Estonian international basketball team coach Tiit Sokk has not yet given an answer whether he is going to stay as the head coach for the next season.
Estonia ended their EuroBasket 2007 qualifiers with a 78-77 win over Croatia.
Overall the team managed two wins and four losses in the tournament.
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| Valmo Kriisa led Estonia to a 78-77 win over Croatia this past Saturday. | ||||
However, BA president Peep Aaviksoo did not want to give any straight answers about Sokk's future either. He said the BA would first listen to Sokk's analysis about the past summer.
He added that as next international fixtures are not due before next summer anyway, there would be no rush in making that decision.
Aaviksoo said: "This kind of things can't be decided emotionally. We will discuss everything thoroughly."
Aaviksoo added that he wasn't too happy about the team's performance during the past season but said he didn't want to give any judgements about the coach's work.
"Every coach has their own vision and concept," Aaviksoo said.
"BA has given him the freedom to do his work right now, so there is no point to meddle in here.
"I am not the person to say that something has gone wrong. We have to look deeper, and I think the players who the coach has been working with are not yet ready.
"Their spirit, their confidence and ambitions aren't fully formed. We have a lack of personalities in our team and this is not the head coach's fault."
Next summer will be very important for the international team as 10 countries will be fighting for the last qualifying spot to EuroBasket 2007 and to avoid relegation to the B-division.
Sokk said: "If we are alive after the next two years, I think we'll be alive for a long time. But we have to take a lot of risks and make sacrifices. In the end it will be the coach who is made responsible. Unfortunately losses are part of development."
According to Sokk, some of the team preparations did not work out right.
He took blame for the bad start in the game against Latvia in Riga.
However, he admitted he was disappointed that not all the players participated as eagerly in the preparation process as he would have wished.
"When we were doing some running in our Finnish training camp, only three men from the present list of players were running with us. That was weird - those who would play weren't there. Everyone had some kind of a problem, keeping them away."
Also assistant coach Üllar Kerde said that the players seem to lack belief in the training process.
Kerde said: "The coach cares about winning, but also about being sure that your work bears fruit.
"The players should come along and work with you. As a head coach I had the good fortune of older players coming and helping out. If that doesn't happen, it affects you twice as hard as losing the game."
