen.
basketball everybody goes good matters playing team time turning
I'm not worried; it's something everybody goes through. I'll be fine. It's not the first time that I've been in this situation. The thing that matters to me is that the team is playing good basketball and we're turning things around now.
ability best force hard mental mistakes players reason seem single team tough
I like the way that team plays. They seem to play hard and play the right way. The players really play hard and to best of their ability I believe. They don't seem to make a lot of mental mistakes or force many things. For some reason they play us tough every single time.
classy
They were there from day one. They did it in a very classy way.
advantage basketball chance fought gave good hung ourselves together
We hung in there, gave ourselves a chance to win, but didn't take advantage of it. We fought together and showed that we could be a good basketball team.
developing favors home move playing schedule seems standpoint
We all collectively have to know we can't have any letdowns because we're playing good. It seems like we're developing something good. The schedule favors us from the standpoint that we're home and we just need to keep it going because we can make a move on some teams.
level matter playing sort stop team
We've been a team that when we get a lead, we sort of stop playing as hard. For us, it's a matter of playing at the same level that we can for 48 minutes. If we can do that, we're going to be all right.
saying stop
As a group, we have to stop saying we have to do something and do it.
approach attitude bunch fighting game good guys healthy hopefully lately problems prove resilient
Sometimes we prove we're a resilient bunch and get through all these problems and show how good we can be. Sometimes we're not so good. Lately we've been all right. Lately our attitude and how we approach the game has been much better. We just have to keep fighting and hopefully we can get the guys healthy and make a run.
playoffs
Sometimes we are very good, and other times we are very bad. Hopefully, we can get in the playoffs and do well.