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“The Milan team is back on the winning track despite squandering a 20-point lead gained thanks to the excellent play of Kevin Punter, Shavon Shields and Zach LeDay. The successful section of Rokas Jokubaitis, Lukas Lekavičius and Augustinas Rubitas helped the Lithuanians to return to the match, but in the end it was all solved by Sergio Rodríguez, Kyle Hines and Malcolm Delaney, ”wrote La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“Individual dominance and experience at the decisive moment allowed Rodriguez and Delaney to propel the team forward, and while the memorable 15-point youngster Jokubaitis kept Žalgiris in the fight, the champion’s three-point winners shattered Lithuanian ambitions. The attacks by Nigel Hayes and other Žalgiris in the final seconds were useless, “added the largest Italian sports daily.
The Milan team, which broke the two-loss series, rebalanced their wins and losses to a positive 4/3, but the Italian website basketinside.com highlighted that Armani Olimpia is expected to show much more than it has shown in what that is in season.
“In an unexpectedly tense match, the Milan team obtained a psychologically important victory. Although the other team with 20 points would have been broken in such a situation, Armani Olimpia found the answers: the game of Punter, Rodríguez, Hines and Delaney maintained the victory in the hands of the hosts.
It was a carousel of points controlled by those who were most confident in the attack. The advantage of the Milan club was having Punter, who constantly, even when the team lacked confidence, showed the clubs an example of how “Žalgiris” should be attacked. That is why he is the MVP of the match.
In any case, both teams have shown that they not only have strengths in attack, but also large gaps in defense. They will not allow these clubs to compete with the grandparents of the Euroleague.
This is not expected of the Kaunas team, but Armani Olimpia’s situation is different: they are a higher level club that has to play better against Žalgiris.
If the situation does not change, the Milan team will have to fight for the place in the playoffs until the last round, and the powerful team signed by E. Messina was definitely not up for such a show, “wrote basketinside.com.
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