{"id":348448,"date":"2025-12-14T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348448\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:52:16","slug":"jasikevicius-to-eurohoops-the-logic-is-to-keep-winning-and-everyone-will-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348448\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasikevi\u010dius to Eurohoops: \u201cThe logic is to keep winning and everyone will shut up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By George Adamopoulos \/\u00a0gadamopoulos@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2025 EuroLeague champion with Fenerbah\u00e7e<\/a>, \u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius, addressed a wide range of topics speaking to Eurohoops, including the fact that five teams have already changed head coaches since the start of the season.<\/p>\n

Commenting on two of the greatest coaches in European basketball history \u2014 \u017deljko Obradovi\u0107 and Ettore Messina, who stepped down from their positions at Partizan and Olimpia Milano<\/a> \u2014 Jasikevi\u010dius stressed how unforgiving the environment has become.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason they stayed at the top for 30 years is that they kept reinventing themselves. \u017deljko and Ettore didn\u2019t get more stupid with time and experience. Over the years, they constantly showed the ability to adapt. When you don\u2019t win, the narrative is already written \u2014 people say you\u2019re too old. But that\u2019s not true. They\u2019ve been doing this for 30 years. The biggest logic is simple: just win, and everyone will shut up. If two of the best coaches in European basketball history are losing their jobs or deciding to walk away, imagine what it\u2019s like for the rest of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the greatest European point guards of his generation, the Lithuanian tactician also reflected on the evolution of the position.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no point guards anymore \u2014 now they\u2019re all scorers. That\u2019s also fine, because it puts huge pressure on the defense and forces adjustments, and everyone plays faster. In one interview I didn\u2019t mention Nick (Calathes), so he got mad at me,\u201d Jasikevi\u010dius said with a smile. \u201cI have Wade Baldwin, who is a really good passer, involves others and enjoys doing it. That position seems to be disappearing, but players are different now, and you have to adapt.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Jasikevi\u010dius also commented on the expansion of the EuroLeague and the increasingly congested calendar faced by teams competing on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand why the EuroLeague is moving to 20 teams, but with FIBA windows and national championships, there\u2019s no question it\u2019s brutal.\u00a0I don\u2019t worry about that, though. I don\u2019t make those decisions. I just wake up, go to my office and try to do my best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, the Fenerbah\u00e7e<\/a> head coach shared his thoughts on the future of European basketball and the NBA Europe project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think European basketball is much better than people sometimes think. We\u2019re improving every year \u2014 fan bases are growing, media exposure is increasing. And yet we\u2019re somehow up for grabs, with organizations like the NBA that don\u2019t really care what\u2019s happening in Europe \u2014 it\u2019s all about the business model. The European basketball model is still one of the last truly pure ones. Every game is a dogfight. Fans go home disappointed, coaches want to lock themselves inside the house after losses. In the NBA it\u2019s more like, \u2018Let\u2019s move on to the next one.\u2019 I hope we don\u2019t lose what we have, no matter how financially powerful the NBA is or how realistic its move into Europe may be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By George Adamopoulos \/\u00a0gadamopoulos@eurohoops.net The 2025 EuroLeague champion with Fenerbah\u00e7e, \u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius, addressed a wide range of topics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-348448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}