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Lauri Markkanen Hype & Appreciation Thread
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Otherwise Jazz season 2023-2024 is a bust.
Tanktastic
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Lauri will enter into his military service in Finland on April 17th.
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Often/usually the professional athletes complete their 6 month service in two parts (6 months being the minimum time, and usually the professional athletes never stay longer than 6 months), which could mean for example doing 3-4 months this summer and the remaining 2-3 months next summer. Though according to ESPN Lauri has said he wants no special treatment, but remains to be seen what that means.
Markkanen to fulfill mandatory service in Finland
Utah's Lauri Markkanen told ESPN he is confident he can fulfill his mandatory service in the Finnish military "in a way that it's not going to affect my preparation for next season."
Effectively many professional athletes doing their service in the "Sports-school" aka "special reconnaissance force" treat the army time as an extended training camp. They learn how to use the personal weapons, learn how to stand in attention and march in step, but other than that the time spent in the army is pretty much a tough physical and technical training period spesifically tailored for the athlete in question (with some activities also targeted for all the sports-school recruits), and also a chance to to spend time in an enviroment where basically everybody are highly competetive athletes (many, for example Kimi Räikkönen and Mikko Koivu, have mentioned it was actually the best part of the service, to see how tough other athletes from other sports actually are, and how similar the tought-process for the professional athletes seem to be no matter what sports they are coming from). At maximum the "sports-school" accepts 80 recruits every year, and they are essentially all olympic level or near olympc level athletes.
Often/usually the professional athletes complete their 6 month service in two parts (6 months being the minimum time, and usually the professional athletes never stay longer than 6 months), which could mean for example doing 3-4 months this summer and the remaining 2-3 months next summer. Though according to ESPN Lauri has said he wants no special treatment, but remains to be seen what that means.
Markkanen to fulfill mandatory service in Finland
Utah's Lauri Markkanen told ESPN he is confident he can fulfill his mandatory service in the Finnish military "in a way that it's not going to affect my preparation for next season."www.espn.com
Effectively many professional athletes doing their service in the "Sports-school" aka "special reconnaissance force" treat the army time as an extended training camp. They learn how to use the personal weapons, learn how to stand in attention and march in step, but other than that the time spent in the army is pretty much a tough physical and technical training period spesifically tailored for the athlete in question (with some activities also targeted for all the sports-school recruits), and also a chance to to spend time in an enviroment where basically everybody are highly competetive athletes (many, for example Kimi Räikkönen and Mikko Koivu, have mentioned it was actually the best part of the service, to see how tough other athletes from other sports actually are, and how similar the tought-process for the professional athletes seem to be no matter what sports they are coming from). At maximum the "sports-school" accepts 80 recruits every year, and they are essentially all olympic level or near olympc level athletes.
This seems like good news.
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Great response! Thanks!Often/usually the professional athletes complete their 6 month service in two parts (6 months being the minimum time, and usually the professional athletes never stay longer than 6 months), which could mean for example doing 3-4 months this summer and the remaining 2-3 months next summer. Though according to ESPN Lauri has said he wants no special treatment, but remains to be seen what that means.
Markkanen to fulfill mandatory service in Finland
Utah's Lauri Markkanen told ESPN he is confident he can fulfill his mandatory service in the Finnish military "in a way that it's not going to affect my preparation for next season."
Effectively many professional athletes doing their service in the "Sports-school" aka "special reconnaissance force" treat the army time as an extended training camp. They learn how to use the personal weapons, learn how to stand in attention and march in step, but other than that the time spent in the army is pretty much a tough physical and technical training period spesifically tailored for the athlete in question (with some activities also targeted for all the sports-school recruits), and also a chance to to spend time in an enviroment where basically everybody are highly competetive athletes (many, for example Kimi Räikkönen and Mikko Koivu, have mentioned it was actually the best part of the service, to see how tough other athletes from other sports actually are, and how similar the tought-process for the professional athletes seem to be no matter what sports they are coming from). At maximum the "sports-school" accepts 80 recruits every year, and they are essentially all olympic level or near olympc level athletes.
Im happy if thats the case. Even if he does the full 6 months he would be back in october. Not ideal but not the end of the world.
The Fiba World Cup starts in August and there is no way Lauri is going to miss that. I bet he does the 2.5 month service.
Thee Jazz Fan
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And if someone invaded Finland while Lauri is serving?
Thee Jazz Fan
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Too bad it’s not a full year thing. Would be nice to do a complete tank job next year and steal a first from OKC
Tanktastic
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Then the US and Russia are at war with each other and you'd better find your nearest nuclear bunker. Tanking will take on a new meaning.
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For real: he'll serve mid-April to mid-August, then join the national team pre World Cup training camp, get credit for time served representing the country there - and be finished for this year after the World Cup is over in early September. He'll be left with a month or so, and can do that easily the next summer.
stormkoopacv03
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Great effort on Lauri's part for doing this. Much respect! Finland just joined Nato, he's probably stoked about that.
Thee Jazz Fan
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Someone else already said Lauri didn’t want any special treatment and was going to serve the full 6