EuroLeague Coach of the Year by Eurohoops: Sarunas Jasikevicius, young and restless

2018-05-12T14:58:39+00:00 2018-05-12T17:22:20+00:00.

John Rammas

12/May/18 14:58

Eurohoops.net

Sarunas Jasikevicius got Zalgiris back into the Final Four after 19 years and found no opposition in the vote of Eurohoops’ entire editorial team across all of its editions and was named coach of the year.

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This EuroLeague season isn’t even over yet and it’s already successful for Zalgiris. In what way? The explanation is simple: sixth in the regular season (18-12), qualification without the home court advantage against Olympiacos in the playoffs (1-3) and a return to the Final Four for the first time – second overall – since 1999, when they won the trophy.

In his third season in the competition as a coach – all of them with the Lithuanian team – Sarunas Jasikevicius could only be satisfied as a coach and the best among all, as voted almost unanimously by Eurohoops‘ editorial team across all of its editions: Greek, English, Turkish, Spanish, Russian and German.

The 42-year-old Lithuanian coach won in a landslide with 93.3% of votes and left 3.3% for Real Madrid‘s Pablo Laso and the same figure for Baskonia‘s Pedro Martinez.

SARUNAS JASIKEVICIUS
Zalgiris | 05/03/1976 | Lithuania

His first season as head coach was a kind of reconnaissance (2-10) and it was a half one. His second was an imporvement (14-16), but incomplete. His third is highly successful (21-13) and is still going. Jasikevicius gets better every year as he now counts 47.8% in three seasons with Zalgiris and is getting ready for his first Final Four as head coach after six Final Fours with four trophies as a player (Barcelona 2003, Maccabi Tel Aviv 2004 & 2005, Panathinaikos 2009).

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