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Utena “Juventus” started the King Mindaugas Cup (KMT) quarterfinals well, defeating Vilnius “Rytas” in the first home game by 89:87.
Juventus strategist after the game Žydrūnas Urbonas highlighted his team’s brilliant newcomers and Ryto’s woes on defense.
“Victory is victory, one way or another, it is good to win in the morning. The work is not finished yet and it is hard for us to understand it,” said the strategist.
– It seemed that at the end of the game you really wanted to increase the advantage, how important was that?
– Of course, it was important, the difference is if you have five, six or ten points. There were adventurous decisions, attempts. Clearly, it is better to be in the plus, one way or another, a colon is a colon.
– The nervousness was visible at the start of the match, does that mean your team was exceptionally excited for such a responsible match, when they were sometimes called a series favorite?
– Well, don’t start talking about favorites here. Yes, we played the first game this year, which really made a difference. Before the NKL clubs, the difference in level was felt, and now it was the first match with the threatening team. The correct observation was that tension was felt. At the beginning of the match we were able to stay ahead, but they escaped, because we completely missed the free kicks, we were able to sing the first column of the Lithuanian anthem while standing and only then did we shoot, but we already succeeded. After that, little by little, we picked up the pace, we took them and the photo was fun.
Clearly, they play very individually on defense, with little team action. We knew Goudelock was doing it, but Boatright was identical, a one-on-one man, so Butkevičius and squares run without catching the ball. It was difficult to solve them, but at the end of the match we solved it in a rather interesting way. They have high-level defenders.
– How much did your team improve Vaidas Kariniauskas?
– Vaidas Čepukaitis improved our team today. A person does a lot of dirty work, defends, hits balls, talks, emotions on a bench, in the locker room … bajeriukai. This is an added value. It gave a lot, and for Mindaugas, immediately in training, the competition appeared, you see, certain situations happen or do not happen. As a coach, I am very happy that he came. Kariniauskas, yes, he is a very high level player, but he is still too hot. Gale took such adventurous situations in the end, he desperately wanted one to attack and launch. We will continue to work with him and discover that ideal option.
– Did you emphasize the interruption of the rapid attacks in the morning before the game?
– Yes, we knew it because they are declaring it in an open text. They play that run and shoot game where it’s wide open. The adventure game is played, opened and poured, poured. Okay, I’m not saying anything, that’s the coach’s strategy, we knew it and we stopped him. I wouldn’t say we did well today, getting 3s off Goudelock and Boatright. Those things need to be managed because such an adventure may not go well for long.
– Why were you so angry in the second half after the infraction was recorded?
– Very good question, having a microphone I want to address. There was a time when such transgressions were eliminated and whistled very masculine, just as it should be. I’m not saying the judges made a mistake today, maybe I reacted too strongly. In the Euroleague, too, these violations have started to whistle too much when it comes to acting. Imagine what message is sent to a team if a player cheats, stands up, and collapses at the slightest touch. Yes, there is contact, but I imagine it should be like a bull standing in front of a train.
Now taking a two-step step after the first aggressive step, you stop, tap lightly and immediately fall off, it’s a concrete performance, nothing will change that for me. Submission of a non-male game. Is football fun when it crashes for five minutes? Little by little it comes down to basketball and it just makes me nauseous. Uleck does it all the time, not just anymore. It seemed to me that there was a specific performance, maybe I’m wrong, but situations like this bother me and next time I’ll probably still be hot.
– What reactions do you expect from your opponents on January 16?
– I don’t care what they do. I wonder what we will be, it is much more important to me. If we want blood as it is today, it will be fine.
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