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Although the Kaunas basketball players never took the lead during Friday’s Euroleague match and were forced to acknowledge the Milan team’s 64:69 advantage, the Lithuanian champions, according to Italian journalists, were almost nothing behind the leaders of the Italian league.
“Olimpia have won a match of suffering in Kaunas,” the website BasketItaly titled the article about this duel.
“The matches at Žalgiris stadium were tough and difficult, but Olimpia won with a tense finish. From the first minutes it was clear that the defense would prevail. Both teams tried to prevent opponents from accumulating points with three-point shots,” emphasized BasketItaly the most important aspects of the game.
“Excellent defense determined Olimpia’s victory in Kaunas,” noted the game on his side of the field on another Italian basketball website, PianetaBasket.
“The Milan team broke the Kaunas team and saw the playoffs”, the importance of the victory of the multiple Italian champions was emphasized in the headline by the Milan sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport.
“It just came to our knowledge then. The Milan team broke the Kaunas team, got the second victory of the match and got a tranche and a half in the playoffs, calculated the Gazzetta dello Sport.” Olimpia was pulled by three leaders: first, Shavon Shields, who scored 23 points and released infinite energy, followed by Kevin Punter and Mr. Europa Kyle Hines. “
Among the Zalgiris, the Italians liked Marius Grigonis and Joffrey Lauvergne the most.
But the star weapons of the Milan team were sharper on Friday.
“Shields led the Milan team to victory over Grunwald,” another Italian sports daily, Tuttosport, said in the headline, Olimpia.
