End of the road: Rytas, who created intrigue, painfully buried the chances in the Champions League / News

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Photo: FIBA

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The Vilnius Rytas (1-4) team’s march in the FIBA ​​Champions League will end with a group stage.

Donald Kairis’s students on the move 74:81 (22:23, 14:28, 21: 8, 17:22) landed on the Athens Peristeri (2-3) basketball players.

With this defeat, the Vilnius people lost all theoretical chances of advancing to the Champions League playoffs and the last Group E battle with the Strasbourg IG team will do nothing.

Peristeri started the deciding quarter with a streak of 11: 2 and after Jaye Crocketto 8 straight points, Vilnius residents were on the brink (60:73).

A minute later Andrew Goudelock stabbed two 3-pointers in a row, Martyn Echod added two points, and “East” suddenly flashed in hopes of fighting for the win (71:75).

Soon Terran Petteway scored two points, Goudelock responded with a foul and the Vilnius team came close to 3 points (74:77). However, 25 seconds later, Petteway scored two points (79:74), Goudelock’s long shot was inaccurate, and the victory was secured by Crockett (81:74).

“It just came to our knowledge then. We started the game well, both physically and emotionally, we controlled the situation, but we got caught in a deep hole, and the main reason was the loss of balls, which the competitors used perfectly,” Kairys emphasized , strategist from Vilnius.

The most productive player of the Greek club was Petteway, who scored 25 points (10/14 dvit., 1/6 trit., 2/2 penalties) in 36 minutes, bounced 4 and took 2 balls, made 4 assists, made 3 errors scored 23 utility points.

Man of the match

He was assisted by Crockett, who scored 19 points in 32 minutes (6/9 double, 2/3 trit, 1/1 penalty), 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 intercepted, 1 blocked shot and 27 utility points. .

Goudelock did not save Vilnius from defeat. The American, who led the team in the decisive moment, scored 23 points (5/9 dvit., 4/5 trit., 1/1 penalty) in 27 minutes, made 5 assists, lost and seized 1 ball and scored 23 utility points.

“It is a disappointing loss for our team. We knew the price of this match and we really wanted to win. We made too many mistakes and took the decisive round too late, Goudelock feared after the match.” At the end of the match, we showed a great game, I’m proud of how my team fought and we will try to learn from those defeats. “

„Peristeri“: Terranas Petteway 25 (10/14 dvit.), Jaye Crockettas 19 (7 atk. Com.), Ioannis Bourousis 11, Tre McLeanas 9, Marvinas Jonesas 8.

“Rytas”: Andrew Goudelockas 23 (5 rez. Lost, 4/5 trit.), Maurice’as Ndouras 15 (6 atk. Kam., 4 kl.), Martynas Echodas 14 (6 atk. Kam., 7 / 12 dvit.), Ryanas Boatrightas 9 (3/7 trit.), Dovis Bičkauskis 8.

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