In the upcoming month, the team will spend some time in Kaunas, Klaipėda, Panevėžys, and Vilnius. Also, players will participate in a tournament in Greece. The preparations will end on 1st of September in Kaunas. Meanwhile, sportsmen are spending some time in Palanga where they are concentrating on stamina and physical readiness.
In the first EuroBasket 2013 matches Lithuanians will compete against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Latvia.
Lithuanian basketball players:
Shooting guards:
Mantas Kalnietis (Krasnodar 'Lokomotiv'), Martynas Pocius (Madrid 'Real'), Renaldas Seibutis (Vilnius 'Lietuvos Rytas'), Martynas Gecevičius (Pireaus 'Olympiacos'), Adas Juškevičius (Kaunas 'Žalgiris'),Tomas Delininkaitis (Cherkasy 'Mavpy'), Vytenis Čižauskas (Valladolid 'Blancos de Rueda');
Small Forward/Power forward:
Kšyštof Lavrinovič (Kaunas 'Žalgiris'), Donatas Motiejūnas (Huston 'Rockets'), Jonas Mačiulis (Athens 'Panathinaikos'), Linas Kleiza (Toronto 'Raptors'), Mindaugas Kuzminskas (Kaunas 'Žalgiris');
Center:
Darjuš Lavrinovič (Kaunas 'Žalgiris'), Robertas Javtokas (Kaunas 'Žalgiris'), Jonas Valančiūnas (Toronto 'Raptors').
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