Unable to recover: “Žalgiris” crashed into Baskonia / News

Kaunas Žalgiris (13-10) ended Euroleague doubles week in Spain with a loss.

Martin Schiller students in Vitoria 68:81 (20:21, 16:24, 12:16, 20:20) landed on the local Baskonians (10-13), who broke a series of four defeats.

Kaunas managed to maintain their mutual advantage as they had their first match at home Žalgiris won 92:73.

Žalgiris, who lost the initiative in the second quarter, made a decisive round in the fourth quarter.

Nigel Hayes scored a double, Marius Grigonis scored a triple, Thomas Walkup took over the ball and Žalgiris’ deficit fell to 6 points – 68:74.

Still, Pierria Henry hit a very difficult colon, in the next attack he hit a triple, Tonye Jekiri scored under the basket and the end of the game was clear: Baskonia led 81:68.

Žalgiris lost the initiative in the second quarter. Alec Peters noticed the penalties, Pierria Henry and Luca Vildoza scored three points, the Argentine added a colon and Baskonia’s lead reached 9 points – 31:22.

Soon after, Vildoza scored another long shot, Ilimane Diopas scored 5 straight points and the hosts’ dominance rose to double digits (39:26).

The third quarter was tough, but in the end the Basques played more successfully again. Rokas Giedraitis shot from afar, Alecas Peters scored points under the basket and “Žalgiris” completed the decisive quarter with a deficit of 15 points – 46:61.

Alecas Petersas scored 15 points (5/5 dvit., 1/7 trit., 2/2 penalties), bounced 7 and took 1 ball, made 5 assists, caused 1 foul and scored 23 utility points.

In Žalgiris’ team, Thomas Walkup scored 14 points (4/5 doubles, 2/2 shots) in 28 minutes, bounced and grabbed 4 balls, made 4 assists, made 4 errors and scored 20 utility points.

Joffrey Lauvergne added 12 points (6/7 dvit., 0/1 penalty), 9 catches and 1 interception, 4 assists, 2 provoked fouls, 3 errors and 21 utility points.

The people of Žalgiris died today from mistakes. Kaunas lost 20 balls, while “Baskonia” – 11. The hosts also took twice as many balls – 12 against 6.

Baskonia scored 23 points of 39 (59%) and 9 long shots of 28 (32%). At that time, Žalgiris attacked from medium distance with 50 percent. accuracy (19 of 38) and shot 3s by 44 percent. precision (7 of 16).

“Baskonia”: Pierria Henry 19 (5/7 dvit., 3/5 trit.), Alecas Petersas 15 (5/5 dvit., 1/7 trit., 23 naud. Bal.), Luca Vildoza 14 (3 / 7 trit.), Tonye Jekiri 10 (5/9 dvit., 7 atk. Kam.).

“Žalgiris”: Marius Grigonis 17 (3/7 dvit., 2/6 trit.), Thomas Walkup 14 (4/5 dvit.), Joffrey Lauvergne 12 (6/7 dvit., 9 trans. 21 bal. Of use ), Nigel Hayes 7, Artūras Milaknis 6, Martin Geben 4, Lukas Lekavičius, Augustine Rubitas and Rokas Jokubaitis 2 each.