He “suicided” at the end and now Prometheus needs a miracle for the first time

Despite leading 73-69 at 1’51”, Prometheus eventually lost 75-77 to Ritas in Vilnius for the fourth game of the BCL’s second group and with a 2-2 record needs two wins in its last as many games group and the one with +9 against Dijon, which now with 4-0 has the first reason for the direct qualification to the “16”, with the winners having the same hopes for the first place.

Ilias Papatheodorou’s players were consistently losing by double digits in the first half, but they managed to reduce the lead with a run in the fourth period, but in the end they accepted individual scores 8-2 to lose.

The leaders of the Lithuanians were the Normantas, Cole with 16 and Maciulis with 12 points. For the Greek team, Kofi stood out with 19 and Etsenike with 15 points.

The match

Prometheus led 5-0 and 7-2 at the start of the match thanks to the accuracy of the foreign players of Ilias Papathedorou. Ritas with a 5-0 run dropped to 6-7 and 8-9 and Radzevicius gave her the lead. Normantas with a personal 4-0 run made it 14-10 for the Lithuanians and Goram made it 18-12. The three-pointers of the Patrinas kept them in the match and reduced the difference and Kourouks brought +1, but the 5-0 run of the home team ended at 27-23 in the first period.

Cole brought the score to 30-23, but a 4-0 run by the Patrinas was reduced to 30-27, with the correct choices of the guests’ foreign players. The Lithuanian regionals kept them at +6 to +8 and Radzevicius made it 41-32. The foreigners of Prometheus reduced to 41-36, but Matsioulis with an “outburst” and a personal 6-0 streak brought the score to 47-36 and Velitska completed the score to 51-38 at the end of the half.

Reynolds was down 52-45 at the start of the third period, but there Normantas took matters into his own hands and went on a 4-0 run to make it 56-45. Kuruks with personal actions kept Prometheus from the perimeter and reduced it to 58-51 and, despite the efforts of Etsenike, Velicka finished the quarter at 62-55.

Normanda’s 3-pointer made it 65-55 at the start of the fourth period, but the amazing defense of Elias Papatheodorou’s players led to mistakes by Rita’s players and Etsenike and Cowan helped in a 10-0 run to tie the game. Macioulis made it 67-65, Reynolds 67-68 and the lead changed hands until Hale’s 5-0 made it 69-73 at 1:51.

Cole reduced it to 71-73 at 1’33” and Normantas took advantage of the back-and-forth of the Patrinas for 73-73 at 1’13”. Etsenike and Cole brought the score to 75-75, Patrinoi lost the attack and Cole’s layup made it 77-75 at 2”. Goram pinned Etsenike in the last attack of the match and Prometheus fell to 2-2.

The quarters: 27-23, 51-38, 62-55, 77-75

The statistics