Maximum intrigue: “Lietkabelis” dramatically picked up “Rytas” and third place in LKL / News

Panevėžys Lietkabelis (23-13), who won the deadly battle at the end of the LKL regular season, triumphed in front of his fans, losing third place in the final standings.

Nenado Chanako’s students in a dramatic battle 85:79 (27:17, 17:25, 20:22, 21:15) defeated Vilnius “Rytas” (27-9) for the second time this season and pushed Utena’s “Juventus” (23-13) from the third position.

The inhabitants of Utena and Panevėžys tied for the standings, but Lietkabelis remained higher due to their mutual advantage.

Neptūnas and Šiauliai from Klaipėda will have up to two wins in the Lietkabelis quarterfinals. The start of the playoffs is already on Wednesday.

A minute and a half to go, Ivan Buva scored both penalties and “Rytas” was two points behind – 73:75.

In the next attack, George Gagičius made the second attempt under Vilnius ‘basket, Mindaugas Girdžiūnas lost the colon, Paulius Valinskas scored the colon and increased the hosts’ lead – 80:73.

After Mindaugas Girdžiūnas hit one of the two tickets, the capital club approached 77:81. However, after that, Vytenis Lipkevičius scored two points with Andrew Goudelock’s foul and the people of Panevėžys went wild in the “Cido” arena – 85:79.

LKL’s most productive player, Kyle Viñales (average of 16.9 points each) did not help Lietkabel in the fourth consecutive game.

With four minutes remaining, Martynas Echodas had to leave the pitch with a knee injury.

Andrew Goudelock shot 4 of 4 3-pointers in the first half of the match and came out with a 15-point long break and finished with 5 precise long shots of 9 and 20 points.

The Vilnius people made 19 mistakes in this match, while the Panevėžys people made 12 mistakes.

Lietkabelis: Paulius Valinskas 17 (4/8 diat., 2/5 trit.), Vytenis Lipkevičius (3/6 trit.), Margiris Normantas (4/7 dvit., 2/8 trit., 4 kd.) After 16, Gytis Masiulis 11 (6/8 penalty, 6th setback, 2 blocks), George Gagičius 10 (double 4/9, 9th setback), Marius Valinskas 9.

Rytas: Andrew Goudelockas 20 (5/9 trit., 4 res.), Mindaugas Girdžiūnas 14 (3/6 trit.), Ivan Buva 12 (4/5 double, 9 rec.), Gytis Radzevičius 11 (5/7 double , fifth room), Martynas Echodas 8 (4/5 doubles), Arnas Butkevičius 7 (fifth room, fourth trans.).

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