The historical record of Milaknis LKL adorns the victory of Žalgiris in Kėdainiai / News

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Artūras Milaknis became the player with the most 3-pointers in Betsafe-LKL history, and Kaunas basketball players “Žalgiris” (13-2) were back on the winning track.

Martin Schiller students on the move 78:47 (22:18, 23:14, 12: 8, 21: 7) defeated the basketball players of Kidainiai Nevėžis-Optibet (6-13).

For Kėdainiai’s team it was the eleventh loss in 12 games. With 6 wins and 13 failures, David Gale’s students are in eighth place. At that time, Žalgiris with 13 wins in 15 matches is the only leader of LKL.

This match was extraordinary for sniper Milaknis de Žalgiris, who hit 2 3-pointers and was enough to overtake Giedrius Pečiulionis (844) and become more and morethe player with the most pitches in league history (845).

Pečiulionis has spent nine seasons in the LKL 844 three points scored on 302 matches, it took 420 matches for Mil to surpass the legendary meticulous at the time.

The match was better started by the hosts, who gained 7 points ahead of Joffrey Lauvergne’s colón (15: 8), but at the end of the first half, Kėdainiai slightly reduced the difference and approached 18:22 after the Colón by Julius Kazakauskas. .

At the start of the second quarter, Sedrick Barefield cut Žalgiris ‘lead to a minimum of three points (21:22), but the LKL champions maintained a powerful 13: 0 streak and after Milaknis’ shot they gained a double-digit lead of a distance (34:21).

The break of the game came after a long break, when Žalgiris ‘men organized a 10: 3 streak and after Rokas Jokubaitis’ two-point lead they reached 20 points (55:35). After this fall, Nevėžis-Optibet could not recover and the guests celebrated the victory.

Man of the match

Today, only 5 players scored in the Kėdainiai team, at that time all 11 basketball players registered in Žalgiris scored points.

Žalgiris’ most useful player was Martin Geben, who scored 9 points (3/4 dvit., 3/3 penalty) in 18 minutes, bounced 6 and took 1 ball, made 1 effective pass, made a mistake and scored 19 of utility. points.

Despite the defeat, Nevėžis-Optibet strategist David Gale emphasized that most of the match was given to the LKL champions.

“I think we fought against Žalgiris for 37 minutes and played hard,” said the coach after the match. – At the end of the day, there is a reason why “Žalgiris” has 13 wins and is the leader of the LKL, but we fought for most of the match. Still, his pressure got us off the crayfish, we didn’t make many free throws. If we look at the numbers, we made our opponents make a mistake 15 times and we improved our score after the mistakes.

Žalgiris boss Coach Schiller emphasized defense as the main key to victory.

“I am satisfied with the performance of the team in defense in the second half of the game. Of course, we couldn’t take free throws, but we defended well, which helped us break the game and was very important,” said the 38-year-old specialist .

“Žalgiris”: Karolis Lukošiūnas 11 (3/6 trit., 5th chamber), Rokas Jokubaitis 10 (5/11 double), Martin Geben (6th chamber) and Augustine Rubitas (5th chapter) cam.) After the 9th, Nigel Hayes and Joffrey Lauvergne (4/5 dvit.) After 8, Marius Grigonis 7.

Nevėžis-Optibet: Sedrick Barefield 15 (4/8 trit.), Ariel Hukporti 14 (5/10 diat., 5 rev. Ch., 5th grade), Panagiotis Kalaitzakis 10 (2/8 trit., 6 rev. . Kam.).

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