The “morning” crisis continues: Vilnius residents capitulated against the “milk stars” led by T. Lekūnas

Pasvalys people started the match as if on their wings and the opponents were completely off guard.

Tomas Lekūnas, who fired three bombs from a distance, began to terrorize the defense of the capital’s guests from the first minutes of the match, and former Vilnius Rytas basketball player Karolis Giedraitis took the reins of the game into the forward’s hands.

Together, the two basketball players scored 27 of their 45 points in the first half of the game. True, the established double-digit lead “Milk Stars” did not hold for long and the team awarded 7 points (45:38) before the break.

After receiving a hiatus from Donald Kairis during the break, the LKL runners-up finally listened to their strategist’s requests to defend on defense and lost no points in the third for nearly 7 minutes, while accelerating quickly 17-0 (55:45).

At the end of the quarter, Mindaugas Girdžiūnas also staged a solo performance of three triples in three attacks, creating a record lead for his club (64:53), but Pasvalys did not retreat anywhere.

Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min / Tomas Lekūnas

T.Lekūnas, who started the decisive quarter with 11 points, returned the lead only to the hosts (68:67), and the question of the winner of the match was resolved in the final minutes of the match.

Just over a minute after A. Milutinovičius’s 3-pointers, the hosts led by 5 points (80:75), but Rytas reduced the difference to a minimum and took offensive tactics.

B.Mirkovičius took free throws (82:79), and C.McCullough’s triple, which could have been decisive, flew by: the Milk Stars celebrated a dramatic victory.

T.Lekūnas scored up to 29 points in this match and scored 36 utility points.

The long-awaited addition to the front row did not save “Rytas” from the third loss in a row and the fourth loss at all: Martynas Echodas, who healed his thumb injury, and Maurice Ndour, the team’s newcomer, competed.

However, the Vilnius team lost the fight for rebounds with a minimal difference (34:35).

Pasvalys “Milk Stars”: Tomas Lekūnas 29 (ninth recap, 11/12 penalty, 36 points), Karolis Giedraitis 15, Andreja Milutinovičius 12.

Vilnius “Tomorrow”: Andrew Goudelock 18 (5th ed., 24 helpful votes), Martynas Echodas 16 (8th ed.), Maurice Ndour 13, Mindaugas Girdžiūnas 11.