Aris “bent” in the end and left Lietkambelis home defeated

He fought it, but left defeated by Lithuania and its home Lietkampelis The Mars.

The Thessalonians were competitive throughout the match, but eventually ran out of steam and were defeated by , paying for the fact that many of their players had trouble with fouls entering the “final stretch” of the match, having earlier lost Blombergs to injury. Thus, Aris experienced its second defeat in as many games that it has given for the 2nd group of this year’s Eurocup, while the next matchday will host last year’s finalist of the competition, Turk Telecom, at “Alexandrio” (18/10, 20:00) .

Leaders for Mars in Lithuania are Toliopoulos (19p.), Souza (16p, 11 rebounds) and Harrell (15 points), while Sirvidis (21 points), Orelik (19 points, 8 rebounds) and Popovic (13 points, 7 rebounds) stood out for the winners.

The match



The match was ambiguous at the start, with Kastritis starting with the five of Bohorides, Carr, Bloombergs, De Souza, Galinat and Aris having four different scorers for his 9-7 lead. Thessalonians then went without a basket for three minutes, allowing Lietkambelis to go on an 11-0 run to take an 18-9 lead before Aris found a rhythm, cutting it to 18-15. The Lithuanians again increased the difference in their favor to +8 (23-15), before Sanogo scored his first basket for 23-20 of the first period.

The second quarter started with Toliopoulos reaching 7 personal points, reducing to 23-22, while Sanogo with two consecutive baskets he put Aris in front (26-25). However, at that point Kastritis’ team blocked offensively again, going scoreless for 4 minutes and with Lietkampelis to go ahead with 31-26. THE Bloombergs landed clumsily after a sports foul by Orelik and twisted the ankle of his left foot, leaving the floor in a limp, while Toliopoulos and Souza tied at 36-36, before the home team went on a short 7-0 run in their favor 43-36 at halftime.

The third period began with Sirvindis to score for three, making it 50-41, before Galinat with his five consecutive points, brought Aris within “breathing distance” (51-49). Lietkampelis again raised the difference in her favor to +8 (60-52), with Aris returning again and approaching having as his protagonist Toliopouloswho had an amazing performance, reaching 19 personal points.

The fourth and decisive period began with several Aris players having problems with their personal fouls (Souza, Bohorides and Harel each had 4) and with Kastritis’ team not finding a basket for 3.5 minutes, giving the right to the hosts to take a double-digit lead for the first time in the match (69-59). Lietkambelis even led with 80-66, with the game now completely out of the hands of Aris, who were defeated in the final 84-74.

The quarters: 23-20, 43-36, 61-59, 84-74

The match statistics