Laboral Kutxa Vitoria vs. Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius - Game

2013-14Regular SeasonRound 8

December 06, 2013 CET: 20:30

Local time: 20:30 FERNANDO BUESA ARENA

Laboral Kutxa lands in Top 16 after dropping L. Rytas

Laboral Kutxa Vitoria rallied in the second half behind its defense and two big runs to defeat Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius 79-63 and clinch a Top 16 berth on Friday night. Laboral’s third consecutive win brings the team’s record to 5-3 for sole possession of third place in Group D. Rytas dropped to 1-7 and has been mathematically eliminated from the Top 16 race. Rytas finished the second quarter with a 2-14 spurt to take a 30-38 halftime lead, but the hosts started the second half with a 15-2 run and never trailed again. Laboral pulled away with a 14-0 spurt that bridged the third and fourth quarters for a 63-49 lead. Lamont Hamilton paced the winners with 17 points, Fernando San Emeterio netted 12, and Milko VBjelica scored 11 points for Laboral. Darius Songaila had 14 points for Rytas, while newcomer to the team Zabian Dowdell scored 10 points in defeat.

First quarter: Slim lead goes back and forth

Juan Palacios opened scoring with a fastbreak dunk, and as Rytas forced 4 turnovers in the first three minutes, Renaldas Seibutis scored on a breakaway to make it 0-6. Leo Mainoldi nailed a three-pointer to open Laboral's account, before a put-back from San Emeterio and a dunk from Tibor Pleiss made it 7-6. After a put-back from Songaila for the visitors, Pleiss scored a nifty reverse layup as the teams continued trading leads. Steponas Barbrauskas and Dowdell sank back-to-back jumpers for Rytas, before Pleiss made an alley-oop dunk, and Walter Hodge hit a jumper, 13-12. Keeping the basket-for-basket trend, Songaila hit a tough fadeaway shot, before Hamilton scored inside. Rytas took another lead with a basket-plus-free throw from Andreas Glyniadakis, but Hamilton answered with a triple just before the buzzer for an 18-17 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Second quarter: Rytas goes in front with 2-14 run

A three-pointer from Milenko Tepic started things for Rytas in the second quarter, but San Emeterio sank one from downtown on the other end, too. San Emeterio added a driving layup, but Martynas Gecevicius sank a long jumper for 23-24. A pair of free throws from Hamilton and a baseline jumper from Bjelica helped the hosts to their biggest lead, 28-24. Rytas answered with a 0-10 run. Songaila scored inside, and Gecevicius, Songaila and Dowdell all scored easy fastbreak layups. After a Laboral timeout, Thomas Huertel sank a jumper, but Palacios scored inside and Tepic made a baseline floater giving the visitors 30-38 halftime lead.

Third quarter: Laboral opens with 15-2 charge

Mainoldi hit back-to-back triples from the corner to start the third quarter just the way the hosts hoped. Songaila had a put-back for Rytas, but David Jelinek buried a baseline jumper and a three-pointer to make it 41-40. San Emeterio extended the run with a put-back basket that also had him reach the 1,000-point milestone for his Euroleague career, and Huertel followed with a fastbreak layup. The hosts mixed man-to-man with zone defense, and Rytas had trouble finding its offense, burning a pair of timeouts in the process. Songaila hit a long jumper to snap a 15-2 run, before trading buckets inside with Hamilton. Laboral’s big man also had a big dunk to make it 49-44, but Rytas countered with defensive aggressiveness and pressure, and making 5 of 6 free throws to tie the score. But Hodge answered with 4 from the foul line in the final 30 seconds of the quarter for a 53-49 lead after 30 minutes.

Fourth quarter: Hosts pull away with 10-0 run

On the first possession of the fourth quarter, Bjelica made a no-look basket-plus-foul, and added a layup for a 58-49 cushion. Hodge added a cost-to-coast layup, before assisting Kelati on a wide-open triple and a 14-point lead. Dowdell snapped a 10-0 run with a layup and later added a jumper, but Laboral remained in control. Gecevicius scored from downtown, cutting it to 67-56 midway through the fourth, but Laboral’s defense did not allow much more than that, while a dunk from Bjelica and a long range shot from Hamilton extended it to 74-56, sealing the deal. Before the game’s end, Palacios scored for the visitors. Hamilton had an alley-oop dunk plus free throw, and Huertel drained a baseline jumper. Stevan Jelovac beat the buzzer with a layup to round out the scoring.

