“Neptūnas” left without Gailius, who did not contain emotions, he did not resist Lietkabelis / News

Panevėžys “Lietkabelis” (2-2) achieved a landslide victory in the Lithuanian basketball league for the second time this season in the fight against Klaipėda “Neptūnas” (1-2).

This time in the port city, Nenad Chanak’s students met no resistance and triumphed 81:53 (25:16, 22:15, 19: 5, 15:17).

In the season opener at Panevėžys, Lietkabelis crushed Neptūnas 83:62. This match took place a week and a half ago.

Both victories achieved by Lietkabelis this season are precisely against Neptune.

David Gailius was expelled from the court 8 minutes before the end of the match and Neptūnas fell behind 42:69 due to disputes with the referees and emotions.

The first technical foul was awarded to Gailis by judge Andžejus Urbanovičius. Gailius was anxious, he had to be stopped by teammates, and then another referee, Jurgis Laurinavičius, called a disqualification foul.

For Klaipeda residents, this was the first loss at home this season. Before that, they had won one LKL match and two KMT matches in their arena.

“Neptūnas” did not have Edgaras Želionis, the tough forward.

The anti-record performance of “Neptūnas” LKL is 41 points, which the Klaipeda club scored in 1998.

Benas Griciūnas Placement:

In the first three minutes, Lietkabelis scored 4 points out of three of 5 and broke 9 points – 14: 5. Vytenis Lipkevičius covered two 3s, Kristupas Žemaitis and Dovydas Giedraitis each.

Midway through the second half, Lietkabelis had scored 8 3-pointers of 15 (53%), allowing the team to lead 37:21. The same 3-pointers by Panevėžys also scored after two halves, when they held a 16-point lead (47:31).

Man of the match
	EFF sixteen
Kristupas Žemaitis
Points	8
Precision	3-5
Bounces	6
Effective transfers	4

After playing for two minutes in the third quarter, Lietkabelis ‘lead after Gediminas Orelikas’ triple for the first time exceeded 20 points (52:31).

Lietkabelis continued to increase their lead and began to crush the people of Klaipėda: after three quarters, they awarded 30 points to the teams, and Neptūnas had scored just 36 points.

Karolis Giedraitis played the Lietkabelio team’s first game this season. The defender, who recovered from the injury, scored 2 points (1/2 dvit., 0/2 trit.) In 14 minutes and made 1 effective pass.

All 12 basketball players scored points on the Lietkabelis team.

“Neptune”: Deividas Gailius 12 (2/5 trit.), Matas Jogėla 11 (5/11 double, eighth chapter), Benas Griciūnas 8 (3/8 double, eighth chapter).

Lietkabelis: Panagiotis Kalaitzakis 12 (7/7 penalty, 5 rebounds), George Gagičius 10 (4/8 double), Gediminas Orelikas 9, Nikola Radičevičius (2/4 trit.), Gabrielius Maldūnas / 5 points), Kristupas Žemaitis (2/4 trit., 6 rev. Ch., 4 res.) And Dovydas Giedraitis (2/5 trit.

Match summary: