BC Juventus

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Juventus Utena
Juventus Utena logo
Nickname Juvė
Leagues Lithuanian Basketball League,
FIBA Europe Cup
Founded 1999
History Juventus (1999–2004)
Juventus LKSK (2004–2009)
Juventus (2009–present)
Arena Utena's Arena
(capacity: 2000)
Location Utena, Lithuania
Team colors Red, white and black
              
President Lithuania Žydrūnas Urbonas
Head coach Lithuania Antanas Sireika
Championships LKBL Champions (2005)
RKL Champions (2007)
BBL Challenge Cup (2011)
Lithuanian Basketball League Med 3.png (2015)
Website utenosjuventus.lt
Uniforms
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Home jersey
Team colours
Team colours
Home
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Away jersey
Team colours
Team colours
Away

BC Juventus (Lithuanian: Krepšinio klubas Juventus) is a professional Lithuanian basketball club which currently plays in Lithuanian Basketball League and Baltic Basketball League. BC Juventus basketball club was founded in 1999–2000 season by football player Nerijus Kuzmickas and debuted in the Naujametinis Utenos rajono Mero taurės turnyras (Utena's new year's mayor's cup tournament), the debut season was successful and BC Juventus took bronze in that tournament. Word Juventus means youth. BC Juventus was called "Youth" (Juventus) because of the young, non-professional players in their debut season. In the 2009–2010 season, BC Juventus team debuted in the Lithuania basketball super league LKL and took fourth place as they lost bronze final to Šiauliai. On 15 April 2011, Juventus basketball club was transferred from Baltic Basketball League Challenge Cup to Elite Division.[1]

Players

Retired numbers

Juventus Utena retired numbers
No. Player Position Tenure Ceremony Date
8 Lithuania Žydrūnas Urbonas SF, PF 2009–2012 9/29/2012

Current roster

BC Juventus roster
Players Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age
SG 5 Lithuania Stanionis, Edgaras 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 93 kg (205 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1988-02-24)24 February 1988
F 6 Lithuania Urbutis, Arminas 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 100 kg (220 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1986-05-15)15 May 1986
F 9 Lithuania Linkevičius, Martynas 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 93 kg (205 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1985-12-08)8 December 1985
C 11 Lithuania Želionis, Edgaras 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 96 kg (212 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1989-06-04)4 June 1989
F 12 Lithuania Kulvietis, Saulius 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 90 kg (198 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1991-02-14)14 February 1991
C 13 Lithuania Ždanavičius, Tomas 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 101 kg (223 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1996-06-23)23 June 1996
C 15 Lithuania Šerkšnas, Mantas 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 95 kg (209 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1996-09-05)5 September 1996
G 17 Lithuania Samėnas, Laurynas 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 82 kg (181 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1988-10-12)12 October 1988
G 22 United States Butterfield, Spencer 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 93 kg (205 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1991-10-11)11 October 1991
PG 25 Lithuania Nikitinas, Ugnius 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 78 kg (172 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (2000-06-19)19 June 2000
PF 34 Lithuania Dimša, Egidijus 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 95 kg (209 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1985-04-01)1 April 1985
SF 40 United States Lewis, Chavaughn 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 81 kg (179 lb) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. – (1993-02-01)1 February 1993
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured

Roster
Updated: 2015-02-19

Depth Chart

Pos. Starter Bench Bench Reserve
C Edgaras Želionis Arminas Urbutis
PF Egidijus Dimša Saulius Kulvietis
SF Martynas Linkevicius
SG Chavaughn Lewis Edgaras Stanionis
PG Spencer Butterfield Laurynas Samėnas

Season by season

Season Tier League Pos. Significant Events Baltic League Pos. LKF Cup
2003–04 3 LKBL 6 – – – –
2004–05 3 LKBL 1 Champions – – –
2005–06 3 RKL 3 Bronze medal – – –
2006–07 3 RKL 1 Promoted – – –
2007–08 2 NKL 4 Semifinalist – – –
2008–09 2 NKL 4 Semifinalist – – Fourth round
2009–10 1 LKL 4 Semifinalist Challenge Cup 5 First round
2010–11 1 LKL 4 Semifinalist Challenge Cup 1 Second round
2011–12 1 LKL 9 – Elite Division 11 Second round
2012–13 1 LKL 7 Quarterfinalist Elite Division 9 Second round
2013–14 1 LKL 7 Quarterfinalist Elite Division 13 Second round
2014–15 1 LKL 3 Bronze medal Elite Division 3 Bronze medal

