There are few certainties in this world, save for death, taxes and LaVar Ball tearing into his sons’ coach, especially after a loss. Prienu Vytautas’ 82-79 Lithuanian (LKL) League defeat to Alytaus Dzukija on Monday afforded the Big Baller Brand CEO another opportunity to put head coach Virginijus Seskus’ head on a platter, this time by way of explaining his rationale for the family’s controversial vacation to Barcelona.

“From Seskus’ training sessions, my boys got worse,” the Ballfather told BasketNews.lt’s Jonas Miklovas, according to a translation. “That’s why we went to Spain to recharge my boys. Seskus does not pay attention to physical preparation, they don’t run and in general lack a serious attitude towards practice. It’s hard to win, because the coach does not get players ready.”

LaVar griped about the lackadaisical nature of Seskus’ two-a-day practices as “pretend working” and revealed that he and his brother, LaValle, regularly put Gelo and Melo through their own paces after each practice.

“We got here only because of hard work up to this point,” he said, “so it does not matter what Seskus does. We will work using our methods. We will participate in his practices, but we will train individually as well. Every day.”

For the Father of Balls, Seskus’ practices—which apparently feature little more than light scrimmaging, the occasional full-court run and players arguing over who should defend whom—are Exhibit A behind Vytautas’ paltry 5-21 record in the LKL.

“I understand why they losing,” LaVar went on. “With this coach’s mindset, we will win nothing. He says we need to preserve players’ legs. No, you have to prepare those legs, train them up. It’s just the wrong attitude.”

The way LaVar sees it, Seskus’ in-game demeanor isn’t any better. He pointed to the coach’s poor body language as the reason that “It seems no one wants to play.”

“He is acting like a fool,” the Big Baller continued. “After a miss, he is throwing his arms in the air. Would you really want to play under a coach like that? It creates bad atmosphere.

“Everything starts from the top. If you don’t have sufficient leadership up top, players will not give their all.”

LaVar insisted that he’s not mad about his boys’ situation and that they will remain at Vytautas through the season. He did, however, take issue with Seskus’ displeasure over the family’s pre-planned trip to Spain and characterization of the excursion as some unfair bit of relaxation.

“It’s easy for Seskus to moan that the boys went on vacation,” he said. “We don’t go on vacations. We ball.”

LaVar added that he believed Gelo, who scored 14 points in Monday’s loss, “came back in better shape” than the rest of the team, despite missing a slew of practices while elsewhere in Europe.

“What were they doing all this time? Nothing,” he went on. “That’s why my boys had to leave to recharge. Let Vytautas do what they want, but we need to work more. We have to take care of physical preparation ourselves, extra shooting sessions, driving to the basket. We have to do it ourselves.

“We can look at the preparation for the game—it does not exist. It’s a waste of time. I feel sorry for the guys who don’t improve here.”

LaVar was particularly perturbed to see Gelo not attacking the basket like he did back at Chino Hills High School. That, among other things, spurred the Ballfather to take a more hands-on approach to his sons’ development in Lithuania.

“I used to not pay attention to this earlier and used to tell my kids to do what the coach says,” he said. “Now I look closer and see the same things happening again and again. So we decided to work extra time.”

That wasn’t all for which LaVar blamed Seskus. He also laid Vytautas players’ general unwillingness to play his uptempo style at the coach’s feet.

“If Seskus worked like this all the time, that’s the reason why they won only four or five games,” he explained. “It’s clear to me now why players don’t want to play fast. I did not see anyone running back and forth through full court hard.

“I don’t have anything against the players—they are good guys—but approach has to be different if you want to be a winner.”

This isn’t LaVar’s first diatribe of this kind in Lithuania. And if Seskus remains the coach at Vytautas much longer, it probably won’t be the last.

Barring a drastic change of heart on Seskus’ part, then, it may only be a matter of time until he’s forced out one way or another, with LaVar’s investments in the club—both monetarily and in terms of the two years Melo has left to play before he’s eligible for the NBA draft—as the cudgels used to get his way in Prienai.