15min last week wrote that Rimas Kurtinaitis, who remains as head coach, will arrange a significantly changed lineup for the fourth FIBA “window,” in which only five players from the beginning of last month in Bologna will remain.
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15min reports that from the former lineup, invitations to the first window of the second world championship qualifiers have been accepted by Augustas Marčiulionis (24 years old, 193 cm), Matas Jogėla (28 years old, 201 cm), Gytis Radzevičius (31 years old, 197 cm), Ąžuolas Tubelis (24 years old, 208 cm), and Marekas Blaževičius (24 years old, 211 cm).
On August 28, Rimas Kurtinaitis’s team will meet undefeated Turkey in Istanbul, and three days later will host the Bosnia and Herzegovina players in Vilnius.
After the first stage, the national team, which has complicated its position significantly, holds fourth place in Group J with three wins and three losses, so to catch the departing world championship train, it will likely need to win five of the remaining six games.
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15min portal knows the eleventh player who said “yes” to the national team, and the name of a possible twelfth candidate is also emerging.
Eight players on this list play for Lithuanian clubs, one in Italy, while the remaining three players are still looking for a new career stop.
