By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Before the game between Greece and Lithuania, the Lithuanian coach spoke in a derogatory manner about Missas, calling him the “weak spot” of the Greek national team. Missas answered after Greece’s win and even Lithuanian national team coach Dainius Adomaitis said that “some people from Lithuania gave motivation to Greeks”.
However, Pacesas, speaking on “Lietuvos Rytas TV” as “15min.lt” is reporting, insists that he was right and he even attacks Sabonis about the failure of the Lithuanian national team: “What did I say? I said that Missas comes from women’s basketball and junior national teams, and I thought that Dainius Adomaitis will have an advantage with his experience. I don’t take my words back. I only think that on that game Nick Calathes was the head coach”.
Pacesas didn’t stop there but also asked indirectly for Arvydas Sabonis to resign from being the federation president: “He is our symbol. Everyone is hiding behind his back. And that’s very bad. The executive committee is some kind of a joke. Now there is a bad result for the team. And it’s impossible to conceal it. The federation is making us a team that will be happy to be in the quarterfinals. This is what basketball country we are? We are old fashioned. Sarunas Jasikevicius and Rimas Kurtinaitis are the two best coaches in Lithuania. There are no other coaches at this level. Arvydas Sabonis, when he appointed Dainius Adomaitis, said that he was taking responsibility. We all know what this means”.