R. Jokubaitis, who played the third most productive match of the Euroleague season, was not enough for “Barcelona” to win against ASVEL

by times news cr

2024-04-13 17:22:52

The Catalan club lost 72:76 (18:24, 24:14, 15:19, 15:19) against ASVEL in an inconclusive match.

3 seconds before the end of the match, R. Jokubaitis still had a chance to steal the victory for the Catalan team, but the Lithuanian’s shot was not accurate. Paris Lee closed the match with precise penalties.

R. Jokubaitis was the most productive player of the Barcelona team, scoring 12 points (3/4 doubles, 1/2 triples, 3/5 penalties). The Lithuanian added 4 provoked fouls, 2 rebounds and 3 errors and finished the match with 11 utility points.

Such burst of points by R. Jokubaitis is the third best in this Euroleague season. Before that, the player from Maze had scored 14 points (against “Anadolu Efes”) and twice scored 13 each (against ALBA and “Partizan”).

Only James Nnaji, who scored 9 points (3/4 doubles, 3/7 penalties), added 9 rebounds and collected 17 utility points, played more usefully than the Lithuanian in Barcelona.

Apart from Ricky Rubio (24.5 min.) and Jabari Parker (20 min.), all other leaders of the Catalan club (Tomas Satoransky, Jan Vesely and Nikola Kalinicius) spent 16 minutes or less on the field. In addition, the Argentinian Nicolsas Laprovittola was not even registered for this meeting.

Former Žalgiris player Joffrey Lauvergne led ASVEL to victory. In 17 minutes, the Frenchman scored 20 points (8/11 doubles, 1/2 triples, 1/1 penalty), recovered 5 balls.

Barcelona will start the playoffs from the 4th position and will meet the 5th place Olympiakos Piraeus team.

Meanwhile, ASVEL was second to last in the Euroleague.

ASVEL: Joffrey Lauvergne 20, Youssoupha Fall 15 (7/10 doubles, 1/2 points, 8 rebounds, 20 points), Paris Lee 10 (2/5 triples, 4/5 points). , 8 res. transfer, 20 user points).

„Barcelona“: Rokas Jokubaitis 12, James Nnaji, Janas Vesely (2/4 doubles, 1/2 triples, 2/2 penalties, 3 rebounds, 3 assists) and Oriolas Pauli (3/4 doubles, 1/4 triples, 0/1 penalty) for 9 each, Dario Brizuela (2/4 doubles, 1/3 triples) and Jabari Parker (3/5 doubles, 0/3 triples, 1/1 penalty ., 4 reps.) after 7.

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2024-04-13 17:22:52

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