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The meeting marked the first battle for Jonas Valančiūnas, who was sent to Memphis in February last year, with his former team. The Lithuanian, who started the match in the fifth starter, faced aggressive double defense from rivals throughout the match, neutralizing all of the JV’s main attack weapons.
Utena’s player started the game with a mistake, which became an indicator of his entire future evening. Valančiūnas, who spent 27 minutes on the court, did not win a point (0/1 double, 0/1 trit., 0/2 penalty) and lost 4 balls. Jonas made up for the silent attack by bouncing 10 and taking 1 ball, making a block and pass.
The last time the NV left an NBA game without points was more than a year and a half ago. On January 20, 2018, the midfielder did not score in the game with the Minnesota Timberwolves, but Valančiūnas played only 11 minutes in that game.
During the duel, the Lithuanian received a series of nostalgic compliments from Raptors commentators Matt Devlin and Jack Armstrong. Long-standing votes from Toronto’s team game have repeatedly emphasized that John Toronto is still loved and remembered with only the best of words.
The Grizzlies managed to maintain the result only in the first quarter, when the Memphis team scored 7 of 13 shots, when their opponents were only 1 in 10. As soon as the second half began, the image on the field changed dramatically: Raptors defending the championship title they posted 7 of 11 long shots and built up a double digit lead.
In the third quarter, after Pascal Siakam’s impressive 3-pointer, Marc Gasol scored an extremely long and difficult long shot from the backboard, increasing the Canadian lead to fifteen points. Kyle Lowry added another challenging shot with the halftone siren, and the teams received a crushing 17-point lead on the Raptors before the deciding half.
While in the second half of the fourth quarter, the young Grizzly basketball players managed to withstand a lightning strike and reduce the delay to 4 points, I assure you that the Toronto team, which played at the end of the game, achieved the 50th victory. The Raptors reached that threshold for the fifth consecutive NBA regular season, and the game they won allowed them to secure second place at the final table of the Eastern Conference tournament.
The Grizzlies, for their part, suffered their fifth loss in six NBA bubble games and further complicated their hopes of making the playoffs. At the moment, the Memphis team still ranks eighth in the West, but it has already managed to squander almost its entire preseason gap on its immediate pursuers.
Grizzlies: Dillon Brooks 25 (8/16 dvit., 3/10 trit.), Grayson Allen 20, Ja Morant 17 (5/15 dvit., 10 res.), Brandon Clarke 16 points.
Raptors: Pascal Siakamas 26, Norman Powell 16, Kyle Lowry 15 (7th rec., 8 res., 4 rec.), Fred VanWleet 14 (4 rec.), Serge Ibaka 12 (12 rep.), Marc Gasolis 10 points.
In the previous game, the Washington Wizards (24-46) continued their desperate performance in the bubble tournament. Basketball players from the American capital, who suffered their sixth loss in six games, were 103: 121 (23:32, 25:32, 27:26, 28:31) in the Oklahoma Thunder (43-26).
The students of the victorious Billy Donovan settled in fifth place in the Western Conference. Leaving the Utah Jazz they also add 43 victories, but have lost one more game.
Magicians: Jerome Robinson 19 (4/9 trit., 6 res.), Isaac Bonga 14, Troy Brown and Moritz Wagner 12 each, Rui Hachimura 11 (8 sec.), Ish Smith 10 points.
Thunder: Darius Bazley 23 (5/8 trit.), Danilo Gallinari 20, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 18 (6th ed., 7th ed.), Mike Muscala 14, Hamidou Diallo and Chris Paul (6th ed., 9 rez. Lost. ) After 13 points.
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