«Astana» lost to the Lithuanian «CBet» in the third friendly game

16.09.2021, 22:30    Views: 212
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Basketball club «Astana» held the third friendly match at the training camp in Lithuania. In this game, Kazakh squad was playing against the «CBet» team from the city of Jonava.

The club from the city of Jonava has a rather rich history — it was officially founded back in 1969, but they have no major achievements. They have been playing in the second Lithuanian basketball league for the last couple of decades. And if in the 2000s they became bronze medalists twice and won silver three times, then in the last ten years they have not achieved great success. But last season the team won in the second league and will debut in the main Lithuanian Championship in the coming season. This season the Lithuanian team was named “CBet” — after the name of the sponsor. “Astana” previously met with the “CBet” team, but it was a completely different team — from the city of Prienai, which this season is called “Labas GAZ”, and with which our team has already met in the framework of the current training camp. But “Astana” will play with the team of Jonava for the first time in history.

The start of the game remained with Darko Russo's players and after five minutes of the game they were in the lead by 6 points, and until the end of the first quarter the capital's advantage was 8 points — 14:22. In the second quarter, the game at first acquired a more equal character and the Lithuanian team was able to close the gap, though so far by a couple of points. But five minutes before the big break were completely left to the Lithuanian basketball players. The team from Jonava during this time was able to turn a 6-point gap  into 7-point advantage and finished the second period with a score of 43:36. For the first half of the third game segment, “Astana” reduced the gap to 4 points, but they couldn't improve their positions before the final period — 65:61. Five minutes before the end of the match, the intrigue was very intense, the difference between the teams was only 2 points in favor of the opponents from Lithuania, but the ending performed by “Astana” was not entirely successful. As a result, the yellow-turquoise ones lost the victory in this match with the score — 87:82.

Our team has noticeably outplayed rivals under the glass, having made 16 more rebounds. In addition, the Kazakhs made 9 more steals. But this did not help to win and the reason was, perhaps, not the best implementation of the shots. There is also a large number of fouls, and as a result, the Lithuanians have 9 more penalty points earned from the line. In personal statistics, Jaylen Barford became the most productive player of the match, gaining 39 points and 5 rebounds. Anthony Hickey also scored — 24 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 7 steals. Skylar Spencer has updated his score with 6 points and 11 rebounds.

The statistical report of the match is available here.
Schedule and results of pre-season friendly matches of PBC «Astana»:
  • September 9 — «Juventus», Utena — 58:91
  • September 11 — «Labas GAS», Prienai — 62:62
  • September 17 — «CBet», Jonava — 87:82
  • September 18 — «VEF», Riga

Also, on September 13 and 14, our guys took part in the pre-season tournament for the Raimundo Sarguno Cup in the city of Panevezys, becoming silver medalists. In the semifinals, they defeated the Latvian team «Ogre» — 77:66, and in the decisive match they lost to the hosts of the tournament, the Lietkabelis team — 82:71.


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