Club history

2000–2007: foundation and participation in RKL

Juventus logo used from 2004 to 2009 seasons.
  • Juventus basketball club was founded in 1999 and debuted in Naujametinis Utenos rajono Mero taurės turnyras (Utena's new year's mayor's cup tournament) and took third place. First team roster consisted of other sports players: football players and one handball player. First team captain, which also founded Juventus basketball team was football player Nerijus Kuzmickas (played in Kauno Inkaras team), now Šiauliai football academy, child and teenage coach. In the debut Juventus season also played: Egidijus Varnas (FK Ekranas), Tomas Keraitis, Tomas Karvelis and others.
  • In 2003–2004 season, Juventus basketball team was coached by Rimvydas Vaitkus. Juventus debuted in Lithuania basketball B league and in their debut season, BC Juventus took sixth place.
  • After year, in 2004–2005 season, Juventus basketball team was coached by Mindaugas Kildišius. Juventus basketball team first time in the club history won LKBL championship (same like RKL) and won right to participate in the LKAL championship (same like NKL). But because of various bureaucracy barriers, Juventus basketball team wasn't permitted to debut in the second-tier Lithuania basketball league.
  • During 2005–2006 season, BC Juventus took third place in RKL tournament.
  • After year, in 2006–2007 season Juventus basketball team won RKL championship once again and in transition match to the NKL championship, BC Juventus won against Kauno LKKA-Atletas basketball team. But this wasn't the end for Juventus in the 2006–2007 season as BC Juventus went until third Lithuania basketball federation (LKF) stage and only there, after two unremitting matches lost to Klaipėdos Neptūnas. Same year, team coach Mindaugas Kildišius, was named the best RKL championship coach.

2007–2009: NKL

File:Zydrunas Urbonas by Augustas Didzgalvis.jpg
Žydrūnas Urbonas joined Juventus in 2009 and later became president of the club.
  • In 2007–2008 season Utena's basketball team debuted in the NKL championship and won regular season (25 wins and 7 loses), however in the final standings BC Juventus took only fourth place. In the end of 2007, Juventus guard Raimondas Ambrulaitis was named "Lithuania basketball discovery of the year", team coach Mindaugas Kildišius was named the best 2007–2008 NKL season coach.
  • After year, in 2008–2009 season, Juventus basketball team won NKL regular season once again and participated in NKL championship semi-finals. In 2009, Juventus wasn't able to participate in the NKL finals, because of that team coach Mindaugas Kildišius retired from his position. Also because of that, Mindaugas Kildišius assistant Rolandas Urkis coached Juventus basketball team until the end of the season.[2] On 15 June 2009 LKF decided to let Juventus basketball team participate in the Lithuania super basketball league LKL because of the commercial principles.[3] For the permission to participate in the LKL, Juventus basketball team had to pay 350 thousand LTL.[4]

