THE SIDELINES : Wife of Warriors’ Marciulionis Could Give Him Shooting Lessons

OAKLAND — After a rough shooting night this season, the Golden State Warriors’ Sarunas Marciulionis might very well get some good advice at home.

His wife, Inga, will be playing junior college basketball this year, and her coach calls her “the best pure shooter I’ve ever coached, male or female.”

The 5-foot-11 guard on the Merritt College women’s team made seven consecutive three-point shots in the opening preseason scrimmage, Coach Fred Brown said.

Inga Marciulionis, 25, played on Soviet national women’s teams during the 1980s. Her husband, who began his NBA career last season, was a star of Soviet national men’s teams. The Lithuanian couple have a daughter, Krista.

“Basketball here is easy for me. I play at a very high level before,” Inga Marciulionis said. “But I don’t play for about two years now, so . . . we’ll see.”