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The second FIBA European Basketball Sports Championship started on Saturday, in which the Lithuanian team is also participating again.
Lithuanians in the first matches of group C 58:50 (11:17, 15:13, 17: 9, 15:11) defeated the Croats. The team was led by a captain Ignas Vaitiekus, scoring 22 points and bouncing 9 balls and Šarūnas Petkevičius, scoring 17 points, hitting up to 5 of 6 triples.
Unfortunately, the second match was much worse for the Lithuanians. Ours got stuck in the British defense and lost even 37:59 (13:16, 4: 6, 11:17, 9:20). Š.Petkevičius scored 11 points, and Arminas Kotas – 10. The Lithuanians hit only 15 shots out of 35 (British – 25 out of 40) and made 13 errors (British – 4).
COMPOSITION OF THE LITHUANIAN EXPORT BASKETBALL SET:
Ignas Vaitiekus, (Professxr-)
Svajūnas Tamašauskas, (Svai2ka)
Arminas Kotas, (Lieutenant Kotass)
Šarūnas Petkevičius, (| -Shroomz- |)
Edvinas Jurevičius, (Iconite)
David Grige, (GrigeOPA)
Arūnas Pauza, (iOnlyGetWhites-)
“One of the first goals will be to leave the group, which will be really difficult to do. We will have strong teams, one of them: Italy, who won the first tournament. We will try to overcome this barrier and then watch, we will try to get into the playoffs and prove our worth there. We watched the matches of the previous tournament, analyzed what mistakes we made and tried to correct them. The lineup of the national team has changed a bit, new players have been added, so lately we have been spending a lot of time improving our game. We play a lot of control matches against other national teams, so we try to improve our skills and learn from the mistakes we made in the past, ”said the captain of the Lithuanian sports team. Ignas vaitiekus.
On Sunday, the Lithuanian team will have a test of the Italian champions of Italy (4pm) and a playoff. They will include the two best teams in the group.
In the first FIBA esports championship, which took place in June, the Lithuanian national team ranked fifth. Italian basketball players won the championship, Spain won silver medals and the bronze went to the Russian team.
Participation in the European Esports Championship has been confirmed by federations from 17 countries.
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