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Okay…so to put everything in simple – I’m done with this blog and gonna close it because of many various reasons. Thanks for those who read my non-senses and thoughts. Good luck and see you later!

Probably some of Lithuanians feel really frustrated seeing countrymen emigrants who represent other countries in sports very well. During the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey many people heard story of Lithuanian emigrants Andy and Leo Rautins who represent Canada.

Also last year in Lithuanian media it was very common to see a name of Tim Abromaitis who had great season in the NCAA playing for Notre Dame university. This summer Tim was invited to the camp of students national team of USA what is real acknowledgement.

Nevertheless, there are much more players like that and one of them – Nikolas Stauskas. 199cm tall small forward who is about to turn 18 years old this summer knows his origin and started to play basketball in Toronto, in sports club of Lithuanian emigrants “Aušra”.

This youngster’s had already played for Canada in under 16 years old (U-16) competition “2009 FIBA Americas U16 Championship”. Player who was seen by coaches of Canada’s U-16 national team lately got more and more attention from scouts of the NCAA universities. Right now high school player of St.Marks prep. school is rated at “Yahoo Rivals” as 99th prospect in class of 2012 (100th in ESPN) and 20th among small forwards.

For comparison, two players of Canada’s U-19 national team, Negus Webster-Chan and Sim Bhullar are rated respectively as 137th and 148th. Known as good player offensively, Nikolas had got many offers from such a known universities as Kansas and Wake Forest but he already commit to play for Michigan where he will represent “Wolverines”.

Family-type guy, who can speak in Lithuanian very hardly but understands language pretty well shared his thoughts with GreenHoops.zxq.net. As he says himself, he loves to spend time with his family and everything else is just basketball.

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Dulkys found this season hard - with many ups and downs. / Photo.: Reuters

Last summer when the coach of Lithuanian national basketball team announced candidates to play in the 2010 World Championship in Turkey, many Lithuanians heard the name of Deividas Dulkys for the first time. The shooting guard who left his home country to play college basketball and to get an education, couldn’t have even thought that he could be asked to join the Lithuanian national B team (second team) for training camp. However, due to an injury, he had to skip it last year but Lithuanian basketball fans didn’t forget about him. This year, everyone was hyped about his terrifying shooting percentage from beyond the arc and many of Lithuanian basketball started to discuss where he would end up after finishing his college career even despite the fact that not many people know how Dulkys plays so I spent some time analyzing his game. So, let’s start with this!

Name: Deividas Dulkys
Date of birth: 1988-03-12
Height: 198 cm
Weight: 88 kg
Nationality (-ies): Lithuanian
Best position:SG
Other positions: SF
Strengths: Shooting (nice technique, quick release, good accuracy), all-around athletics, speed, game in transition, personal defense.
Weaknesses: doesn’t seem to know passing fundamentals very well, too much team-guy (doesn’t try to carry everything on his shoulders while he could and he has chance to), isn’t very good at playing zone defense.
Current team: Florida State Seminoles (NCAA)

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So I end series of my LKL play-off’s reviews with game between Šiauliai and Juventus.

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