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The Lithuanian team started in a 3×3 selection for the Tokyo Olympics in Austria with a landslide victory, but were saddened by a painful defeat on the first day.
In the second match, Lithuanians resent resentment after persistent struggle 20:21 landed on US basketball players.
From the beginning of the duel, the Lithuanians faced the problem of fouls: in just over two minutes our team committed 6 fouls.
However, the Lithuanians did not bother and scored seven unanswered points in the middle of the match and went ahead 11: 7.
Two minutes before the game, the intrigue reached the highest point: Šarūnas Vingelis scored points under the basket and increased Lithuania’s lead to 2 points (18:16).
Already on the other side of the field, Vingelis caused a foul by taking a long shot and after realizing the penalties he brought the Lithuanians closer to victory – 20:16.
However, the Americans responded with three unanswered points and with 28 seconds left, the teams were already separated by a single point – 19:20. Immediately after that, Darius Tarvydas lost the ball, and Joey King stabbed a long shot and snatched the USA win – 21:20.
Vingelis, who then crawled to Lithuania, scored 12 points. Tarvydas added 4, Kumpys – 3 and Pukelis – 1 point.
The United States national team was led by a duo of King and Kareem Maddox. These basketball players scored 8 points each. Dominique Jones added 3 points and Robbie Hummel added 2 points.
Four from Aurelijus Pukelis, Šarūnas Vingelis, Darius Tarvydas and Modestas Kumpis in the first match 21: 9 swept Kazakh basketball players.
Tarvydas was the most productive among the Lithuanians, who scored 10 points and closed the match with two precise points.
Pukelis scored 5 points, Vingelis – 4 and Kumpys – 2.
Live all day of the tournament:
In Group B the Lithuanians, Belgium and South Korea also fight. Lithuania will play for these teams on Saturday.
The national team coach Dainius Novickas reviewed all the competitors together with the website “BasketNews.lt”. The fifth member of the Lithuanian team Paulius Semaška monitors the events from abroad, his connection would occur if a player suffered an injury or was infected with COVID-19 and could not continue participating.
The top two teams in each group will advance to the playoffs. The two strongest teams in Group B will face the winners of Subgroup D in the quarterfinals.
The Netherlands, Latvia, Canada, Croatia and Austria compete in it.
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