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Marius Grigonis warmly allowed goal after goal at CSKA’s basketball hoop in Moscow, but Žalgiris’s side was unable to break through their team’s failed section.
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Grigonis managed to score 19 points and hit 5 points out of three of 6 and all 4 free throws in 23 minutes.
However, at the end of the match, Mike James and Will Clyburn began to score fantastic 3-pointers, after which CSKA defeated Žalgiris in Kaunas 87:78.
“It’s a difficult match,” Grigonis began his comment at the press conference. – In some weird way, we keep talking, why can’t we all talk from the beginning, help each other? It only lights up around the third half. Everyone is likely to have their own affairs and not help each other. When we play together, and that’s what we have to do because we are a smaller team, we look pretty good. And then, what shots did they throw, so they get those millions … “
– Mariau, how should James and Clyburn be stopped to avoid those space shots?
– If we had not been 15 points behind, if we had escaped 15 points, it would have been enough. That they can be such, anything can be. CSKA hadn’t made many such shots before, and there were losses. And when you take five shots to your face here, it bounces … I don’t know what we can do even more. Sure, you can always add, but there is how it is.
– Does the team lack courage at the beginning of the game?
– It is impossible to justify yourself with the attitude of how you may not be prepared for a Euroleague match when you play CSKA and want to take away the contract from each of them. When we talk about five, it looks completely different. It doesn’t even matter what we yell there, it seems like you’re aggressively defending yourself and putting your opponent in a panic. We don’t do that from the beginning. There are workouts and you need to start with them.
– Has this game in defense been a step forward in the last four-game series?
– It was definitely more positive than after the game with Maccabi or Real. In the moments, we really defended ourselves very well. For everyone who doesn’t fit into that defense, it worked out well. We all talk and help each other, one collapses, the other breaks. It really works, many positives. But the result is unsatisfactory. A difficult month. We need to take what’s left this month.
– There are no spectators in the arena and you heard well how you reacted after receiving the fourth foul. How difficult was it then to watch the events from the bench?
– I’m stupid myself for going where I didn’t have to. When the team needs him, he sits on a bench, but without me, the team managed well too. We have 12 players and one foolishly punishes or has an injury, the other has to go and make up for the loss of that player.
– Today you hit almost everything, didn’t you want to have the ball in your hands at the end of the game?
– I always want to do that last major release, but that’s how we came up with the line. It didn’t work this time.
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