Jankūnas and Garinas, who organized the season’s performances, led the slimmer Žalgiris to victory in Panevėžys / News

In addition to the four main players, Kaunas “Žalgiris” (21-2) still celebrated the victory in the Betsafe – LKL championship.

Martin Schiller’s troop in a productive battle on the road 94:88 (26:30, 32:16, 18:18, 18:24) is about Panevėžys “Lietkabelis” (17-9).

Guests played in this match in addition to COVID-19 infected Nigel Hayes and Augustine Rubit, Artūras Milaknis, groin injury treatment, and back pain Joffrey Lauvergne. At that time, Margiris Normantas, who is being treated for trauma, is still unable to help the people of Panevėžys.

At the beginning of the fourth period, Patricio Garino took over the ball and loaded it from above (80:64), but after that moment the hosts won the stage 22: 5 and came close to the minimum – 86:87.

The decisive word in the match was Rokas Jokubaitis, who hit a triple with a siren (90:86), and then another technical foul was sanctioned by Nenadas Chanakas – 91:86.

Lietkabelis started the match strong and quickly gained a 9-point lead (26:17), but early in the second half, the Lithuanian champions locked up their opponents and defended them 18: 0 – 41:30.

After the break, “Žalgiris” did not slow down and after Paulius Jankūnas ‘points with a foul and Marius Grigonis’ three-point teams awarded a record 18 points in the 27th minute – 73:55.

Jankūnas, who organized the performance of the season among the winners, scored 21 points (3/3 double, 4/4 trit., 3/3 penalty) in 28 minutes, bounced 9 and took 2 balls, made 2 assists and scored 35 useful. points.

The Kaunas captain surpassed Virginijus Sirvydis (5,008) in the ranking of the most productive LKL players of all time. Now Žalgiris has risen to fifth position, having accumulated 5022 points.

Garino also had the best performance of the season. The Argentine scored 12 points (3/4 double, 2/4 trit) in 14 minutes, bounced 2 balls, committed 4 fouls and scored 8 utility points.

The hosts were not saved by the fantastic performance of Kyle Vinales: 28 points (7/10 doubles, 3/4 trit., 5/5 penalty), 7 assists, 5 errors and 28 utility points in 33 minutes.

Lietkabelis: Kyle Vinales 28 (7/10 doubles, 3/4 trit., 5/5 penalty, 7 res., 5 cb. 28, left), George Gagičius 19 (8/13 doubles, 9 rebounds, 26 ballots) , Paulius Valinskas 14 (4/8 doubles, 2/2 trit., 4 res., 3 per room), Panagiotis Kalaitzakis 8 (2/7 doubles, 7 per room).

“Žalgiris”: Paulius Jankūnas 21 (4/4 trit., 9 rep.), Patricio Garino (2/4 trit.) After 12, Marius Grigonis 11 (4 res.), Marekas Blaževičius 10 (5/6 diat. , 5 trans.