Turbulent days in the home of Lithuanian basketball.
The painfully ended first stage of the world championship qualifiers and the dissatisfaction of some national team basketball players have strongly shaken the main leader Rimas Kurtinaitis’s position.
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According to 15min, the head of the “Lithuanian Basketball” association is intensively holding talks with candidates to replace 66-year-old R. Kurtinaitis, who has been the national team’s general since October 2024, when he took over as head coach after Kazys Maksvytis resigned following failure in the Olympic qualifiers in Puerto Rico.
R. Kurtinaitis successfully passed the 2025 European Championship qualification, finishing 5th in the main tournament, but the legendary player’s and coach’s seat heated up again during the first stage of the 2027 world championship qualifiers, where our team, in a group with Italy, Iceland, and Great Britain, won only 3 out of 6 games and seriously complicated their chances of securing a ticket to the World Cup in Qatar.
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It is estimated that in the second qualification stage, at least 4, and probably 5 wins will be needed in 6 matches against teams from Turkey, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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According to 15min, in the race for the head coach position
