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Last summer’s chord of the Lithuanian short national team was unpleasant to Latvian ears.
In the second match of the friendly tournament “Baltic Way” in the Estonian capital, Darius Maskoliūnas’ students met with the Latvian team 82:59.
This time, the Lithuanians dominated the Saku Suurhall arena from the first minutes and allowed rivals to regain confidence for a short time only in the third half.
However, the team’s attack leader, Marius Grigonis, remained convinced that a couple of weeks of preparation was not enough to hit the game correctly.
On Friday, the defender went as if he had sold the land and called Estonia’s defeat a disgrace.
After a day, her mood at least improved.
“It took me a long time in Kaunas” Žalgiris “before mastering this system, which we also used in the national team. Yesterday,” at the critical points “it looked the same, but after rethinking everything, I understand that it is difficult to explain the system to all in no time. And there were still a lot of similar bugs today. You need more workouts, more time. Of course, it will never be enough, but I hope it’s easier through the selection windows.
And in terms of positives, after such a long break, it was a lot of fun for me to play basketball. It is good that this tournament has taken place. I missed not only that defeat for the Estonians, the mention of depression when the loser returned to his room. Here is the worst side of basketball “, – opened Žalgiris, who scored 19 points on the Latvian basketball court.
On Saturday, he was best assisted by the middle forwards: Laurynas Birutis and Marekas Blaževičius recorded similar statistics and both scored 16 profit points each.
It was easier for newcomer M. Blaževičius to compete in the second match than in his debut.
“I felt freer than yesterday, my teammates helped me. We started with good energy and we helped each other: the support of the teammates was excellent. For me, this experience is a step forward,” said the 18-year-old Center.
At that time, Major Rokas Jokubaitis ran on the parquet this time, mainly on the team, 23 minutes.
“Yesterday we allowed Estonians to escape, we led only a few times.” This time the energy was good from the start, so only the formalities remained. It is good that we have finished the tournament without surprises, ”said the player who scored 4 points and made the same number of successful passes.
He called the team-topped team camp in Tallinn “the best this difficult summer could have had.”
“We didn’t go for a walk, the coaches wanted to bail us out when necessary.” It’s a shame the tournament ended without a grade, but the camp itself was cruelly Useful.
If he hadn’t trained with Lukas Lekavičius at Žalgiris all season, it would be a great challenge for me to meet him in the national team exercises. Pressing that player one-on-one from the baseline is a really difficult job. Of course, even with a player as experienced as Mantas Kalnietis, it is very useful to play sports “, – R. Jokubaitis was happy with the experience gained.
We remind you that on Friday, after the 85:92 extension, the Lithuanians unexpectedly capitulated against the competition hosts.
On Sunday, the tournament in Tallinn will end with the confrontation between the Estonian and Latvian teams.
The three-team international tournament “Baltic Way” is organized to mark the centenary of Estonian basketball.
The origins of Estonian basketball go back to 1920, although the starting point can be found as early as 1913.
It was then that the young people who came to Narva from the Majak club in Saint Petersburg demonstrated to the Estonians for the first time how to play basketball. In one of the capitals of Tsarist Russia, the Americans had previously introduced the rules of the new sport.
However, in Estonia, the history of basketball has been calculated by convention, as the basics of basketball and volleyball were taught in two schools in Tallinn.
The Estonian Basketball Federation was founded in 1923, in 1934 it was admitted to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), and two years later, the national team appeared for the first and only time at the Berlin Olympics, where it occupied the 9th place among 21 teams.
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