J.Valančiūnas, who played well, improved Ž.Ilgauskas’ record, but it was not enough for the victory



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J.Valančiūnas, represented by the Memphis Grizzlies (2-6) at the 90:94 house (24:19, 21:27, 24:21, 21:27) landed the Cleveland Cavaliers (5-4).

JV played 27.5 minutes, scored 17 points (5/9 dvit., 1/2 trit., 4/4 penalty), grabbed 10 balls, made 3 assists, intercepted a ball, blocked the shots of two opponents, missed twice and transgressed five times.

VIDEO: Jonas Valančiūnas performance against Cleveland Cavaliers


This was the double 195 in the career of J.Valančiūnas, which lasted the ninth season.

The 28-year-old Lithuanian outscored Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, the Lithuanian leader in doubles, for several years in this match. collected 194 duplicates.

It took J.Valančiūnas 567 matches to achieve this result, and Ž.Ilgauskas – 843 matches.

Despite the historic achievement of the joint venture, this did not bring victories to the declining “grizzly bears”.

With less than four minutes left in the moody game, the Memphis team still led 88:84, but the decisive minutes of the year were bogged down in attack.

Larry Nance and Andre Drummond, top of the Cavs, tied the score by two points, while the Turkish Cedi Osman scored three points two and a half minutes ahead of the Cleveland team with 91:88.

J.Valančiūnas fouled A.Drummond 90 seconds before play and slashed the Cavs’ lead to the point after hitting the fines, but the grizzly’s last attempts were unsuccessful.

Tyus Jones made a mistake early on, received a block from Isaac Okor on the next attack, and the same Cavs rookie played 10.6 seconds. charged from above and increased his team’s lead to 93:90.

The Grizzlies still had time for the final answer, but another rookie Desmond Bane’s shot was far from accurate, and Damyean Dotson secured the Cavaliers victory with a free throw.

In addition to leaders and important players Ja Morant, Jaren Jackson and Justise Winslow, the Grizzles had to play in this game, but also several rotating basketball players: John Konchar and Sean McDermott.

However, Cleveland team strategist JB Bickerstaff did not have an important “gentleman” in this meeting, as he did without the collage of Collin Sexton and Darius Garland, who scored 42.3 points on average.

The “grizzly”, who lost for the sixth time, fell to last place in the western conference.

“Grizzlies”: Jonas Valančiūnas 17 (10 rebounds), Brandon Clarke 14 (9 rebounds), Dillon Brooks 11 (4/13 pitches), Kyle Anderson 10 (4/12 pitches, 8 pitches)).

“Cavaliers”: Andre Drummondas 22 (9/20 dvit., 15 atk. Kam.), Larry Nance’as 18 (4/4 trit.), Cedi Osmanas 16 (2/8 dvit., 4/11 trit., 7 rez. Lost ).), JaVale’as McGee 13.



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