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The people of Vilnius managed to retaliate for the painful failure in the first round of the Lithuanian Basketball League, when Nevėžis-Optibet, who then had Vaidas Kariniauskas and Vaidas Čepukaitis in their ranks, scored the vice-champion of the LKL at home 100 : 94.
This was the Morning’s second consecutive victory. In the tournament table, the fight for second place remains very close: both Panevėžys Lietkabelis and Utena Juventus have continued to suffer fewer defeats than Vilnius.
For Nevėžis-Optibet, this was the sixth consecutive failure in the LKL championship and the eighth, including the KMT Cup.
At the start of the match, Rytas, who set the pace of his game on Kėdainiai, forced opponents to make mistakes often: after racking up easy points in the fast attack, they immediately lost their double-digit lead (14: 3).
The capital’s team’s game began to stagnate when temporary strategist Giedrius Žibėnas began rotating the basketball players – the guests eliminated the entire deficit in a few minutes and tied the score.
In the second half, neither team’s advantage was revealed, although in the middle of the quarter “Nevėžis” was even ahead (32:27), so the question of the match winner was decided in the second half of the match.
After the break, the residents of Kėdainiai began to dominate the square, and Rytas continued to remember his own shadow. Undeterred, Maurice Ndour performed unsportsmanlike action by killing Julius Kazakauskas and earned an unsportsmanlike foul, Arnas Butkevičius in an involuntary situation simply knocked down Ryan Boatright, who had the ball in his hands, Martynas Echodas also scored a foul, and the triples: 45).
Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min / Vilnius “Morning” – Kėdainiai “Nevėžis-Optibet”
R. Boatright finally took the reins into his own hands, landing three long throws in a row, but even that didn’t save the people of Vilnius; Across the field, Imru Duke, a newcomer who supplemented Nevėžis just two days ago, was furious. Nevėžis led 71:65 after three halves.
In the last quarter, the representatives of Kėdainiai advanced again (76:68), but finally Andrew Goudelock began to accumulate points, adding up to 12 points in a row from the hosts.
In the last minutes of the match, the leading team was constantly changing, but “Rytas” managed to wear a healthy coat – behind the slightest difference, M. Echod (91:88) added two important colonies, finally managed to defend themselves and A. Goudelock sent a deadly stab to the opponent’s basket (94: 88).
By the way, the latter scored his 15 points during the deciding quarter.
Before this match, Nevėžis-Optibet were the worst three-point team in the entire league, but Vilnius had up to 15 long-range bombs from 33 attempts (45%).
Vilnius “Tomorrow”: Maurice Ndour 20 (April 25), Andrew Goudelock 15, Ryan Boatright 12, Arnas Butkevičius and Martynas Echodas 11 each.
Kėdainiai “Nevėžis-Optibet”: Sedrick Barefield 29, Panagiotis Kalaitzakis 15, Domantas Vilys 14 (3/3 trit.), Martynas Pocevičius and Imru Duke (3/3 trit.) 9 each.
VIDEO: Match summary Betsafe-LKL: Tomorrow – Nevezis-Optibet [2021-01-09]
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