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The latest COVID-19 tests arrived at the Rimas Kurtinaitis club on Saturday morning, so the Euroleague had to postpone the meeting between “Žalgiris” and “Chimki” on Friday.

15 minutes According to sources, all of the Chimki players’ tests retested on Friday were negative.

The Moscow-based club had to undergo urgent tests after two more cases of COVID-19 were reported in the Chimki camp on Friday morning, and Greg Monroe and Maxim Barashkov became ill. In total, five R. Kurtinaitis students suffer from coronavirus, also Janis Timma, Jordan Mickey and Jevgenijus Voronovas.

Instead of the match, the people of Žalgiris organized a team training session at the Mytiščiai Arena on Friday evening.

“The time of the match, the match clothes, but this is just a training session in Moscow,” shrugged the official Facebook page of “Žalgiris”.

“Žalgiris” found out about the postponed match about 2.5 hours ago. until the start of the game. The team had not yet left the hotel by the arena.

“It just came to our notice then. You will have to live with it. Attitudes towards postponed matches should not be merely negative. While it is a shame that our LKL match has been postponed, it is gratifying that we have a little more time to prepare. for the next Euroleague game, ”said M. Schiller on Friday night on Žalgiris TV.

After a long trip to Russia, Žalgiris will have a Euroleague double week: a match with Crvena zvezda in Belgrade on Tuesday and Anadolu Efes in Istanbul on Thursday.

By the way, when the 38-year-old Austrian was training for the Salt Lake City Stars team, his match was postponed almost right before the ball of discord.

The Lithuanian champions had to choose another training session before the match with Chimki on Saturday morning. After conducting an exercise at the Žalgiris Arena on Thursday and flying to Moscow on a private flight, the green and white in Mytiščiai planned only the Friday morning rally before the meeting.

Despite the good news at Chimki’s camp for more blind players, Rimas Kurtinaitis’ situation remains complicated. COVID-19 and trauma removed many surnames from the Lithuanian composition.

Due to injuries on Saturday, Aleksejus Švedas and Stevanas Jovičius will not play against Žalgiris, Errick McCollum cannot join the team yet, many questions have also been asked about Dairis Bertanis from Latvia.

15 minutes As far as we know, D.Bertanis is not ready to help the team in full force due to the injury and can only sit on the team bench due to the eight-player registration formality.

Getty Images / Euroleague.net nuotr./Dairis Bertanis

Now R. Kurtinaitis’ lineup before the battle with “Žalgiris” seems uninspiring.

The Lithuanian is left with the only real player Vyacheslav Zaitsev. In the first game of the Euroleague season with Athens’ Panathinaikos, the Russian, who came up from the bench in 20 minutes, scored 11 points and 5 assists. In the VTB league, a 31-year-old 190 cm tall defender accumulates an average. 4.5 points, 3.5 assists and 2.5 errors in 21 minutes.

Photo from Getty Images / Euroleague.net/ Vyacheslav Zaitsev

Sergei Karasiov, who is trying to take over the functions of organizer of the attacks, should escape in the starting position of the attacking defender. With PAO, the Russian scored 3 points in 26 minutes (0/5 years), and in the VTB league in 16 minutes he collects the average. 5 points each and 2.5 effective passes.

Getty Images / Euroleague.net nuotr./Sergejus Karasiovas

D.Bertanis took over as the player, but his participation in the match is doubtful.

In the lightweight forward position among the five starters, we will see veteran Yegor Vialcev, 35, celebrating his anniversary on match day. The forward did not compete with Panathinaikos, and in the VTB championship he ran across the park in the only meeting with Tallinn’s Kalev, where he scored 21 points in 30 minutes.

Getty Images / Euroleague.net nuotr./Jegoras Vialcevas

R. Kurtinaitis shoves two prominent leaders from his small Chimki team under the basket: Devina Booker and Jonas Jerebkas.

There is no doubt about his dominance: D.Booker with “Panathinaikos” scored 15 points and bounced 7 balls, and in the VTB championship he accumulates videos in 19 minutes. 11 points each and 4.3 rebounds.

Jonas Jerebko, a Swede who was pushed into an unfavorable central position for the rival defense, cut Kalev’s basket with 4 3-pointers and 30 points on Monday. Schiller’s skyscraper with “Panathinaikos” scored 9 points and 9 rebounds in 29 minutes, VTB prefers the video. 13 points each and 5 rebounds.

Euroleague.net nuotr./Jonas Jerebko

The choice of R. Kurtinaitis on the bench will be very sad. Returning to seek reinforcements, you can rely on the only veteran, Sergei Monia. The 37-year-old Panathinaikos forward scored 3 points in 20 minutes, picking up the average in the VTB league. 2.7 points in 19 minutes.

Photo from Euroleague.net / Sergei Monia and Rimas Kurtinaitis

There is also striker Vladislav Odinokov, 20 years old, 202 cm tall, who would make his Euroleague debut. In the VTB league he played a couple of games and spent 6 minutes on the field.

In the VTB championship, Chimki has still entered 20-year-old Vladislav Sharapov, 20-year-old, and 194-cm defender Ivan Evstigneyev, but they are not in the Euroleague bid.

If there are no surprises, the composition of the Euroleague Chimki with Žalgiris on Saturday will look like this:

Given Chimki’s difficult situation, the bookmakers consider Žalgiris the favorite of the match. However, Rimas Kurtinaitis, who has had several experimental lines during his career, is capable of surprising. The most important thing is not to be surprised by the organizers who have already postponed the match just before the teams warm up.