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At the end of the match, Rokas Jokubaitis made free throws and Kaunas “Žalgiris” (1/0) started the Euroleague season with a victory.
Martin Schiller alumni in guests 68:67 (23:18, 11:19, 13:21, 21: 9) broke the Olympiacos team (0/1) in Piraeus.
The “Žalgiris” team was 11 points behind after three quarters, but broke the match in the last quarter, which they won with the result 21 – 9.
This was the debut of the Žalgiris coach, M. Schiller, in the Euroleague tournament.
At the end of the match, R. Jokubaitis, who lost the victory, scored 12 points in 15 minutes, bounced three balls and had three assists.
Marius Grigonis was the most productive in the ranks of “Žalgiris” with 15 points, Joffrey Lauvergne scored 13th.
Žalgiris started the game slowly, 2 – 8 behind Aaron Harrison’s eighth point. and at the end of time he was 23 – 18 ahead.
Žalgiris’s attack stalled in the second quarter, scoring just 11 points during the half.
Martin Geben’s scoring gave the visitors a 27-22 lead in the 12th minute, but the team scored just seven points in the remaining eight minutes and was 34-37 in two halves.
R. Jokubaitis was the most productive basketball player “Žalgiris” in the first half of the game with seven points.
In the third quarter, “Žalgiris” team could not break the match, scored 13 points throughout the quarter and had the biggest deficit at that time at the end of the quarter – 47-58.
In the first seven minutes of the fourth quarter, “Žalgiris” spent only six points. Joffrey Lauvergne was able to compare the score, but could not load the basket. On the next attack, the opponents responded with a successful set.
About 90 seconds later, Thomas Walkup cut Žalgiris’ deficit to one point by three points. Later, R. Jokubaitis was able to surpass the result, but his triple was inaccurate.
Olympiacos’ next attack was imprecise and Žalgiris had the ball with 24 seconds left.
Marius Grigonis shot, but R. Jokubaitis recovered the ball with 3.5 seconds left, caused a foul and put Žalgiris ahead with free throws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQAi86gXnWE
Kaunas won despite losing 13 points out of three of 19 and making 15 errors.
In the next round, Žalgiris will host the Chimki team from the Moscow region.
“Olympiacos”: Hassan Martin 12, Vassil Spanoul 9, Aaron Harrison and Sasha Vezenkov 8 each, Shaquielle McKissic 7.
Žalgiris: Marius Grigonis 15, Joffrey Lauvergne 13, Rokas Jokubaitis 12, Thomas Walkupas, Lukas Lekavičius and Artūras Milaknis 6 each.
Euroleague Results:
| “Valencia” | 65 – 63 | ASVEL | |
| “Barcelona” | 76 – 66 | CSKA | |
| “Maccabi” | 80 – 73 | SUNRISE | |
| “Olympiacos” | 67 – 68 | Žalgiris | |
| “Anadolu Efes” | 69 – 73 | “Zenit” |
Euroleague Schedules:
| “Chimki” | 20:00 | Panathinaikos | |
| Fenerbahce | 20:45 | “Red Star” | |
| “Bayern” | 21:30 | “AX Armani” | |
| „Baskonia“ | 22:00 | “Real” | |
| “Zenit” | 20:00 | “Barcelona” | |
| CSKA | 20:00 | “Maccabi” | |
| “Anadolu Efes” | 20:30 | Fenerbahce | |
| “Real” | 22:00 | “Valencia” |
Euroleague standings:
| V | The team | WATCH | L | PR | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | “Barcelona” | one | one | 0 | 10 |
| two | Tel Avivo „Maccabi“ | one | one | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | Sankt Peterburg “Zenit” | one | one | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Valencia Valencia | one | one | 0 | two |
| 5 | Kaunas “Žalgiris” | one | one | 0 | one |
| 6 | Milano „AX Armani Exchange“ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Belgrade “Red Star” | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Miuncheno “Bayern” | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Istanbul Fenerbahce | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Chimki, Moscow Oblast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| eleven | Athens Panathinaikos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Madrido “Real” | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Vitoria-Baskonia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Piraeus Olympiacos | one | 0 | one | -one |
| fifteen | Vilerbano ASVEL | one | 0 | one | -two |
| sixteen | Istanbul Anadolu Efes | one | 0 | one | -4 |
| 17 | Berlin ALBA | one | 0 | one | -7 |
| 18 | Moscow CSKA | one | 0 | one | -10 |
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