Rytas strategist, who fell into the pit, does not panic: we will suffer as much as we need

In Saturday’s Betsafe-LKL championship game, Rytas unexpectedly managed 94: 100 for Kėdainiai Nevėžis-Optibet. D. Kairys lamented that opponents scored 100 points by scoring just 4 points out of three out of 14 (29 percent accuracy).

“Tonight” Nevėžis “played a very good game. You can say without a triple scored 100 points. That says a lot about our defense,” said D. Kairys.

“For us to have a chance to win, there had to be a defensive game. We didn’t want to get into a points race, but we didn’t handle defensive situations. It was important to win the fight because of the bouncing balls, but we lost, we lost our physicality. ”, Continued the strategist.

Rytas works without the main player who left, injured Martin Echod and Andrew Goudelock, and rookie Maurice Ndour, who is still grappling with the visa issue in Senegal.

D. Kairys is not panicking about the current situation.

“The processes continue, we may reach Ndouro in a week, the search for a new player continues. Martynas Echodas is recovering quickly and will soon join the team. We will hold as long as we need. One, two weeks. Maybe three. We have to suffer “.

At the time, the Kėdainiai club coach Marius Kiltinavičius could be happy at the press conference that his students, who had lost their rhythm in the third quarter, regained the initiative at a crucial moment.

“I am happy for the men on my team. It’s fun to see them happy. The game was dominated by attack. The opponents played a lot and wanted to deal with a lot with individual skills.

After missing some 3s, we were scared of them and lost our defense system. Although we got stuck at the beginning of the third quarter, we managed to get back on track in the fourth quarter, and then we stopped our opponents for a long time.

Like in such a fast match, in the last quarter we really found a cure for his attack, ”said M. Kiltinavičius.