2009–present: LKL

  • On 20 August 2009 Gintaras Kručkauskas became main Juventus basketball team coach.[5] The 2009–2010 LKL season was the most successful in the club history as Juventus basketball team took fourth place in the LKL championship.[6]
  • On 7 July 2010 Robertas Giedraitis became main BC Juventus coach.[7]
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BC Juventus, prior the 2014-15 season (LKL bronze medalists).
  • During 2010–2011 season, BC Juventus first time in the club history became Baltic Basketball League Challenge Cup champions.[8] Also BC „Juventus" made a huge surprise as they eliminated 7-time LKL Bronze streaker Šiauliai in the first round of LKL playoffs (first game: 105:94,[9] second game: 91:81[10]). After eliminating Šiauliai in quarter-final, BC Juventus reached LKL semi finals and met Lithuania basketball powerhouse Žalgiris. On 27 April 2011 BC Juventus lost first game at Kaunas Sports Hall against Žalgiris with result 63–95,[11] the second match took place on 29 April 2011 in Utena. Juventus lost the second game too and had to fight for LKL Bronze against Rūdupis.[12] Juventus lost first Bronze game at Prienai with result 65–79,[13] the second game was unsuccessful for Juventus too as they lost it in their home arena in Utena with result 73–98.[14] The third game took place in Prienai, which Juventus team lost with result 83–84,[15] because of that they lost Bronze series 0–3 against Rūdupis and took fourth place in the LKL championship that season.
  • In the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 seasons, Juventus did not accomplish anything notable. After the 2011-2012 season, where Juventus missed the playoffs entirely, Robertas Giedraitis was fired as head coach. After Rytis Vaišvila was hired as head coach, Juventus made the playoffs in 2013, and fought valiantly against BC Lietuvos rytas, though losing the series 0-2.
  • In the 2013-2014 season, Juventus replaced coach Vaišvila with former longtime Žalgiris player, coach and sports director Vitoldas Masalskis. Despite high hopes, the season started poorly, and coach Masalskis was replaced with Virginijus Sirvydis, former longtime player in the LKL. The move helped the team regroup and reach the playoffs, but lost to BC Prienai. The team also played in the BBL Elite division, but didn't make the playoff stage for two straight seasons.
File:Rashaun Broadus (2014-15 Juventus season).jpg
Rashaun Broadus, the star of the team in the 2014–15 season.
  • In 2014–15 LKL season the club reached new highs. Before the season, the well-known Rashaun Broadus was signed, and quickly became the leader of the team. The team took 5th place during the regular LKL season and in the quarterfinals they met the 4th seed BC Pieno žvaigždės. After the impressive series, Juventus overcome Pieno žvaigždės 3–2 and qualified into the LKL semifinals for the third time in club's history.[16] Despite having a regular season victory over BC Žalgiris, Juventus was no match for BC Žalgiris in the semifinals, losing the series 0:3. Though, Juventus shockingly defeated Euroleague participant Neptūnas 3:2 and won LKL bronze medals for the first time in club's history.[17] Rashaun Broadus led the team with 25 points and 10 assists in the crucial game. His comment following the game was: "We don't care what anybody thinks about us. We played hard every game. Everybody told us that we will be down 3–0 and now we won medals".[18] Juventus also finished 4th in the LKF Cup, as well as winning the bronze medals in the BBL, capping off the most successful season in club history.
  • In 2015-2016 season Utenos Juventus was invited compete in ULEB Eurocup for the first time in the club history as LKL bronze medalists.[19] Though, they decided to choose the FIBA Europe Cup version instead.[20] By preparing for their debut in the first-ever European competition, BC Juventus signed with former Lithuania men's national basketball team head coach Antanas Sireika to replace the LKL bronze medals winning Dainius Adomaitis, who signed with Neptūnas Klaipėda.[21][22] Juventus qualified into the second stage of the FIBA Europe Cup by being the second-best team among teams which took third place in their groups.[23] After successfully playing at the Round of 32 where they took first place in the group, Juventus advanced into the playoffs but there they were immediately eliminated by the Croatian powerhouse Cibona Zagreb after two close games (78–83, 84–87).[24]

Club name changes

Head coaches

Notable players

Mascot

From 2012 BC Juventus has its own mascot, named Juvis. Juvis is a red color devil, wearing the blue color sneakers and mostly carries the golden fork. The golden fork form reminds horseshoe, symbolizing the Utena city coat of arms.

Previous seasons rosters

Team roster of 2009–2010 season

Nr. Name, second name Position Height Weight Date of birth Previous club
10 Lithuania Gintautas Matulis 3 Small Forward 195 cm 095 kg (1986-12-06)6 December 1986 Lithuania „Juventus"
4 Lithuania Darius Pakamanis 2 Shooting Guard 192 cm 080 kg (1981-09-08)8 September 1981 Lithuania „Šiauliai“
8 Lithuania Žydrūnas Urbonas 3 Small Forward 198 cm 100 kg (1976-10-04)4 October 1976 Lithuania „Alytus“
7 Lithuania Audrius Mineikis 4 Power Forward 201 cm 098 kg (1977-07-18)18 July 1977 Lithuania „Juventus"
11 Lithuania Tomas Jasiulionis 5 Center 208 cm 115 kg (1986-01-11)11 January 1986 United States St. John's
21 Lithuania Paulius Morkeliūnas 4 Power Forward 201 cm 105 kg (1985-01-22)22 January 1985 Lithuania „Neptūnas“
22 Lithuania Arūnas Vasiliauskas 4 Power Forward 200 cm 105 kg (1985-03-22)22 March 1985 Lithuania „Aisčiai“
31 Lithuania Jonas Elvikis 3 Small Forward 195 cm 092 kg (1982-07-09)9 July 1982 Ukraine „Sumychimprom“
14 Lithuania Šarūnas Vėlius 4 Power Forward 207 cm 102 kg (1983-06-11)11 June 1983 Lithuania „Kaunas TRIOBET“
5 Georgia (country) Nikoloz Vashakidze 1 Point Guard 192 cm 088 kg (1985-06-14)14 June 1985 Lithuania „Abro Universitetas“
15 Lithuania Virginijus Praškevičius 5 Center 206 cm 112 kg (1974-03-04)4 March 1974 Lithuania „Šiauliai“
13 Lithuania Tomas Gaidamavičius 1 Point Guard 192 cm 86 kg (1982-07-19)19 July 1982 Lithuania „Synthesia“
Coaches
Players which left „Juventus" during the season

