The “Žalgiris” led by the incontinent Grigonis broke a series of six defeats / News

12/13/2020 Lithuania

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Kaunas “Žalgiris” (6-7), who led from the first to the last minute of the match, achieved their sixth victory in the Euroleague.

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Martin Schiller students on the move 81:69 (24:12, 19:21, 17:17, 21:19) defeated the Athenian basketball players of Panathinaikos (4-8).

With this victory, “Žalgiris” ended the streak of 6 consecutive failures that had plagued the team since the beginning of November.

This duel also captures a historical fact. Paulius Jankūnas ran across the parquet in the first half With 354 games he became the basketball player who played the most games in the Old Continent and surpassed Felipe Reyes.

The teammates greet Jankūnas after the match:

With 3 minutes to go, the Greeks endured a streak 7: 2 and then Georgios Papagiannis put it to 5 points (67:72). Soon the people of Žalgiris replied 4 unanswered and gained a 9-point lead after throwing Augustine Rubit (76:67).

A minute later, the match closed with a long pass from Marius Grigonis (79:69) and Žalgiris’ team celebrated the victory.

“Žalgiris” was led to victory by three-point Grigonis, who scored 24 points (3/6 doubles, 6/8 trit.) In 28 minutes, he bounced 6 and lost 3 balls, made 3 assists and scored 24 utility points .

The defender scored up to 6 triples in a duel with Pao and improved his personal record for long shots (5).

The match was best started by Žalgiris’ side, who managed a 6-0 win late in the first half and took a 9-point lead after long shots by Grigonis and Nigel Hayes (17: 8). In the closing seconds of the quarter, Paulius Jankūnas scored two points and Žalgiris was 24:12 ahead.

Man of the match

At the end of the second half, after a difficult two-point Pao from Nemanja Nedovičius, he went up to 6 points (28:34), but Žalgiris’s team organized a long-shot party, which was completed by Grigonis, who scored 18 points in the first half with three points from 9 meters (43:31).

After a long break, the hosts returned at a hurricane pace, maintaining a streak of 8: 0 in 81 seconds and after Nedovičius’s three points from Žalgiris’ double-digit lead, only 2 points remained (43:41) .

Soon Shelvin Mack tied the result by three points (50:50), but the Kaunas team maintained the 10: 0 streak and after the benefit of Augustine Rubit they regained a double-digit lead (60:50).

Rokas Jokubaitis started the successful part of the deciding quarter, increasing Žalgiris’ lead to a record 17 points (67:52). The 20-year-old scored all 10 points in 4 halves.

“Žalgiris”: Marius Grigonis 24 (6/8 trit., 6 rev. Cam), Nigel Hayes 14 (3/3 trit.), Rokas Jokubaitis 10 (3/5 diat., 5 bl.), Augustine Rubitas (eighth chamber) and Joffrey Lauvergne (8th section) after 8 o’clock, Thomas Walkup (8 res.) and Lukas Lekavičius after 5 o’clock, Artūras Milaknis 3 (1/4 trit.).

Panathinaikos: Nemanja Nedovičius 12 (2/7 trit.), Ioannis Papapetrou, Georgios Papagiannis (11 rev. Cam) and Shelvinas Mackas (3/4 trit.) 10, Konstantinos Mitoglou 9, Aaron White and Howard Sant-Roosas after the 7.

Match summary: