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In the last match before the general quarantine in Lithuania, 239 fans gathered on Nemunas Island. Although “Žalgiris” came very close to stopping Real Spanish club, the fans could not give the fans victory. Real Madrid won the points race at Kaunas 93:90.
This was the “Žalgiris” second failure this season in seven Euroleague games. As in the first Spanish exam, when Valencia, incredibly settled in Kaunas after a long hiatus, triumphed 94:82, the quality of the white greens on their side of the field does not correspond to what they are happy to demonstrate in attack. .
The loss is painful but reveals the intriguing potential of this season’s “Žalgiris”. Attack numbers: elite.
Martin Schiller students score an average of 81.6 points each. This is the best result of the tournament, slightly ahead of Friday’s rival “Real” – vid. after 81.3.
Green and White act after 18.7 assists (fourth place) and attack from a distance of 42.6 percent. accuracy.
“The defense is unsettling, but the opponents should be concerned about our attack,” he added. 15 minutes after the defeat, said Marius Grigonis. – Everything is fixable. It was fun that we were in the match, we were able to win, we showed good energy. I think the fans were also interested. We really could have won. “
“It’s fun to play a game like that. The ball moves, everyone scores points. With such a team, we fell side by side, creating opportunities. There was no doubt that we would create them. But we left the defense somewhere, “Artūras Milaknis told Žalgiris TV.
This defeat paved the way for first place in the tournament for basketball players from Šarūnas Jasikevičius and Barcelona, and pushed Žalgiris to second place.
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The alarms on Nemunas Island began to sound from the first minutes. Without three players, Fabiano Causeur, Ruy Fernández and Gabriel Decko, Real looked perfectly tactically prepared, while Facundo Campazzo and Walter Tavares’ two-on-two easily shook off the brilliant defenses prepared by M. Schiller.
In the first quarter, the Real hit all the colonies launched and scored 32 points. The people of Žalgiris have never spent so much on their basket in 10 minutes.
Although Tavares scored 4 points in the first quarter, the influence of the Cape Verdean giant in the attack of the guests was very great – good movement towards the basket playing “two against two”, good launch of the ball, stretching the entire defense mechanism of “Žalgiris” finally – fighting after rivals canasta and repeated shots.
W. Taresare became the factor that shone the most in the second half of the game.
In the second half, “Žalgiris” started to defend more aggressively, but even almost seven empty minutes for “Real” and 54 points won by the hosts after two halves allowed them to have an advantage of only 6 points.
Of particular interest is Thomas Walkup, who valiantly attacked the basket and solidly organized the game. He scored 20 utility points in the first half of the game, similar to 21 in the first five games.
Although in the second half of the match the “Žalgiris” player was silenced, he ended the match with a career career high: 29 utility points.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Nigelas Hayes’as
Steve’as Vasturia took over the ball in the 24th minute and scored a double point, raising the Kaunas team’s lead to a double signal – 64:53. In the next attack, Nigel Hayes was able to hit an early 3-pointer, faltered, fumbled, and the positive wave from the hosts was dampened by Real veteran Jaycee Carroll’s colon.
“A 10-point advantage in modern basketball is ridiculous if you relax a little bit and the advantage dissolves,” Milas said. – Lack of cold blood. We did not hesitate, we ran, one lost the ball, the other lost the ball. The rivals took advantage of the situations, the ball began to move better and we couldn’t. Not yet baudelių, which we had perfected last year. There is a lot to fix and we will fix it. This defeat must be taken as a lesson. Today we have seen that we have the potential, but we have to work and improve our defense. “
It was a memorable evening for the 34-year-old sniper “Žalgiris”, who climbed to 10th in the all-time 3-pointer in the Euroleague (379 3-pointers) after taking three long shots and shows the best shooting percentage (42.6 %) from this list.
Jaka Lakovičius, who is in ninth place, has scored 381 triples during his career, and yesterday’s opponent J.Carroll is in eighth position: 396 precise triples.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Augustine Rubitas
The last quarter and we return to the injury of the pair of F. Campazz and W. Tavares to “Žalgiris”. Together, these guys scored up to 61 utility points.
F.Campazzo scored 19 points in 33 minutes (1/1 double, 5/8 trit., 2/2 penalty), bounced and took 3 balls, made 10 assists, made 5 errors and registered 27 efficiency points.
At that time, W.Taresare, who dominated the Žalgiris stadium, scored 22 points (9/9 doubles, 4/5 penalties) in 21 minutes, bounced 12 balls, 6 of which were under the basket of Žalgiris, as many as all the Žalgiris together. and obtained 34 utility points. This last indicator is the highest in W. Tavares’ career.
The guests who started the last quarter in section 8: 2 tied the match, and Agustín Rubitas, who sat on the bench in the 32nd minute of the match, did not go back up.
This is a fun time. Although Joffrey Lauvergne seemed to be having a difficult time dealing with the Real Tower in both the first and fourth quarters, as statistics show, Schiller praised the student’s work on his side of the field.
Perhaps A.Rubitas would not have stopped the defense of W.Tavareso, but he could take a penalty shot from the area in his attack with his excellent shooting average, which he demonstrated in the first part of the game, when he already accumulated 10 points in the second part.
“We had to push him out of the penalty area,” Rubitas said after the game. – He bounced many balls in the attack, beat the ball, repeated shots, put it in the basket. We cannot allow anyone to accumulate such easy points. That’s what happened, we accumulated points, but we also allowed them to shoot a lot. “
Last week, a similarly sized center, Moustapha Fallas, caused a lot of trouble for the residents of Žalgiris in Vilerbane. Is this a coincidence?
“Obviously, they are connected by height,” explained A. Rubitas. – These are huge guys. But we have to fight. We know who we are. When we meet them again, we must be prepared. One person will not stop those rivals, we have to defend the team. One person fences and the others have to clean up. But we didn’t. We have to play better, there is no doubt ”.
The most expensive center in the Euroleague, W. Tavares, is famous for his elite defense, but after a long break in Kaunas he scored as many as 18 points. He scored 8 points in the deciding 10: 0 Real at the end of the match.
Although he was the most remarkable figure in the arena due to his size, he descended towards the basket “Žalgiris” with great skill. And if it was not possible to play “two against two”, the balls are collected from the heads of the army of M. Schiller and dominate near the basket.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Marius Grigonis
“Our style, Real, plays anyway,” Grigonis said after the failure. – We are not worse, we could hold on to this match. We seemed to be in control of them, but we launched in the fourth quarter. We were able to close the last attacks, and I myself did not close those games. 93 points is a defensive error. “
Although the defense of “Žalgiris” is such that it is not advisable to participate in the points race with the elite Euroleague teams – 94 and 93 points lost to “Valencia” and “Real” are among the five worst results of this season throughout the tournament.
But Žalgiris’s attack is such that other rivals look at him with slight fear.
Friday’s game continues to highlight the problem on their side of the field, but the slight jump in attack to the basket cannot fail to impress fans. From the game with Real you can get both the positive and the need to learn a defensive lesson.
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