Neptūnas (basketball club)

BC „Neptūnas“
Leagues	Lithuanian Basketball League, Baltic Basketball League
Founded	1962
History	Klaipėdos Maistas 1962 - 1964 Klaipėdos Neptūnas 1964 - present
Arena	Švyturio Arena (capacity: 5500)
Location	Klaipėda, Lithuania
Team colors	Blue and White
President	Valentinas Greičiūnas
Team Manager	Osvaldas Kurauskas
Head coach	Paulius Juodis
Championships	None
Website	bcneptunas.lt
Uniforms
Home Away

BC „Neptūnas“ logo used until 2010-2011 season

BC „Neptūnas“ (Lithuanian: Krepšinio Klubas Neptūnas) is the major basketball club of Klaipėda, Lithuania participating in Lithuanian Basketball League and Baltic Basketball League. BC „Maistas“ (English: „Food“) basketball club was founded in 1962. In 1964, BC „Maistas“ name was changed to BC „Neptūnas“ which is used until now.

The club carries the name of the Roman sea god Neptune.

History

In 1966 "Neptūnas" won "Žalgiris" friendship championship and next year with the same roster became runner-ups.

Since 1970 there was lots of changes in the team, coaches and players left team and they been changed with new team members, so the team didn't achieved better results. On 1975 Klaipėda's community decided to change team from it's foundations which base was people form Klaipėda and Samogitia region, which also finished studies in Vilnius and Kaunas cities. There was young and perspective players, whose energy helped to reach better results in two years period. Which includes 3rd Place in Lithuanian Spartakiada; in 1981 and 1982 they became runner-ups of newspaper "Sport" championship, and also in 1983 they became champions of Soviet Union Professional Union championship.

However in 1988 fortune left the team and the been relegated from Lithuanian Top league. Whatsoever after two years when Lithuanian Basketball League been formed they been invited to join the league as one out of eight best teams in Lithuania. However at the beginning team couldn't show good result, but it improves and achieves better results year after year.

Current roster

BC Neptūnas rosterv · C		1	Lithuania !	Galdikas, Simas	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	103 kg (227 lb)	&1000000000000002400000024
2.0 !SG	2	Lithuania !	Runkauskas, Marius	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	&1000000000000002500000025
1.5 !G	7	Lithuania !	Mažeika, Martynas (C)	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	&1000000000000002600000026
1.0 !PG	8	Lithuania !	Girdžiūnas, Mindaugas	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	&1000000000000002200000022
2.0 !SG	9	Lithuania !	Ruikis, Mantas	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	96 kg (212 lb)	&1000000000000002600000026
4.5 !PF	11	Lithuania !	Valeika, Artūras	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	&1000000000000002600000026
3.0 !SF	12	Lithuania !	Danys, Raimundas	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	&1000000000000002600000026
4.0 !F	13	Latvia !	Brunins, Arturs	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	&1000000000000002900000029
6.0 !C	14	USA !	Onuaku, Arinze	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	125 kg (276 lb)	&1000000000000002400000024
6.0 !C	42	USA !	Bonner, Luke	2.16 m (7 ft 1 in)	109 kg (240 lb)	&1000000000000002600000026
1.0 !PG	55	Lithuania !	Dainys, Evaldas	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	&1000000000000002900000029

Head coach

• Paulius Juodis

Assistant coach(es)

• Egidijus Ženevičius

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Legend

• (C) Team captain

• Injured

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Roster
Updated: 15-09-2011

Depth Chart

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Bench	Reserve
C	Arinze Onuaku	Luke Bonner	Simas Galdikas
PF	Artūras Valeika	Arturs Brunins
SF	Mantas Ruikis	Raimundas Danys
SG	Martynas Mažeika	Marius Runkauskas
PG	Evaldas Dainys	Mindaugas Girdžiūnas

Squad changes for the 2011/12 season

In

No. Position Player 55 PG Evaldas Dainys (from Rūdupis) 14 C Arinze Onuaku (from Rio Grande Valley Vipers) 12 SF Raimundas Danys (from Naglis) 11 PF Artūras Valeika (from Cáceres CB) 2 SG Marius Runkauskas (from UJAP Quimper)

