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Photo: BasketNews.lt/D. Shell
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Paulius Murauskas, who played Sunday night in the Lithuanian Basketball League (Betsafe – LKL) match with the Kaunas team “Žalgiris”, became the Kaunas club’s third-youngest debutant.
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The 204 cm tall striker entered the field at 16 years and 323 days. He became the third basketball player since the creation of LKL, who made his debut in Žalgiris at the age of 16.
As a result of 104: 74 in the duel won against Klaipėda “Neptūnas”, Murauskas got off the bench at the end of the second half, and spent a total of 5 minutes on the field, during which he won no points (0/1 double ), bounced and once again made a mistake, got a block. .
“It was fun to debut but I’m not serious about it,” Murauskas told the BasketNews.lt website. – It turned out that Steve Vasturia was injured and I had the opportunity to debut. I know that I am not yet ready to play in Žalgiris, everything is normal, the NKL has a lot to show me. I made my debut, I got an incentive and that’s it. “
The youngest basketball player in the history of the Žalgiris team who played in the LKL is Vytenis Čižauskas. He did so in 2009 at 16 years and 171 days of age.
Kęstutis Marčiulionis, who appeared on the square for the first time in 1993 wearing a Žalgiris jersey at 16 years and 183 days, was not far behind.
Kaunas’ 10 youngest debutants “Žalgiris” in LKL:
| Player | Debut age | Season | Matches |
| Vytenis Čižauskas | 16 m. and 171 d. | 2008-2009 m. | 77:51 |
| Kęstutis Marčiulionis | 16 m. and 183 d. | 1993-1994 m. | 94:63 |
| Paulius Murauskas | 16 m. and 323 d. | 2020-2021 m. | 104: 74 |
| Vilmantas Dilys | 17 m. and 2 d. | 2004-2005 m. | 113: 81 |
| Modest Vaitiekus | 17 m. and 67 d. | 1994-1995 m. | 120: 85 |
| Martynas Arlauskas | 17 m. and 72 d. | 2017-2018 m. | 89:70 |
| Rokas Jokubaitis | 17 m. and 167 d. | 2017-2018 m. | 85:76 |
| Kęstutis Šeštokas | 17 m. and 183 d. | 1993-1994 m. | 94:63 |
| Marius basinskas | 17 m. and 207 d. | 1998-1999 m. | 97:66 |
| Lucio mindaugas | 18 m. and 41 d. | 1994-1995 m. | 76:60 |
The youngest LKL basketball player of all time is Edvinas Šeškus, who entered the field at the age of 14, 8 months and 11 days.
Murauskas, who is in Žalgiris, still has a chance to become the youngest basketball player in the club, making his Euroleague debut. Currently, Žalgiris’ youngest debutant in the Euroleague is Vilmantas Dilys, who did so at 17 years and 43 days.
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To improve this, Murauskas should appear in the Euroleague match before March 28 this year. Until then, Žalgiris will play 14 games in the Euroleague.
Murauskas learned that he and his team will go to Klaipeda on Sunday from Žalgiris head coach Martin Schiller during Saturday’s training.
“Get ready,” the Austrian told Murauskas.
When the sixteen-year-old arrived at the “Žalgiris” stadium on Sunday, the team learned that he would not go to the game until he received a negative response to the COVID-19 virus test from Karolis Lukošiūnas.
The people from Žalgiris waited in the arena for three hours, during which Murauskas along with other young Žalgiris basketball players Rokas Jokubaitis and Marek Blaževičius cheered their time by playing a negative game.
Finally, “Žalgiris” went to Klaipeda, and Murauskas entered the square at the end of the second half. Before appearing on the floor, the forward received words of encouragement from players more than twice his age, Paulius Jankūnas and Artūras Milaknis.
“When I found out that it would be necessary to make my debut, I had no worries,” Murauskas said. – Before going to the square, Captain Paul said not to disturb, Artūras also encouraged him. Everything was fine, I had to defend myself, the most important thing was do not cut the mushroom, I had to stand on the corner depending on the combination. Artūras Milaknis said on the bench that if I go out in the fourth quarter and have a chance to pitch, I will pitch immediately. But I hurried and got a block from Slavinsk. “
At the end of the match, the people of Žalgiris repeatedly looked for opportunities for the young Murauskas, which sometimes ended in errors.
“Walkup was looking for me a lot, he could have written me some of his mistakes,” Murauskas said with a laugh. “There will be more points.”
One of the most promising young Lithuanian basketball players started this season in the doubles team “Žalgiris” from Kaunas and NKL – VIKINGLOTTO plays an average of 21.5 minutes. and adds 10.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists. NKL is competing in the second season.
“I feel really better than last season. Sometimes I play very wavy, I can play one game very well and the other bad. I always play in third position, but I can move to fourth if necessary. Still, I feel more comfortable in the position of a light edge striker, so I can play back against the lower opponents and face the basket against the higher ones.
We have very good friends in the team: Justina Ramanauskas, Vitalijus Kozis, Mantas Rubštavičius and others. We all interact, the elderly help us a lot and we can improve ”, concluded Murauskas.
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