Marta Seweryn: What are your feelings
after being for the first time as an
instructor at the camp for
referees?
Tomas Jasevicius: It was great
experience for me and I really like it!
If at least one
referee noted my advices which can help
him to improve- so it was worth to
come! Anyway... I hope that there were
much more referees, than only one:)
You are young, potential, Euroleague
referee how do you feel between so
famous people like Costas, Lubo and
Romas?
T.J. It’s very interesting to be
near such famous referees during the
camps.
They have big experience and they give
really good things for young
referees. I am trying to do not miss the
things they saying, because it
helps a lot to officiate better!
Do you also learn something
here?
T.J. When you are in such camps
the best point is, that it’s not ''one
way
traffic". Referees learn from
instructors and instructors learn from
referees by sharing experience, which
they get from each game.
What would be your advice for the
campers and all referees that want to
improve their skills?
T.J. My advice would be: try to
take everything best from each
referee/instructor and to adapt it in
your own way to your personality,
which helps you to be the better
referee.
How was your way to achieve
international level and Euroleague level
of officiating?
T.J. My way was not very
different from the others:). I started
at 15 years
old and went step by step to my targets.
Though I became FIBA referee at 24
years old, I still have many targets in
the officiating, so I keep
working.... (unfortunately I can not
tell my targets, till I reach it :)).
How do you combine work and
officiating?
T.J. I work in Lithuanian
basketball federation in capacity of the
director of
youth national basketball teams. There’s
no big problem for me to combine
work and my trips for the games.
However, I stay quite late in my office
after I come back from the games to do
work which I have to do.
Who is your referee idol? Who in your
opinion is the best referee to copy
from?
T.J. My referee idol is Romualdas
Brazauskas. I am very fortunate that he
is
my teacher in the refereeing. I really
took many things from him, and I am
trying to make these things in my own
way. It’s impossible to copy somebody,
because we all are different- and its
really great!
What are your aims, goals as a
referee?
T.J. I traveled almost all across
the world and I met many beautiful
people,
who became my friends. I think it’s the
best goal of being basketball
referee.
Hope to see you more times at the
camp :)
T.J. I hope Kuba will invite me
and we will meet at the camp!:) But I
have no
problem if we meet not only at the camp
:)