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The second consecutive victory in the Betsafe-LKL championship was achieved by the Utena Juventus team (2/1), which at home 83:76 (20:10, 20:20, 20:27, 23:19) resisted the Nevėžis-Optibet of Kėdainiai (2/2).
The Utensians imposed their rules from the start of the game. Already in the second half, the difference exceeded the limit of 10 points (21:10), and the Nevėžis-Optibet attack stalled strongly. Although the second quarter was more productive for Kėdainiai: he scored as many points as his opponents, it did not allow to reduce the difference, while the long throws were like a spell: only 1 in 12 scored the goal.
After a long break, Panagiotis Kalaitzakis and Vaidas Kariniauskas helped organize the streak and cut the difference in half (35:40), still 40 seconds was enough and Mindaugas Kupšas again increased the difference to ten – 47:37. V.Kariniauskas scored 12 points during the quarter, while Martynas Gecevičius showed his precision from afar, so the intrigue grew – 56:55.
Even so, Juventus began to suppress it, maintained a successful stage and recovered the double-digit difference (70:60) that became decisive. Nevėžis-Optibet is no longer challenged.
However, Žydrūnas Urbonas still showed emotions in the last minute of the match and received a technical foul.
The most prominent in the Juventus team was M. Gecevičius, who scored 20 points (4/8 trit.), Made 8 passes and accumulated 25 utility points. It’s a seasonal game for him.
Ignas Vaitkus was even more useful: 16 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 27 utility points. For the forward, it is also the most effective match of the season.
13 points and 7 rebounds – on J.Jucikas’s account, Mindaugas Kupšas scored 11 points.
Vytautas Šulskis’ performance was the worst: 2 out of two points out of 5, 0 out of three points out of 4 and -7 points of utility. Bryant Crawford also struggled: 1 out of 5 triples, 0 out of 2 triples, and -2 utility points.
V.Kariniauskas scored 15 points for the Kėdainiai club, 15 – P.Kalaitzakis, 14 – Vaidas Čepukaitis, 12 – J.Kazakauskas.
The accuracy of long-distance shots remained a problem for Nevėžis-Optibet until the end: only 3 of 22 were hit.
Ž.Urbonas had complaints to his team after the game.
“It seemed like we had control of the whole game, but we stopped when we had more than 10 points. I don’t mean to say that I felt relaxed, because none of the Kėdainiai are weaker than us. We simply had the freedom to make decisions. I don’t think that with an advantage of 10 to 12 points, the situation is that he can give a cross.
We are running the third game with 20 errors, although it seems that we have experienced players, the frankness of the situations comes out here, it is the most annoying. Broken heads will need to be treated, as with the coronavirus. There is medicine, screams, “said the Juventus strategist.
Meanwhile, Nevėžio-Optibet coach Marius Kiltinavičius was happy with only one thing: supporting the fans who came to Utena.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Where we wanted to attack, we couldn’t fill in the details, we wanted to attack them two-on-two, but we didn’t get into the barrier, we didn’t build it, we didn’t wait. It didn’t give us an advantage where we felt we could have it. There was the feeling that Juventus was a little stronger, maybe a little unsuccessful, “said the strategist.
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