Urbon predicts Žalgiris’ victory against Rytas: “They should stop the attack by Vilnius residents” / News

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Žydrūnas Urbonas, the head coach of Utena “Juventus”, missed the best game of the students in the fight against Kaunas “Žalgiris”.

After the 63:84 defeat, the Uteniškis helmsman appealed to the bad blow of his basketball players from good positions.

“We weren’t worth hanging out today and we have some chances in the game,” Urbon said at the press conference. – Poor game for us, without listening. It’s wrong to feel like we’ve already done something. We are not the team that has to prove something, we have the same budget as Šiauliai and other teams. “

“The players start to think that they are very good, but today they lost 10 times outside the basket, which tells us what level of players we have,” Urbon continued. – For how much we buy (players), we have such and we need to look at ourselves with self-criticism. Of course “Žalgiris” won 20 points against (Istanbul) “Anadolu Efes”, no wonder they beat us, but we just didn’t play today. “

“Juventus” has already managed to play with the two greats of LKL this season – in the first round the Urbonas students 77: 106 landed in Vilnius “Rytas”.

Urbonas evaluated both teams’ chances of winning before the meeting between Žalgiris and Rytas next week.

“In terms of physique, Žalgiris is ahead of Rytas, as well as defense, but the latter plays basketball based on attack: he runs and shoots. But I think” Žalgiris “should stop him a bit. Of course, the neighbors of Vilnius will have home advantage, but I would continue to bet on those who defend the best, regardless of the potential of Rytas and the players they choose, ”Urbonas said.