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Photo: AP – Scanpix
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Jonas Valančiūnas did not have a game against the former club in the renewal of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season, and the Memphis Grizzlies (33-38) represented by Lithuania suffered another defeat.
Man of the match
Tennessee State Team 99: 108 (25:20, 29:40, 17:28, 28:20) landed the Toronto Raptors (50-19) and in the NBA bubble it was their fifth loss in the last six games.
He spent 27 minutes in JV Square and for the first time in his career at the Grizzlies club he did not win a point (0/1 double, 0/1 trit., 0/2 penalty). True, the Lithuanian bounced 10 balls, made a successful pass, once blocked the opponent’s shot, but made 4 mistakes.
The last time Valančiūnas scored points in the NBA game was on January 21, 2018, when he was still represented by the Raptors.
The NBA champions took the lead in the second half when they won the game 12: 2 and held a double-digit lead of 51:41.
The Canadian club did not stop and had a strong 18-point lead (91:73) after the break and early in the fourth quarter, but the Grizzlies did not intend to raise a white flag.
The Grizzlies, who won the section 19: 4 after two points from Dillon Brooks, reduced the gap to three points (92:95), but the fate of the match was decided by two consecutive three points from Pascal Siakam: 101: 94 .
Siakamas, who was the most productive of the match, scored 26 points (5/7 dvit., 4/9 trit., 4/6 penalty) in 36 minutes and provided 3 assists.
Grizzlies: Dillon Brooks 25 (8/16 dit., 3/10 trit.), Grayson Allen 20, Ja Morant 17 (5/15 dvit., 10 res.), Brandon Clarke 16 (9 atk) …, Jonas Valančiūnas 0 (ch. 10 rev.).
Raptors: Pascal Siakam 26, Norman Powell 16, Kyle Lowry 15 (8th ed., 2/9 trit.), Fred VanWleet 14, Serge Ibaka 12 (12th rev.), Marc Gasolis 10.
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