Pascualis, who was happy with the team’s performance, praised Gudaitis: “He is one of my favorite players” / News

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Zenit Saint Petersburg, who claimed their sixth win in eight Euroleague matches, remain among the best teams in the Euroleague. On Thursday, Xavi Pascualis’s students in Kaunas got along with Kaunas basketball players “Žalgiris” 83:75 without major problems and achieved the fifth victory of the same amount.

After the duel, the Zenit strategist was happy with the work of his students on both sides of the field.

“We were very good in defense, and we played very solid in attack for almost 35 minutes, controlling situations, being intelligent,” Pascualis said after the duel. – We finished a difficult stretch with many matches on trips, we play every other day.

We had a plan to attack certain barrier situations, as well as certain situations in the game’s penalty area, as well as build under the high barriers. We were successful.

We have been effective and we have not always been before. In fact, we play better than in Vitoria. We played with the intention of making an extra pass, we felt the game from the beginning ”.

Zenit hit five of the first six 3-pointers and won 14 points early on, and after three consecutive long-range bombs early in the third quarter, their lead jumped to 20 points.

According to Pascual, all this is the merit of a well executed attack.

“It all starts with our work,” Pascual said. – We create advantages and we do it with good launches. It is important to have more than just a good pitcher or a good night. It also matters how those pitches are created. We had good pitches tonight. Creating an advantage requires making a triple or taking a penalty from under the basket is part of basketball. “

Artūras Gudaitis, who started the game in the top five of Zenit, scored 6 points in 18 minutes and, after the duel, coach Pascualis did not spare him a good word.

“It just came to our knowledge then. At the beginning of the season, he was unlucky: he was traumatized, fell for three weeks, then contracted the virus and dropped out of school for 15 days. But he comes back step by step, said Pascal. – In Vitoria it was very important. He is improving every day and I am happy with him, he is considered one of my favorite players and one of the most important players on our team. I am sure that his game will improve and he will play better. “