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The Kaunas “Žalgiris” basketball players had to strain their muscles to break the stubborn residents of Klaipeda.
“Neptūnas” stubbornly held out for three quarters until the LKL favorites held him back and made it to the cup final, where he will meet Panevėžys “Lietkabelis” on Sunday.
“For us, the game was what we expected: difficult. Joffrey Lauvergne was great under the baskets, Paulius Jankūnas also became very important in the course of the game in attack,” Kaunas “Žalgiris” coach Martin Schiller noted afterwards. of the party.
On Saturday, “Žalgiris” needed a powerful game from J. Lauvergne.
The Frenchman scored as many as 28 points in 25 minutes, with 13 points from two points out of 19. The midfielder still bounced 10 balls and all scores resulted in 32 utility points.
Great play by Paulius Jankūnas, who played even 29 minutes and scored 12 points. When the Kaunas club captain was on the field, the Žalgiris people scored 18 points more than their competitors, this is the best indicator in the winning team.
VIDEO: Match summary Citadele KMT: “Žalgiris” – “Neptūnas” [2021-02-13]
It was not an easy match for the Kaunas team, because the people of Klaipeda carefully protected Marius Grigonis. The leader of “Žalgiris” scored only 5 points, hitting 1 pitch of 6.
Also, Lukas Lekavičius, recovering from COVID-19, cannot help the league champions in the Panevėžys tournament.
In this match, “Žalgiris” scored fewer triples than opponents attacked more frequently (6/16, when “Neptūnas” 9/27), and even two points lost to Klaipėda (“Žalgiris” – 58%, “Neptūnas” – 62%).
After two halves, the prevalence of Žalgiris was only 3 points, and after three halves it decreased by one point. So M. Shiller did not get up from the substitute pair of the substitute bench: Steve Vasturia and Marekas Blaževičius did not play for a second.
“In a perfect world, we would rotate twelve players and divide the minutes evenly, but we really have to react to the situation and divide the time according to the specifications of the tournament and upcoming matches,” explained M. Shiller.
Žalgiris’ rival Lietkabelis reached the final on Saturday after convincingly beating Utena’s Juventus team, who had high tournament ambitions.
“There are great players there,” said M. Schiller about the Panevėžys club. – Kyle Vinales will have to be detained personally, Margiris Normant is a solid basketball player. There are solid and strong players under the basket, we will have to prepare seriously ”.
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