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Utena Juventus (22-13) repeated the club’s performance record in the Lithuanian basketball league and achieved an important victory in the fight for third place. Students of Žydrūnas Urbonas in the guests 112: 94 (26:16, 33:35, 27:20, 26:23) easily defeated Šiauliai (12-22).
| Man of the match | |
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EFF 39 |
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Mindaugas Kupšas |
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Points |
24 |
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Precision |
10-12 |
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Bounces |
8 |
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Effective transfers |
4 |
Juventus, who have played in the LKL since 2009, scored 112 points for the fourth time in club history and have never exceeded this limit.
However, Juventus improved the LKL’s season performance record by 108 points. They were won by Kaunas “Žalgiris” and Panevėžys “Lietkabelis”.
Following this victory, Juventus (22-13) LKL moved up to third place, but Lietkabelis (21-12), who fell to fourth place, has played two fewer games.
In the last game of the regular season, Utena Club will play with Prienai CBet. Lietkabelis has a mutual advantage over Juventus, so the people from Utena will remain in third position if they have one more win than the people from Panev gentežys.
Lietkabelis will continue to play with Kaunas “Žalgiris”, Alytus “Dzūkija” and Vilnius “Rytas”.
Juventus won the first half with a double-digit lead (26:16), but at the end of the second half, Šiauliai came close to 3 points (51:54). However, then Juventus ran 22:10, won 15 points (76:61) and kept the initiative until the end of the match.
“We play NBA basketball,” Šiauliai’s coach Antanas Sireika said after the game. – There were few spectators, there would have been more, they would have admired him more. Now the NBA is throwing 140-150 points each. And it didn’t take much for both teams to score 100 points each. That was our situation, we had to play with smaller people, much we did not hold one against one. You go to the rescue and they have exhausted our risks. Žygimantas Skučas, Gintautas Matulis and Aurimas Urbonas. They see that we are tightening, our risk has not been worth it. “
Fines are being issued this season
The Latvian Kaspars Berzinš did not help the residents of Šiauliai. Juventus operated without Martynas Gecevičius.
Mindaugas Kupšas stood out in the ranks of Utena’s team, which added 24 points (10/12 doubles, 4/4 penalties), 8 rebounds and 4 assists and 39 utility points in 22 minutes.
Ignas Vaitkus was the most productive among the winners with 25 points (6/9 dvit., 3/5 trit.).
Šiauliai’s team, Elvaras Fridriksson, scored 29 points (4/7 dvit., 4/8 trit., 9/12 penalties) in 28 minutes, bounced 2 balls and provided 7 assists.
Šiauliai: Elvaras Fridriksson 29 (4/7 doubles, 4/8 trit., 9/12 penalty, 7 res., 7 p., 27 assists), Mindaugas Lukauskis 18 (5/8 trit.), Martynas Varnas (4 res.), Justas Furmanavičius (5 rev.
Juventus: Ignas Vaitkus 25 (6/9 diat., 3/5 trit.), Mindaugas Kupšas 24 (10/12 diat., 8 reps, 4 res., 39 users), Gintautas Matulis (3/5 trit.) And Žygimantas Skučas (2/2 trit.) After 13, Bryantas Crawford 12 (6/9 penalty, 5 res.), Aurimas Urbonas 11 (3/4 trit., 6 sec. Cam., 6 res.).
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