Chance to recover: “Žalgiris” – CSKA 12:16 (7 min.) / News

Tonight, Kaunas “Žalgiris” (5-3) will seek to claim the sixth victory in the strongest tournament on the Old Continent in the Euroleague.

Martin Schiller’s students will take home the CSKA Moscow (5-3) neighboring tournament table at home.

• The BasketNews.lt website will traditionally help you watch the games, which will start at 8pm.

Jonas Miklovas, BasketNews.lt journalist at the Žalgiris Arena
After the presentation of the teams at the “Žalgiris” arena in Kaunas, it is customary to sing the Lithuanian anthem. The Euroleague prohibits playing it through loudspeakers, so in Kaunas fans sang the national anthem themselves. Today, for the first time, Euroleague matches are played in Kaunas without spectators, but basketball players were still waiting to hear the anthem after the presentation. As a simple song began to play through the arena’s speakers, Marius Grigonis looked at Žalgiris spokesperson Almantas Kiveris, who shook his head and it was clear to the team that there would be no anthem today. This is probably the first time in the last 20 years.

Edvinas Jablonskis, BasketNews.lt journalist at the Žalgiris Arena
Martin Schiller made changes to the starting five. Instead of the usual video, when Nigel Hayes starts the match, this time Paulius Jankūnas throws himself into the fight from the beginning.

The course of the match

0: 0, 1 min: The dispute is won by the hosts.
0: 4, 1 min: Hackett starts the match with two points. Milutinov adds two points.
3: 4, 2 min: Grigon’s long shot.
5: 6, 3 min: Adequate fines from Vasturios. Hilliard responds in kind.
7: 9, 4 min: Hilliard’s triple. Lauvergne responds with two points.
7:11, 5 min: Hilliard is still enraged. 7th consecutive American point.
7:14, 6 min: Another triple from Hilliard.
10:14, 7 min: Grigonis attracts the residents of Žalgiris. Its triple.

Edvinas Jablonskis, BasketNews.lt journalist at the Žalgiris Arena
During the first 6 minutes, Darrunas Hilliardas, who terrorized the Žalgiris defense, scored 10 points (1/1 double, 2/3 trit., 2/2 penalty) and 13 utility points. The rest of CSKA scored 4 points and scored 4 utility points.

12:16, 7 min: Schengen points. Grigonis responds with the corresponding fines.

Recently, the people of Žalgiris have been skidding onto the European front. Schiller’s army, which opened the season with 4 wins in a row, stumbled on matchday five of the Euroleague, when they lost 82:94 at home to the Valencian team.

Soon Žalgiris was back on the winning track, beating Vilerban’s bloody ASVEL (83:74). But for a short time, at home, the Kaunas basketball players had to admit the advantage of Real Madrid in the last seconds (90:93), and last Sunday Žalgiris’ team suffered one of the biggest defeats in the history of the club and it was even 28 points apart. ).

Before the game with CSKA, Kaunas strategist Martin Schiller highlighted the adjustments in defense.

“We have to try to keep the opponents ahead in defense. For me personally, this is the most important thing,” said the coach briefly.

Unlike “Žalgiris”, the Muscovites are currently on the road to victory. Dimitrios Itoudis’ students have won the last four Euroleague duels, have the same win-loss ratio (5-3) with Kaunas and share 4-5 places.

The Valencia Club (84:74), the Athens Panathinaikos (89:83) and the Vitoria Baskonia (89:86) represented by Rokas Giedraitis were killed on the CSKA road.

Will Clyburn will play the first violin in the ranks of the Russian club. The American scores 17.3 points in 28 minutes.

Despite the good sporting form that has been shown recently, the team led by Itoudis welcomes the duel with “Žalgiris” bleeding.

Today, CSKA will not be able to help Johannes Voigtmann, Alexander Chomenka and Janis Strelniekis injured due to illness.

Mike James, one of the team’s leaders, will appear today among the Muscovites, who missed the last Euroleague game with “Baskonia” from Vitoria due to the conflict with coach Itoudis.