Our team lost 16:21 to the basketball players of Chongming (China) in the final and took second place in the tournament. In the semi-final and final, our team played three, because Marijus Užupis was injured in the quarter-final match.
M. Kumpys scored 9 points and added 2 rebounds in the final, while Olympic bronze medalist Evaldas Džiaugys scored 7. Another player who won a bronze medal in Paris, Šarūnas Vingelis, did not score points in the final this time.
Center Cameron Forte was on a rampage for the Chinese team, scoring 9 points, making all three field goals and 8 rebounds. ZhiChao Xiang scored 7 points for the Chinese team, Zengjie Wang scored 3, Karl Lasmanis added 2.
The start of the match is tenacious. The Chongming team used their height advantage and had a 3-point advantage (4:7) after three minutes of the match.
After that, our team continued to have a hard time stopping the opponents’ tall players, and in the middle of the match they had a minimal deficit (10:11) after the frenzy of Modesto Kumpios and the point of Evaldos Dziaugis. After that, the same M. Kumpys hit a point with a foul and 4.5 minutes before the end of the final, he changed the result in his favor (13:12).
Later, the Chinese responded with two points, and M. Kumpys pushed in an impressive layup and leveled the result again (14:14). After that, Chongming scored two doubles and got closer to 21 points (14:18).
Finally, during the remaining time, our team failed to return to the match and the Chinese team closed the match with a victorious two points (16:21).
Another Lithuanian team “Mantinga” from Marijampolė took fourth place in the same tournament. The team from Marijampolė also suffered a defeat in the semi-finals against the trio of winners of the stage “Chongming”.
2024-09-01 13:22:37