Žibėnas on Juventus protest: “Maybe he is waiting for help from the judges” / News

The Vilnius “Rytas” achieved a dramatic victory, and the last episode of the duel caused no less passion, in which the judges did not give a foul to Bryant Crawford, three years old. However, Rytas head coach Giedrius Žibėnas was inclined to agree with the judges’ decision.

“We started the game with a lot of discipline, we prepared the task and the focused players carried it out,” said Žibėnas after the match. “In short, we played our basketball in the first half and what we had in store.”

“We played his basketball in the second quarter. We started talking, we got into some provocations, nonsense and as a result, Juventus scored 30 points during the quarter. This is not our basketball.

The discipline was gone, and after a long break he continued. Today we have had a hard time choosing when to knock down and when not to. The choice of the offenders was not correct. In the decisive part of the game, we started to change everything, which worked the most for us. We stopped his three-point shooting.

Of course, we did not defend ourselves today. “86 points is a lot, but the players showed character and respect for them,” added the “Rytas” strategist.

– Juventus protested the last episode. How do you rate it?
– If the judges did not whistle, then there was no infraction. I believe that the protest is made to help the future. Maybe expect help from the judges, I don’t know. I don’t want to interfere.

There was no offense if you didn’t whistle. Let’s finish there. We can also select 17 episodes of the game and comment on them. Here’s an episode. Maybe controversial, maybe not, but the judges do a good job.

– When do you expect to see Arna Butkevičius and Kristjan Kitsing in the lineup?
– We hope to see Arna on Tuesday, and the Kitsing trauma is not as easy as we expected. I don’t want to go too much into medicine, but it has something to do with a broken collarbone and we’ll only investigate a little more in two weeks.

The season is definitely not over for him, but we hope to have it in 2-3 weeks.

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