Martynas Pocius

Martynas Pocius
Player information
birthday	April 28, 1986
place of birth	Vilnius , LiSSR , Soviet Union
size	196 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
High school	Holderness
college	Duke
Club information
society	Žalgiris Kaunas
league	LKL
Jersey number	7th
Clubs as active
2009–2011 Žalgiris Kaunas 2011–2013 Real Madrid Since 2013 Žalgiris Kaunas 0
National team
Since 2010	Lithuania

Martynas Pocius medal table
Basketball (men)
Lithuania
World Championship
bronze	2010 Turkey	Lithuania

Martynas Pocius (born April 28, 1986 in Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian basketball player . Pocius plays in the positions of shooting guard and small forward .

career

Martynas Pocius already played in high school in the United States at the private Holderness School in Plymouth (New Hampshire) . After his graduation in 2005, he went to Duke University , where he played under coach Mike Krzyzewski for the Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA .

In 2009 he finished his studies in international comparative studies and then went back to his homeland, where he signed with Žalgiris Kaunas . In his first season he won the BBL with a 73:66 in the final against Lietuvos rytas Vilnius , in 2010/11 he finally won the triple of the BBL, championship and national cup with his team . In the summer of 2011, Pocius moved to the Spanish club Real Madrid , where he signed a contract that ran until 2013. Already in his first season Pocius was able to conquer the cup with his team . At the beginning of the 2012/13 season he won the Spanish Supercup , he also reached the final of the Euroleague with Real Madrid and ended the year with a victory in the championship . However, he himself fell out from the end of February due to an ankle injury and his contract with the Spaniards was not renewed. For the 2013/14 season he returned to Žalgiris Kaunas.

National team

Martynas Pocius played as a junior with Lithuania in the U-18 European Championship in 2004 and the U-20 European Championship in 2006. He finished both tournaments as the best scorer of his team. With the senior national team he took part in the 2010 World Cup and won the bronze medal. Pocius was part of the Lithuanian squad for the 2011 European Championship in their own country, his team finished the tournament in fifth place.

Achievements and honors

Žalgiris Kaunas

• BBL (2): 2009/10, 2010/11
• Lithuanian Championship (1): 2010/11
• Lithuanian Cup (1): 2010/11

real Madrid

• Spanish Championship (1): 2012/13
• Spanish Cup (1): 2011/12
• Spanish Supercup (1): 2012

National team

• Basketball World Cup 2010 : Bronze

Trivia

At the age of 13, Martynas Pocius suffered a partial amputation of three fingers on his left hand in an accident with a milling machine . Two of them could be reconstructed in a complicated operation, but he lost the middle finger permanently.

Web links

Commons : Martynas Pocius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile on euroleague.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Announcement. (No longer available online.) In: realmadrid.com. July 28, 2011, archived from the original on August 15, 2011 ; Retrieved July 28, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ M.Pocius "Žalgiris you buvo didelis tramp linas tobulėti". (No longer available online.) In: zalgiris.lt. July 26, 2011, archived from the original on August 10, 2011 ; Retrieved July 26, 2011 (Lithuanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Pocius to play for Real Madrid. (No longer available online.) In: realmadrid.com. July 28, 2011, archived from the original on August 15, 2011 ; Retrieved July 28, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.