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Thursday 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey. Group E Tournament of the European Women’s Basketball Championship. Lithuanian basketball players in the third game 55:67 (9:19, 20:14, 7:21, 19:13) lost to the Turks and lost all hope of reaching the final stage.
Match summary:
Lithuania started the game very badly, made many mistakes and fell 0:10 behind. The 15-year-old was lifted from the bench. Justė Jocytė. Not only was he able to drive the ball to the other side of the field, but he also quickly scored 4 points and organized the team’s attack much more successfully. The Lithuanians then closed in on the Turks by 6:10, but the rivals responded with their vigor and the difference again reached the double-digit mark (6:17).
The Lithuanians, who started the second part fantastically, came out of the “hole”, eliminated the double-digit deficit and tied the result (24:24). Unfortunately, then difficult-to-explain mistakes reappeared when the Lithuanians lost their balls on the other side of the pitch. This allowed the Turks to separate (26:33). It’s true, the last minute of the quarter scored a triple Kamilė NacickaitėSo before the break the Lithuanians had a deficit of 4 points (29:33).
The hopes of the Lithuanian national team were practically shattered in the failed third quarter. At the end of the quarter, Mūsiškės lost the stage with the result 3:14, and the Turks accumulated an overwhelming advantage (36:54). In the last quarter, the Turks were left without their coach Ceyhuno Yildizoglu. He was expelled from the game after the second technical foul. It is true that he did not get the Turks out of cancer. They held a double-digit lead until the end of the match. Unfortunately, the Lithuanian national team game was overshadowed by an unpleasant episode. The team leader got injured in the last minute Gintarė Petronytė.
The young basketball players of the Lithuanian national team gained great confidence in this match. J. Jocytė spent 23 minutes in the square. 16 sec., He scored 8 points (4/11 colon), made 4 assists, bounced 2 balls and scored 7 utility points. All these results are the career records of J. Jocyt in the Lithuanian national team in official matches. By the way, J. Jocytė again had the best “plus / minus” indicator among all Lithuanians (+4).
The 17-year-old gained even more confidence Audronė Zdanevičiūtė. He even spent 26 minutes in the square. 16 sec., Scored 3 points (0/2 of two points, 1/4 of three points), bounced 4 balls, made 3 assists, committed 4 times and finished the game with 5 utility points.
Lithuania: Kamilė Nacickaitė 17 points (6/16 shots), Giedrė Labuckienė 15 (9 rebounds, 18 utility points), Gintarė Petronytė 9 (5 rebounds), Justė Jocytė 8, Audronė Zdanevičiūtė 3, Laura Miškinienė 2 (8 rebounds), Gabriel 1ė Škinienė (5 errors, -6 utility points), Karolina Kazočiūnaitė 0, Justina Miknaitė 0, Kristė Timofejeva 0, Livija Sakevičiūtė and Daugilė Šarauskaitė did not play.
Lithuanians successfully stopped rival star Quanitrą Hollingsworth, who scored a foul and finished the match with just 5 points. 12 points for winners I play Bilgic, eleven – Olcay Cakir, po 10 – Gizem Yavuz Y Serif Onar.
Comments from Mantas Šernius and Justė Jocytė:
The Serbian leaders of the group (3-0) are already calm about their place in the European Championship. The Turks (2-2) were very close to the final stage, and the Lithuanians (0-3) lost all hope. The Albanian team, which did not reach the previous “bubble”, was disqualified and its results were annulled.
Only the top 5 of the 9 teams in second place in the pools will enter the European Championship. The Group E selection fights will end on Saturday, when the Lithuanians face the Serbs.
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