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Lauri Markkanen Hype & Appreciation Thread

Someone else already said Lauri didn’t want any special treatment and was going to serve the full 6
Well, doing it in parts is "standard" treatment for guys in pro sports. Actually doing a five-month stint this year and leaving just one month for next year would be less special treatment than you'd expect for someone of Lauri's stature. And next year he can join the June intake for that remaining time.
 
Well, doing it in parts is "standard" treatment for guys in pro sports. Actually doing a five-month stint this year and leaving just one month for next year would be less special treatment than you'd expect for someone of Lauri's stature. And next year he can join the June intake for that remaining time.
Sounds like you’re talking out your ***
 
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.
Not me. I am standing under the missile with a catcher's mitt.
 
No, that would be actually quite in line with Finnish Army policy. If you are doing a great service to the country of Finland (like for example taking part in the World Championships of a sport or Olympic games) the Army will *command* you to take part, and it will be counted for the service time.
But someone said he wants to do the full 6 months
 
But someone said he wants to do the full 6 months
Maybe try to read next time instead of just being the idiot you are. He will do the full 165 days, because there isn't an option to choose how much you want to do. Just that he will do 5mths this summer (incl. the World Cup "secondment") and then he'll have a few weeks left which Lauri can complete the next summer. As the final weeks of the service is usually just one big joint training exercise between all the forces, that's what he might take part in to get all the days in.
 
But someone said he wants to do the full 6 months
I don't know if you have been in the Army, but sounds like you haven't. As such it may come as a surprise to you doing the service in any Army of the world is not 24/7 going RAAAH in the woods, shooting, diving, digging, cleaning your gun, and whatever it is the movies would lead you to believe.

Most of the time in any Army you are commanded to do something else. You might be commanded to go to school and talk about the Army, you might be ordered to go out and take part in a fundraising, you might be commanded to take part in radio show to talk about life in Army, you might be commanded to go to an agricultural fair to stand at a booth, you might be commanded to take part world-championships. Incidently, I was ordered to do four things of those five examples (you are free to attempt to guess what I wasn't ordered to do) during my time in the army (but as my time was in them ancient times, I spent 11 months in the Army instead of 6). Anyway, all of that time you are commanded to do stuff is most definitively counted for service time.
 
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.


I’ve been through the same win lots of regular season games only to **** the bed in the playoffs routine the last 25 or so years. I’m willing to risk it. I don’t want to live through another 25 years of that, hell I might not make another 25. Lol
 
“So we’ll see how many days I get to knock out this summer and go from there. But I’ve had some friends that have done, like, two months one summer and then finish up the next next summer, so we’ll see. I definitely don’t want it to affect the basketball part, so we’ll figure out a good combination.”

Just as I told your sorry ***.
 
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