Participants of „adidas Talent Camp“ welcome extraordinary guest. Two practices for them where conducted by Slovenian coach Tomaž Brinec. Tomaž Brinec – strength and conditioning coach of National Basketball team of Slovenia. He came to Lithuania directly from Ljubljana, where he was personally working with basketball stars – brothers Goran and Zoran Dragic. During practice at “adidas Talent Camp”, T. Brinec immediate received a question, what will be the winners of World Basketball Championship.
„Of course, Slovenia, – with smile said T. Brinec. – But my wife would say you, that Lithuanians”.
Lithuanian basketball is not stranger. From 2011 for two years he was working as a coach in Vilniaus “Lietuvos Rytas” basketball team. He was working with such a coaches as Aleksand Dzikic, Darius Maskoliūnas and Dirk Bauermann. T. Brinec worked with Toronto “Raptors” center Jonas Valančiūnas as a physical training coach.
“Lithuania and Slovenia – similar countries and our basketball is similar, – said T. Brinec. – These are two small basketball countries. Lithuania has about 3 millions people, Slovenia – 2 millions. We are young countries, so we have to do everything better then larger states, to draw attention to ourselves. We can’t lose our basketball players, so must prove that small countries can fight”.
T. Brinec contacted a lot of the players of “adidas Talent Camp”, answered the questions and shared his experience. Coach of Slovenian National basketball team showed exercises for speed and jump.
“I believe that such a camp as “adidas Talent Camp” is really necessary for young basketball players, – said T. Brinec. – Not this time, but always, you can see that many young players want to hard work and improve their skills. Young guys can do everything to become better players. At this camp, I showed young players how to run correctlt, how to make the first move to be quicker in the field. I showed them how how they work themselves can be stronger. We talked how important it is to perform all exercises together if you want better result”.
T.Brinec, who last season worked with Novo Mesto Krka team and who became a champion of Slovenia, said that players didn’t learn a lot of elementary thing in childhood and later do the same mistakes. The same problem as in Lithuania is in Slovenia.
„This time, during „adidas Talent Camp“ I saw that guys don’t know how to run correctly. They don’t know how to build their feet, how to change direction, – said T. Brinec. – Sometimes this incorrect running is risky, because guys change direction while being in the most dangerous position. It is very big problem. It true, the same problem we have in Slovenia. New generation of technology is growing now. Children prefer to stay at home instead of yard. They don’t need taking a walk in the forest, jogging or cycling.
During his career, T. Brinec has been working with already mentioned brothers G. and Z. Dragic, former player of Kaunas “Žalgiris” Mirza Begic, Boštjan Nachbar, Jaka Blažič, Erzem Lorbek, Jaka Lakovič and lot of others. Coach is graduated studies of athletes physical education at the University of KIF (Zagreb, Croatia).
Photos from practices of T. Brinec here and here…
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