Quiet leader / day
Duties also in farewell play
The veil of mystery around the last home game of the Latvian basketball team in the qualifying cycle of the 2025 European Championship was a bit confused not only by fans but also by journalists. Although the farewell game of John Sagittarius was not the most carefully stored mystery, which was also based on the name of the experienced and, without the workplace without the workplace, for the first time since last summer’s Olympic qualifying tournament, there was no official statement. Just a couple of unusual hints, which were not only in a more laconic and modest basketball player, but not even coach Luka banks, who had never had to look for a long time in other matters in other questions. « At first I was a bit against this type of farewell game, but thank you (men’s team coordinator) Emily Tom for persuading because it came to a very cool day – I will always remember it! » Supported later. Failure to exterior, pursuit of spotlights, or publicity was as characteristic as a smile, appreciating it all. And the performance of the basketball player was honored both at and at the end of the game, and at the end of the game, when the choir of 11,000 heads chanted the name of Janis Sagittarius.
In the fifteen years, the team leader has represented the national team in 123 games, scoring 1117 points and giving 448 assists, the last of the scores for a long time in honor of a team record. In four European Championships, he grew up with the team from the fast -shift finals in the final tournament in 2011 to one of its main favorites in 2017. Sagittarius’s individual career has also gradually walked into an upward curve, which has resulted in the 180 -game strongest club tournament in the Atlantic Ocean in Euroleague. Only last fall did Roland Schmitt beat this record. True, representing Euroleague’s leading units at a time when both the leading European club basketball roof organizations were unable to find a common language, since 2017, the ability of the basketball player to join the state unit has been severely restricted. In recent years, however, injuries have also been seen. The injury prevented John from leaving for the World Cup, but failed to qualify with the national team in two attempts in two attempts. « These years were very glamorous. The weather ran very quickly, really very fast. I’ve always been proud of putting a random shirt and said that there will never be a feeling of any club as in the team. I wish all young people.
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