Out

No. Position Player 22 PF Valdas Vasylius (to BC Šiauliai) 15 SF David McClure (to Kedainiai Triobet) 8 SG Julius Žurna (to Techasas) – PG Dustin Heiman – SG Eric Kendall Hayes

Out On Loan

No. Position Player 14 SF Modestas Kumpys (to Nafta-Universitetas) 7 SF Tadas Maželis (to Nafta-Universitetas) 0 PG Mindaugas Stašys (to BC Mažeikiai)

Club achievements

Season	League	Pos.	Significant Events	Baltic League	Pos.	LKF Cup	European Competitions
1993–94	LKL	10	–	–	–	–	–
1994–95	LKL	10	–	–	–	–	–
1995–96	LKL	7	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–
1996–97	LKL	5	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–
1997–98	LKL	9	–	–	–	–	–
1998–99	LKL	8	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	Played Korać Cup
1999–00	LKL	8	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	Played Korać Cup
2000–01	LKL	5	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–
2001–02	LKL	8	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–
2002–03	LKL	6	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–
2003–04	LKL	10	–	–	–	–	Played FIBA Europe Cup
2004–05	LKL	4	Semifinalist	Elite Division	5	–	–
2005–06	LKL	5	Quarterfinalist	Elite Division	10	–	–
2006–07	LKL	4	Semifinalist	Elite Division	12	–	–
2007–08	LKL	5	Quarterfinalist	Elite Division	16	Fourth qualified	–
2008–09	LKL	4	Semifinalist	Challenge Cup	6	Eighth finalist	–
2009–10	LKL	5	Quarterfinalist	Challenge Cup	4	Quarterfinalist	–
2010–11	LKL	8	Quarterfinalist	Challenge Cup	4	Fourth qualified	–
2011–12	LKL			Challenge Cup			–

LKL playoffs

• 2001-2002 season – 8th (lost quarter-finals against „Lietuvos Rytas“ 0:2)
• 2002-2003 season – 6th (lost quarter-finals against „Šiauliai“ 0:2)
• 2004-2005 season – 5th (lost quarter-finals against „Šiauliai“ 1:2)
  

  Tomas Delininkaitis a World Championship Bronze medalist started his career in „Neptūnas“.
• 2006-2007 season - 4th (lost Bronze final against „Šiauliai“ 0:3)
• 2008-2009 season – 4th (lost Bronze final against „Šiauliai“ 2:3)
• 2009-2010 season – 5th (lost quarter-finals against „Juventus“ 0:2)
• 2010-2011 season – 8th (lost quarter-finals against „Žalgiris“ 0:2)

Notable players

• Eurelijus Žukauskas (1994–1997)
• Svajūnas Airošius (1995–2000)
• Donatas Zavackas (1996–1998,2003)
• Arvydas Macijauskas (1997–1999)
• Vidas Ginevičius (2000–2001)
• Tomas Delininkaitis (2001–2003)
• Michailas Anisimovas (2007–2008)
• Arvydas Eitutavičius (2008–2009)
• Valdas Vasylius (2008–2009, 2010–2011
• Martynas Mažeika (2008–2009, 2010-)

Former Coaches

Robertas Usaris (1964–1968) Antanas Kašiuba (1968–1974) Saulius Vilkas (1974–1983) Eugenijus Milkontas (1983–1993) Stasys Kaupys (1993–1995)

Grigorijus Pancerovas (1995–1996) Rimas Girskis (1996–1999) Grigorijus Pancerovas (1994–2004) Robertas Kuncaitis (2004–2005) Dean Murray (2005–2006)

Robertas Kuncaitis (2006–2007) Aloyzas Rudys (2007–2008) Rytis Vaišvila (2008–2009) Paulius Juodys (2009–2010) Rytis Vaišvila (2010)

Robertas Kuncaitis (2010–2011) Paulius Juodys (2011–present)

Team Management

Board President

Eugenijus Gentvilas

Board Members

Rimantas Taraškevičius Arnoldas Šileika Antanas Gricius Edmondas Dargis Valentinas Greičiunas Jonas Dumašius Algimantas Pavilionis

Club Director

Osvaldas Kurauskas

Referrals

External links

• Official website of Neptūnas (Lithuanian)
• BC Neptūnas LKL.lt (Lithuanian)