LaVar: Vytautas coach threw away friendship by not starting LaMelo, LiAngelo

LaVar Ball appears to be deeply offended by Vytautas Prienai-Birstonas head coach Virginijus Seskus' decision to not start both LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball against top-tier club Zalgiris Kaunas in Lithuanian League action Sunday.

Vytautas was blown out 118-96 by Zalgiris. LiAngelo led all scorers with 25 points on 8-of-15 shooting, while LaMelo chipped in 19 points and six assists.

While their numbers weren't hindered by coming off the bench, LaVar feels the team would've been better off if his boys started, and, since they didn't, his friendship with Seskus appears to be kaput.

Here are Ball's comments after the game, according to Lithuanian journalist Donatas Urbonas:

We could win this game easily, but the coach doesn't have confidence to let my boys do what they do. I told him the recipe how to win. If you don't want to take that, it tells me you don't want to win.

I'm a guy about loyalty. If my sons come to practice every day ... We're friendly, we have a nice friendship, they work hard. But you put guys who didn't practice for the game before my boys? I don't care about the game no more. I'm thinking about the loyalty right now. He showed me how much our friendship is worth.

That's like if somebody is coming from another team, Croatia or anywhere, and I'm saying, 'We want your boys, we have more money, we are a better team.' And I'm like, 'OK, Lithuania. I'm out!' I ain't do that!

But a guy he just brought the next day, another guy who didn't practice the whole week, he starts them over my boys. I thought we were better than that. If you throw away our friendship like that, it shows it was worth nothing. So I'm good with that. I'm cool with that.

I'm really mad at a coach. I thought our friendship was better than that. I'll say hi to him, but I'm not going to be his buddy anymore because he threw my friendship through the window. I'm not talking to him. I ain't ready for any explanations no more.

I don't be having fun watching the game no more. I'm like whatever.