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There\u2019s no question which team has the best, incredible, spectacular and most outrageous fans here at the Eurobasket in Prague and that\u2019s Finland. The Scandinavian nation has descended upon the O2 Arena in mass numbers as over 6,000 supporters wearing blue-and-white have made it seem that they are the host country as they have made their mark with their special \u201cWolf Howl\u201d cheer.<\/p>\n

The person behind the bench for the Finns is Lassi Tuovi who is a rising star among coaches as the 35-year old has been the tactician for French League team SIG Strasbourg since 2020 while having also taken over the reins of the Susijengi, or \u201cWolf Pack\u201d this past summer.
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Lassi Tuovi – Photo Credit: FIBA<\/p><\/div>
\nJust ahead of Finland\u2019s huge game against Serbia, The Sports Rabbi had the honor and privilege to sit with Tuovi at the team\u2019s hotel in central Prague to discuss his life in basketball, philosophy, his dreams and of course how he got started in the business. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an interesting question since I wasn\u2019t a very good player. I had the opportunity to become a practice player in my own hometown Lappeenranta which back in 2005 won the championship for the first time ever. I wasn\u2019t playing that season as I was injured so I helped the head coach watching film and working with the players, rebounding the basketball and I was an all around guy for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he continued to stay involved, Tuovi was offered a job with the club to work as a coach and that was something he grabbed at the forts opportunity, \u201cAt some point I really started to enjoy it and I got better but the team offered me a contract as an employee at 18 years old and without hesitation I took it. I\u2019ve been working on the tactical side of basketball since then and have been lucky having worked with so many head coaches. I fell in love with the tactics side, but most of all I like teaching and that is the best.\u201d
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Lassi Tuovi – Photo Credit: FIBA<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Lappeenranta native kept honing his trade as he worked under some very influential and top level coaches during his time as an assistant for 12 years with the national team along with Besiktas, Gravelines and Strasbourg.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to thank my old club because the people there pushed me and helped get me a professional contract. Afterwards being a head coach at the age of 24 in the top league in Finland which is not very common, but I had the opportunity. Then it was joining the national team with coach Henrik Dettmann has been the biggest impact of my career and I was able to make a short cut to top level basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an opportunity to learn what it is to be high level standards, how players work and then last but not least with coach Collet. The time we shared everyday in the office talking about basketball and life but also talking about X\u2019s and O\u2019s as he shared everything at a time I enjoyed a lot. I\u2019ve been lucky to be around these top coaches.\u201d
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Lassi Tuovi – Photo Credit: FIBA<\/p><\/div>
\nTuovi is also unique in the fact that he not only watches and learns from basketball coaches but watches other coaches in various different disciplines which gives him a chance to expand his horizons, \u201cOne of the things a I like to do a lot is to learn from coaches other than those in basketball. Other bosses and their leadership. We should not be in a bubble and only look at our own sport because there are a lot of sports. My father is a theatre director and that\u2019s where my background is since I was 16 years old. So recruiting the right players and puts them in the right role comes from the theatre side.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAll these things help you understand that at the end, basketball is one part and you need to build a team and you need to build confidence because without that X\u2019s and O\u2019s doesn\u2019t matter. More than other basketball coaches I try to look outside of the box, not inside the room but outside of the window.\u201d <\/p>\n

Finland is fortunate to have one of the top players in the NBA in one Lauri Markkanen who was just recently traded to the Utah Jazz from the Cleveland Cavaliers. Markkanen is a fabulous players on the court but is also a very special person off of it Tuovi explained, \u201cFirst of all Lauri as a human being is first, he doesn\u2019t need any special things for the practices and wants to be one of the guys before he gets the basketball in his hands. I think he will be an even better player in a few years when we have the Eurobasket in our home country in 2025.\u201d
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Lassi Tuovi – Photo Credit: FIBA<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cOur goal is not just this team, because for years, coach Dettmann before me and the captains my current assistants Mikko Larkas Hanno Mottola on the bench still have hierarchy and the values for the team. So for any players that comes in like a young Koponen or Salin it\u2019s automatically a thing that you win to honor and it doesn\u2019t matter if you are one or the other, you are all the same. The Finnish mentality is that you need to do things all together and believe in each other and work harder, otherwise it doesn\u2019t give you good results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of the fine development that Finland has been working in is the program that has been put together at the youth levels but it\u2019s also about seeing where the coaches can work to improve the players who are at their disposal. <\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all they had a good education and the kids have been able to work coaches and have developed. Last summer they were part of the Challenger program for Under-18 which I was helping to run. We also had programs at the Universade last summer in Japan and we have been educating them so they would be ready for the national team.\u201d
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Finland – Photo Credit: FIBA<\/p><\/div>
\nTuovi continued to expand in his thoughts, \u201cOn the other hand, the spectre for a small country is that we should not think of what we don\u2019t have and what we can not do. If you always think that we are always too small or not strong enough and we don\u2019t have this and don\u2019t have that then we won\u2019t get any results. We should think that maybe he\u2019s not the tallest or strongest but we can do this and look at the strengths as to what we do have. We know that the young players have a lot of room to improve and they can use their own strengths. This tournament is also becoming a trust between the coaching staff and players. As I trust them to do what they can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the future generation, Tuovi feels that it\u2019s a positive for the Finnish youth to be able to look up and admire while striving to be like some of the players who set a fine example but it\u2019s not only for those playing but coaches as well.
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Lauri Markkanen – Photo Credit: FIBA<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI think that it\u2019s important for young kids to have idols if it\u2019s Markkanen or Koponen for example. The future is bright and while we are talking about the players I should mention that I am very proud about the system that we have built, the coaches in Finland. We have a good program with many high level potential coaches and we have some right now after having a coach being named coach of the year on the German Bundesliga in Tuomas Iisalo, so we are already there. But I feel that we will have better players and also have a bright future because we will also have better coaches that will also help develop in Europe over the next few years which will also develop our system, so I\u2019m very excited for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

At such a young age, Tuovi is at a point in his career that if he would want to take a further leap he could definitely do just that and continue to climb up the ladder of success. However, roght now he\u2019s in a good place and he\u2019s content keep working hard and see where the future may lead him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that sitting here as a head coach of the Finnish national team at the age of 35 at the same time for the third season running a big former Euroleague organization you should dream, work hard and dream big while on the other hand you never know what happens tomorrow so the best thing is to enjoy this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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