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The central match will take place on Sunday in Kaunas, where national champion “Žalgiris” will host Klaipeda “Neptune”.
The meeting will be broadcast live from 5 pm on BTV TV and LKL.lt.
Interestingly, the preliminary schedule did not foresee this: Kaunas residents had to accept Alytus “Dzūkija” in their arena, and the port city club had to travel to the capital and meet the Vilnius “Rytas” there.
However, in both teams, the first cases of coronavirus were detected practically on the eve of the game, so the basketball players and staff members were sent to isolation and their scheduled game was postponed.
“The situation is interesting, but we all have to understand that now is the time when the competitors or the date of the match can change at any time. The advantage is that we had to prepare for Žalgiris one more day, – Martynas Mažeika, a veteran of Neptūnas, commented on the situation.
However, even if the schedule changes, LKL fans and viewers will not suffer.
The people of Žalgiris will come to the weekend game after a very difficult week, they will have played three games in seven days and will face the duel with “Neptune” after a double week in the Euroleague.
“As all the Kaunas games have shown so far, they have a lot of energy and are well prepared physically. I understand that there is still travel and psychological disposition, but we will play and fight for victory, as always ”, M. Mažeika did not exaggerate the energy factor.
Photo by Matas Baranauskas / Martynas Mažeika
Klaipėda’s basketball players should meet the duel with fun humor: after a difficult and coronavirus-triggered break, they finally got back on the road to victory last week, when they defeated Pasvalys’s “Milk Stars” who had shown good shape in his sand 80:74.
“There were a lot of negatives, although we won. As the coach said, we cannot relax and say that we have already discovered the game. I will say it in a banal way, but we are coming out of the well: the current sports form of the team was described by a former member of the team. – We have to be focused, we have a lot of work to do in each training session. Before Pasvalys, things didn’t look as good as they would like. The way we looked in preparation or at the beginning of the season was better than now. “
The Prietai CBet club successfully proved that it is possible to take a bite out of the favorites in the last round, throwing a serious challenge to the champions on the journey and losing only after a dramatic fight and extension with the result 100: 103.
Neptūnas defender Tadas Pažėna should play an important role in this match. This, when the main player Žygimantas Janavičius leaves the lineup, he has more and more opportunities to appear and uses them very solidly.
The basketball player accumulates 12.3 points, makes 4.3 assists and is one of the most effective basketball players on the team with 13.1 utility points.
No less responsibility falls on the shoulders of the team captain M.Mažeika. Klaipda’s basketball player is basically experiencing his second youth this season and often takes on the role of leader, and his veteran lessons also help Klaipėda’s youth to improve.
“I never take the opportunity to say something, advise and point young people in the right direction. I try to put up a good fight during training. It’s not that the team improves me as much as they do, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t learn myself, I also work hard and at the same time help young people to improve, I think I contribute to that, ”said M. Mažeika.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Martynas Mazeika
This year, the 35-year-old basketball player accumulates 13.5 points and 11.8 profit points per game, and his leadership will definitely be needed in the game with “Žalgiris.”
It is true that in the general attack “Neptūnas” is not yet brilliant: the team accumulates an average of 78.13 points per game and, according to this indicator, ranks ninth in the league. Žalgiris, for his part, averages 86.63 points per game.
However, Klaipėda residents have an advantage elsewhere on the statistical charts: Tomas Gaidamavičius’s students take an average of 35.5 balls during the match, and according to this indicator, Kaunas residents (34.25) are minimally ahead.
Another match will take place on Sunday in Šiauliai, where the hosts who have returned to training after a forced break will receive basketball players from Kėdainiai “Nevėžis”.
The game will be broadcast live on LKL.lt starting at 5 pm.
The only game on Saturday will kick off the tour, where neighbors from the tournament table will gather in Prienai, the local CBet and Pasvalys “Milk Stars”.
Watch this meeting direct from 5 pm on BTV TV and LKL.lt.
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