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R. Kurtinaitis could only release 7 of his players to the field.
The eighth and last remaining on the bench, Dairis Bertanis, was injured. It was recorded by Chimki only for the minimum number of basketball players for Euroleague matches.
Up to five positive coronavirus tests (Janis Timma, Jordan Mickey, Greg Monroe, Maxim Barashkov, Yevgeny Voronov), two traumas (Alexei Swede and Stevan Jovic), and self-isolation rules (Errick McCollum) removed all trump cards from Rimas Kurtinaitis .
R. Kurtinaitis lifted even 20-year-old Vladislav Odinokov from the bench, for whom it was his Euroleague debut a few years later in the Chimki doubles. By the way, the young Russian was surprised: he scored 11 points in 18 minutes.
The most prominent Chimki leaders, Jonas Jerebko and Devin Booker, had to play 38 and 36 minutes, respectively.
The 37-year-old veteran Sergei Monia probably doesn’t remember when he played 30.5 minutes. Yegor Vialtsev, who celebrated his 35th anniversary on match day, played 25 minutes, Sergei Karasiov 27, Vyacheslav Zaitsev 26 minutes.
By way of comparison, Augustine Rubitas played in the ranks of “Žalgiris” for the longest time: 29 minutes. No other Žalgiris resident has been on the parquet for more than 26 minutes.
“I want to congratulate the people of Žalgiris for the victory. Today they were stronger, said R. Kurtinaitis after the match. – I do not want to look for excuses, but there were reasons for this defeat.
It is difficult to play a Euroleague game with six players. Whether you play at home or while traveling. It was a big problem.
But I think my players made the most of it today. Now is the time to wait for the injured and sick players to return. “
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Even the boss of “Žalgiris” consoled a colleague in an unenviable situation after the victory. Coach Martin Schiller: “I sincerely wish Chimka good luck in not getting carried away by trauma and especially illness. I hope they get in touch with you soon. “
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