Thomas Kelati - Laboral Kutxa Vitoria - EB13

Friday, December 6, 2013

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Referees: PUKL,SASA; ZAMOJSKI, JAKUB; MANTYLA, PETRI

Attendance: 10264 (Tentative)

By Quarter	1	2	3	4
Laboral Kutxa Vitoria	18	12	23	26
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius	17	21	11	14

End of Quarter	1	2	3	4
Laboral Kutxa Vitoria	18	30	53	79
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius	17	38	49	63

Laboral Kutxa Vitoria

							Rebounds						Blocks		Fouls
#	Player	Min	Pts	2FG	3FG	FT	O	D	T	As	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	PIR
4	MAINOLDI, LEO	17:34	9	0/1	3/7			1	1	1					2	1	5
7	VAN OOSTRUM, DEVON	2:08				0/2										1	-1
8	HANGA, ADAM	10:25								1	1	1	1		3		-1
11	HAMILTON, LAMONT	17:40	17	4/6	2/2	3/4	3	2	5	1	2	1	1		1	6	27
12	DIOP, ILIMANE	1:52
15	HODGE, WALTER	20:12	8	2/3	0/2	4/4		2	2	3		1			1	4	12
19	SAN EMETERIO, FERNANDO	24:09	12	3/3	1/2	3/4	2	3	5	2		2			4	2	13
21	PLEISS, TIBOR	20:24	8	3/6		2/2		4	4	1			1		2	1	10
22	HEURTEL, THOMAS	21:27	6	3/6				3	3	3	1	6					4
24	KELATI, THOMAS	14:47	3	0/1	1/2			3	3	1		1			2	1	3
25	JELINEK, DAVID	26:56	5	1/3	1/4		2		2	1		2			1	3	3
51	BJELICA, MILKO	22:26	11	4/6	0/1	3/3		2	2	2			1	1	3	2	11
	Team						2	3	5			1					4
	Totals	200:00	79	20/35	8/20	15/19	9	23	32	16	4	15	4	1	19	21	90
				57.1%	40%	78.9%

Head coach: SCARIOLO, SERGIO

Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating

Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius

							Rebounds						Blocks		Fouls
#	Player	Min	Pts	2FG	3FG	FT	O	D	T	As	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	PIR
4	TEPIC, MILENKO	23:00	7	1/4	1/3	2/2	1	1	2		2					2	8
5	BABRAUSKAS, STEPONAS	18:50	3	1/1	0/2	1/2		4	4		1				1	1	5
7	SESKUS, EDVINAS	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9	PALACIOS, JUAN	22:05	6	3/8	0/2		3	2	5	1	3			1	4		3
10	SEIBUTIS, RENALDAS	27:00	6	1/6	0/1	4/4		1	1	3	3	2		1	1	4	7
11	GLYNIADAKIS, ANDREAS	9:19	5	1/2		3/3		1	1				1		3	2	5
13	GECEVICIUS, MARTYNAS	30:27	7	2/2	1/5			2	2	1		1			1		4
14	ORELIK, GEDIMINAS	3:47	3			3/4										2	4
15	DOWDELL, ZABIAN	17:00	10	4/6		2/2		2	2	2	2	2		1	2	3	12
16	LYDEKA, TAUTVYDAS	13:58						2	2			3			5	1	-5
25	SONGAILA, DARIUS	22:04	14	7/12			2		2	1		1		1	3	2	9
31	JELOVAC, STEVAN	12:30	2	1/1	0/2			2	2		1	1			1	2	3
	Team						1	2	3			3
	Totals	200:00	63	21/42	2/15	15/17	7	19	26	8	12	13	1	4	21	19	55
				50%	13.3%	88.2%

Head coach: BAUERMANN, DIRK

Head Coaches

SCARIOLO, SERGIO

Laboral Kutxa Vitoria

"I think it’s a day to celebrate and feel satisfied to have achieved the first goal of the season. Many showed doubts about us over the summer, and especially after a tough start of the season, with so many problems and injuries. I think this is very well deserved and I want to congratulate my players because we made it two games before the end of the regular season. We managed to overcome all the difficulties, especially as a team, and that’s the most important thing. Lietuvos is a team with size and weight, and they closed the passing lines to our inside players and prevented us from finding the lanes to penetrate in the first half. We found our way in the second half, we put more pressure on defense, took some risks to force turnovers and recover the ball. I want to stress the effort of some players like Jelinek, who did a great defensive job on Gececivicus, Hamilton, who performed pretty well after a long period sidelined, San Emeterio, who played with a fever and showed great commitment, and Adam Hanga, who is back in action after a long injury and didn’t commit mistakes."

BAUERMANN, DIRK

Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius

"First of all I want to congratulate Vitoria and Scariolo tonight. We played really well in the first half, but they came back more aggressive after the break, they got back into the game through a tougher defense, they played more aggressive and intense. We were not able to score against their pressure, we struggled in offense and they escaped with a large difference in the third period. We know it’s very difficult when you are behind, here. We played a good first half and we have to build on that."

Players

HANGA, ADAM

Laboral Kutxa Vitoria

"I feel quite happy tonight. It’s my first Euroleague game, my first this season after the injury, and we won and made it to the Top 16, so I feel great. I’m still lacking some rhythm, but I feel better every day, every game. I want to play a little bit more game by game, but I feel comfortable and good. Each day is special for me at this moment, because of that. It was a very important achievement for the club, for the team and for the fans, but it was also important for me, as I will be able to play more Euroleague games this season."

GLYNIADAKIS, ANDREAS

Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius

"We controlled the game very well in the beginning of the game. We got an 8-9 point lead and our defense was the key, but after the break we didn’t make up, we let them score some three pointers in the first minutes of the third quarter and they recovered the lead very soon. We couldn’t play the same defense in the second half and that cost us the game. We are going to face these games like we have played all games so far, fighting until the last minute to show the kind of team we are. "

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