Team roster of 2010–2011 season

Nr. Name, Second Name Position Height Weight Date of birth Previous club
3 Lithuania Žygimantas Šeštokas 2 Shooting Guard 196 cm 88 kg (1986-03-30)30 March 1986 Lithuania „Meresta“
5 Lithuania Gediminas Maceina 1 Point Guard 188 cm 88 kg (1984-08-28)28 August 1984 Lithuania „Techasas“
8 Lithuania Žydrūnas Urbonas 3, 4 Small Forward, Power Forward 198 cm 100 kg (1976-10-04)4 October 1976 Lithuania „Juventus"
9 Lithuania Marius Pociukonis 1, 2 Point Guard, Shooting Guard 189 cm 80 kg (1982-04-01)1 April 1982 Romania „Mureš“
10 Lithuania Gintautas Matulis 2, 3 Shooting Guard, Small Forward 195 cm 95 kg (1986-12-06)6 December 1986 Lithuania „Juventus"
11 Lithuania Vaidas Čepukaitis 4, 5 Power Forward, Center 207 cm 104 kg (1989-05-16)16 May 1989 Lithuania „Žalgiris-Sabonio mokykla“
12 Lithuania Tomas Markevičius 3 Small Forward 192 cm 86 kg (1985-06-29)29 June 1985 Lithuania „Juventus KKSC“
14 Lithuania Aurimas Adomaitis 4, 5 Power Forward, Center 203 cm 96 kg (1987-04-05)5 April 1987 Lithuania „Alytus“
17 Lithuania Jonas Elvikis 2, 3 Shooting Guard, Small Forward 195 cm 92 kg (1982-07-09)9 July 1982 Lithuania „Juventus"
22 Lithuania Arūnas Vasiliauskas 3, 4 Small Forward, Power Forward 200 cm 105 kg (1985-03-22)22 March 1985 Lithuania „Juventus"
24 Lithuania Marius Prekevičius 1, 2 Point Guard Shooting Guard 195 cm 90 kg (1984-05-22)22 May 1984 Lithuania „Šiauliai“
25 Lithuania Aurimas Kieža 3, 4 Small Forward, Power Forward 203 cm 97 kg (1982-10-25)25 October 1982 Italy „Pallacanestro“
Coaches
Players which left „Juventus" during the season

Team roster of 2011–2012 season

Nr. Name, Second Name Position Height Weight Date of birth Previous club
4 Lithuania Aras Bražiūnas 1 Point Guard 190 cm 75 kg (1994-01-16)16 January 1994 Lithuania „Juventus-KKSC"
5 Lithuania Gediminas Maceina 1 Point Guard 188 cm 83 kg (1984-08-28)28 August 1984 Lithuania „Techasas"
8 Lithuania Žydrūnas Urbonas 3, 4 Small Forward, Power Forward 198 cm 100 kg (1976-10-04)4 October 1976 Lithuania „Juventus"
9 Lithuania Tomas Gaidamavičius 1 Point Guard 191 cm 86 kg (1982-07-19)19 July 1982 Cyprus „Apollon"
10 Lithuania Gintautas Matulis 2, 3 Shooting Guard, Small Forward 195 cm 95 kg (1986-12-06)6 December 1986 Lithuania „Juventus"
11 Ukraine Roman Gumenyuk 5 Center 220 cm 120 kg (1987-09-19)19 September 1987 Lithuania „Šiauliai“
12 Lithuania Mantas Vilimas 3 Small Forward 198 cm 90 kg (1989-07-11)11 July 1989 Lithuania „VPU-Šviesa“
13 Lithuania Darius Pakamanis 2 Small Forward 192 cm 88 kg (1981-09-08)8 September 1981 Lithuania „Melilla“
15 Lithuania Karolis Petrukonis 5 Center 212 cm 115 kg (1987-05-18)18 May 1987 Lithuania „Lietuvos rytas“
22 Lithuania Arūnas Vasiliauskas 3 Small Forward 200 cm 100 kg (1985-03-22)22 March 1985 Lithuania „Aisčiai“
30 Lithuania Žygimantas Šeštokas 2 Shooting Guard 196 cm 88 kg (1986-03-30)30 March 1986 Lithuania „Meresta“
33 Lithuania Vaidotas Volkus 4 Power Forward 203 cm 95 kg (1985-05-21)21 May 1985 Lithuania „Techasas“
Coaches

References

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