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This means that the Lithuanians did not enter the third consecutive European Championship and, at the same time, the second consecutive championship on the planet. Let’s add two more Olympic Games (Rio and Tokyo), in which ours have never participated before, and even the last seven international tournaments would come out, in which the name of Lithuania did not go down or go down.
The last time Lithuanian basketball players participated in the Old Continent Championship was in 2015 and they took a rather high eighth place, when in the quarterfinals they fell to the Belarusians 66:68 only after a dramatic fight.
The duel in Istanbul started with a lost leg 0:10, but then Justė Jocytė, 15, who got up from the bench, calmed the teammates and brought the Lithuanians closer to the rivals with 6:10. In the middle of the second half, the result was generally the same: 24:24. However, the hosts did not allow him to be overweight: mid-game – 29:33.
After the big break, the Turks reactivated their actions on defense and practically invariably walked away – 36:54. In the last quarter, Turkish coach Ceyhun Yildizoglu was penalized for the second technical foul and ejected from the arena. However, this episode did not become a lifesaver for the Lithuanians, and at the end of the match, Gintarė Petronytė was still injured.
The Lithuanian problems were the same again: many errors (17) and inaccurate triples (4/16, 25%).
Kamilė Nacickaitė scored 17 (6/16 game shots), Giedrė Labuckienė – 15 (9 rebounds), G. Petronytė – 9, J. Jocytė – 8 (4/11 colonies, 4 res.), Audronė Zdanevičiūtė – 3, Laura Miškinienė – 2 (8 rep.), Gabrielė Šulskė – 1 point.
Pelin Bilgič scored 12, Olcay Čakir – 11, Gizem Yavuz and Sherife Onar – 10 points each.
How the hell did Labuck have that? 🤔@ltu_basketball 🇱🇹#EuroBasketWomen pic.twitter.com/s5kg8hXahw
– #EuroBasketWomen (@EuroBasketWomen) February 4, 2021
We remind you that the Mantas Šernius students did not even match the Turks in the first mutual encounter 51:74.
This time, the Lithuanian team could not be helped by Gabija Meškonytė and Laurita Jurčiūtė, who had suffered injuries, and Laura Juškaitė, who had recently contracted the coronavirus.
On Saturday, our team will still face the unprecedented Serbian national team (FIBA 8), which fell 71:82 in the first round.
Lithuania was the last in Group E, because the absolute alien Albanian team was eliminated from the tournament, which did not reach the “bubble” tournament in November.
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