After an unexpected failure, the team recovered by dealing with Latvia / News

07/25/2020 Lithuania

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The Lithuanian national team ended the short summer 2020 performance by sharing the victory with the Baltic neighbors. In the second match of the “Baltic Way” tournament in Tallinn, the students of Darius Maskoliūnas 82:59 (23:12, 26:15, 10:19, 23:13) outclassed the Latvian basketball players and rehabilitated after a failure on the first day of the tournament.

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On Friday, the Lithuanian basketball players had to recognize the Estonian advantage during overtime 85:92.

This time, the Lithuanians gained a double-digit lead in the first half (17: 6) and then, with a slight pause, only increased their lead.

For the winners, Grigonis scored 19 points in 20 minutes and hit 4 points from 3 points out of 6, when the day before, the goal was achieved with just 1 of his long 5-pitches.

The team’s mini-camp, which lasted more than two weeks and ended on July 10 in Palanga, ended with a match in Tallinn. The camp aimed to prepare basketball players for the club season and improve relationships ahead of next year’s Olympic playoffs.

“The fact that we are missing a lot, I said the same thing to the players: we need to bite our teeth to work, suffer and, most importantly, believe,” Maskoliūnas said after the duel. – We want to win every game, but our goal is not to win the “Baltic Way” tournament. If we look at the final goals, the most important thing for us is the summer and the selection for the Olympic Games. “

Starting the third quarter of the duel with Latvia with 3 unanswered points, ours had the biggest advantage in the match (52:27), but soon fell into the well. Latvians scored 13 unanswered points, thus reducing the deficit by more than half: 40:52.

Grigonis broke the hunger for points with a breakthrough, but Robert Štelmaher’s students scored another 6 points and his deficit was reduced to a single point: 46:54.

However, the Lithuanians finished the third quarter with five unanswered points, Grigonis started the fourth long shot and our lead became stronger again: 62:46.

When Tadas Sedekerskis and Lukas Lekavičius added three points each, there was no doubt about the result of the match: 68:49.

Lithuanian national team: Marius Grigonis 19 (4/6 trit.), Laurynas Birutis 13 (5th chamber), Marekas Blaževičius 12 (9th section).

Latvian national team: Kaspars Berzins 22 (5/9 trit.), Edgars Lasenbergs and Andris Misters 9 each.

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