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Kaunas Žalgiris (5/1), who was left behind for most of the match, scored a difficult victory in the Euroleague.
Martin Schiller alumni in guests 83:74 (13:23, 28:27, 16:10, 26:14) broke Wilerban ASVEL basketball players (0/3).
For the French club, it was the first match to return to the team after a coronavirus outbreak, with the hosts signing up 11 basketball players for this match. But basketball players like Antoine Diot and Norris Cole didn’t play.
Rokas Jokubaitis, who fell ill in France, did not help the Žalgiris club.
Marius Grigonis scored 25 points for the winners. For him, this is the most productive game in the Euroleague during his career.
During the first three quarters, Kaunas’ team struggled with 218cm tall Moustaph Fallas, who scored just seven points but bounced seven balls in attack, provoked 11 fouls and scored 27 utility points.
Žalgiris’s team never won in the first half of the match. The hosts scored the first seven points, and in the ninth minute of the game after David Lighty’s pitch, the guests were 11 points behind. After the first half, Žalgiris fell behind 13-23.
In the successful second half, both teams scored 55 points together, but “Žalgiris” was in the role of chasing the entire half.
In the 16th minute of the game, the deficit of the Kaunas team increased to 13 points and was a record difference in the first half of the match.
After two quarters, Kaunas was 41-50 behind.
“Žalgiris” allowed opponents to score ten points throughout the third quarter and at the end of the third quarter, after four points in a row, Marius Grigonis came close to 57-60.
At the start of the fourth quarter, Paulius Jankūnas reduced the gap to one point, and in the second attack, Joffrey Lauvergne’s lead carried Žalgiris forward 61-60 for the first time.
In the seventh minute of the game, ASVEL briefly led by one point after three points, but then Lukas Lekavičius scored six points in a row and Žalgiris led 72-67.
With less than a minute left to play, M. Grigonis ‘points increased the visitors’ lead to six points. After that ASVEL made a mistake and the people of Žalgiris did not give up the victory.
The ASVEL club scored just 24 points in the second half of the match.
Žalgiris will play another Euroleague game against Real Madrid.
ASVEL: Charles Kahudi 18, Guerschon Yabuse 17, David Lighty 16, Paul Lacombe 10.
Žalgiris: Marius Grigonis 25, Lukas Lekavičius 13, Thomas Walkup 11, Martin Geben 9, Joffrey Lauvergne 6.
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