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The start of the ALBA and Žalgiris matches will be at 9:00 p.m. Follow the progress of the meeting 15 minutes portal.
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The people from Žalgiris started the season with four wins in a row, then had a series of six failures, and just before the end of the round they started to climb again by winning four times in a row.
In Berlin, “Žalgiris” will have a chance to win for the tenth time this season, thus placing himself in the top eight of the Euroleague after the first round.
Statistically, one of the worst teams in the Euroleague will face the residents of Kaunas in the final match of 2020.
Although he is 13th in the ALBA rankings with 6 wins and 9 losses, he has already beaten his opponents six times this season by 18 points or more. The offensive ranking of the Berlin club in the Euroleague is the penultimate and the third of the defense from behind.
Before the final first-round match, the Germans also heard unpleasant news from doctors who reported that Euroleague head coach Aito García Renaissance, 74, had contracted the coronavirus. In the match against Žalgiris, he will be replaced by the Israeli González, a Spaniard almost 30 years younger: it will be his leadership in the Euroleague.
“First of all, we want Coach Aito to recover as soon as possible, that’s the most important thing. Second, this duel will be a great test for our defense by stopping the sudden transition of opponents from defense to attack and preventing ALBA snipers from launching. They play very well in a fast attack and shoot a lot of 3s, ”said M. Schiller at the press conference on the eve of the match.
ALBA and Žalgiris will meet for the seventh time. So far, the teams are beating each other only by playing at home: the Žalgiris people in Berlin lost all three times in 2013, 2015 and 2019.
The course of the match
I half. ALBA – “Žalgiris”
15 minutes. The crossing of L. Sikma from afar and the difference grows threateningly – 25:17.
14 min. ALBA turns 7: 0 and its advantage is a record: 22:17.
13 min. The first three-point match. Unfortunately, he was beaten by the Italian from ALBA Simone Fontecchio – 18:17.
12 min. “Žalgiris” is slowly waking up from his dream. After R. Jokubaitis points, the residents of Kaunas again take the lead, 14:15.
I half. ALBA – “Žalgiris” 14:12
10 minutes. Hardly any of these more attack-oriented teams expected such a slimy first half. “Žalgiris” did not hit the match for more than six minutes, until Martin Geben charged from above in the closing seconds and made a mistake up to eight times in total.
8 min. With a free kick, Rokas Jokubaitis evens the score – 10:10.
8 min. The Žalgiris people can’t hit from the game for almost four minutes. It is good that the defense works from the heart, and this is illustrated in the Paulius Jankūnas block – 8: 7.
5 minutes. ALBA forward for the first time – 8: 6.
5 minutes. At the moment, Žalgiris is involved in the aggressive defense of ALBA, which does not avoid bending the people of Žalgiris. Even now, Kaunas couldn’t throw the ball for 24 seconds. 6: 6.
3 min. Lauvergne showed Johannes Thiemann the back of the game, but Luke Sikma also scored 4: 4.
2 minutes. The first points of the match are only after playing almost two minutes. In the fast attack, the opponents are penalized with two points by M. Grigonis – 0: 2.
In the initial fifth of “Žalgiris” there are normal faces: Thomas Walkup, Marius Grigonis, Artūras Milaknis, Nigel Hayes and Joffrey Lauvergne.
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