2011-12Regular SeasonRound 5
December 12, 2011 CET: 18:10
Local time: 19:10 SIEMENS ARENA
Tyrese Rice - Lietuvos Rytas (photo bc.lrytas.lt)Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius downed Krka Novo Mesto 82-72 on Monday to clinch first place in Group F. Rytas remains perfect with a 5-0. Krka slipped to 3-2, but has already qualified to the Last 16 round. Tyrese Rice led the winners with 16 points and 7 assists, Renaldas Seibutis scored 14, Mindaugas Katelynas netted 10 and Lawrence Roberts pulled down 10 boards and posted 9 points. Jimmy Baxter was the main contributor for Novo Mesto with 14 points, Smiljan Pavic drilled 13 with 9 boards and Mustafa Abdul Hamid netted 11. Krka Novo Mesto took a 23-32 margin after a 7-0 run early in the second quarter, but a 24-8 run that bridged the last two quarter gave a 73-61 advantage to Rytas at the midway point of the last quarter and the hosts controlled the game till the final buzzer.

Jonas Valanciunas opened the scoring for the hosts, copied by Baxter for the hosts. After the score was tied four times, a 6-0 Krka run gave the visitors a 10-16 margin on a huge dunk by Baxter after a steal. Rice cut the difference to 15-16 from mid range, before newcomer Abdul Hamid scored a pull up jumper that fixed the final 15-18 for Novo Mesto after 10 minutes. Simon Petrov posted 5 consecutive points for a 15-23 advantage to the visitors. Aleksandar Rasic from downtown made it 23-25, but another 7-0 quick run capped by Zoran Dragic with a layup gave again a 23-32 margin to the Slovenian champs. It was Rasic again from long distance to climb within 28-32. Jure Balazic nailed another shot from downtown for 30-37, before Roberts and Baxter exchanged layups and Rice drilled free throws to fix the 35-40 score for Novo Mesto at halftime.

A Pavic layup and Valancinuas dunk made it 37-42, then Dragic found easy points in the open court for 37-46. After Edo Muric scored from downtown, Predrag Samardziski kept Rytas on fire in the paint and Rice cut the deficit to 47-51 from beyond the arc midway through the quarter. Rice again tied from the foul line at 53-53 and then Roberts gave a slim margin to his side. Steponas Babrauskas excited the home crowd with a deep three pointer for the lead at 57-55, Pavic tied the score thanks to an assist from Matej Rojc, but again the Rytas sharpshooter hit another for 60-57. A layup bagged by Dragic with just a second on the game clock made it 60-59 at the end of the third quarter. Rasic hit another triple and Katelynas scored underneath to extendthe cushion to 65-59. Petrov answered in the open court, while back-to-back baskets by Katelynas gave a double digit margin to the home team, 73-61. Abdul Hamid kept in charge the visiting team from long distance, Baxter scored a layup and Samardziski answered from the foul line, while Pavic scored again to be 79-68. A Seibutis three pointer and Marko Djurkovic layup fixed the final 82-72 for Lietuvos Rytas.
Monday, December 12, 2011
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Referees: NURAN, RUSTU; CHEBYSHEV, SERGIY; REITER, MORITZ
Attendance: 4100 (Tentative)
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Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 DAMBRAUSKAS, PAULIUS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
5 BABRAUSKAS, STEPONAS 15:03 8 1/1 2/5   1 2 3     1     2 1 6
6 RICE, TYRESE 29:34 16 3/4 1/6 7/8   1 1 7 3 2     3 6 21
7 ROBERTS, LAWRENCE 25:17 9 3/6 0/1 3/5 3 7 10 1 2 5 1 1 3 5 13
10 SEIBUTIS, RENALDAS 33:17 14 2/5 2/4 4/4 1 2 3 4 1       2 2 17
12 DILYS, VILMANTAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
14 SAMARDZISKI, PREDRAG 22:24 8 2/2   4/6 1 1 2 1 1 1     3 4 10
15 KATELYNAS, MINDAUGAS 15:52 10 4/7 0/1 2/2 1 2 3 1 1 1     2 2 10
17 VALANCIUNAS, JONAS 16:27 6 3/3     1 2 3 1   2 1   2 2 9
19 RASIC, ALEKSANDAR 29:35 9   3/6   2 2 4 2 1 2     2   9
21 JOMANTAS, ARTURAS 12:31 2 1/2 0/1     1 1     1     1 1  
32 REDIKAS, DOVYDAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team           2 3 5               5
Totals 200:00 82 19/30 8/24 20/25 12 23 35 17 9 15 2 1 20 23 100
        63.3% 33.3% 80%
Head coach: DZIKIC, ALEKSANDAR
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
KRKA Novo Mesto
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 DJURKOVIC, MARKO 16:48 4 2/4 0/1   1 2 3     1     3 2 2
6 ROJC, MATEJ 8:09 4     4/4       1           4 9
7 PETROV, SIMON 10:24 7 2/2 1/2                   2   4
8 MURIC, EDO 14:22 5 1/1 1/1   2   2 3   2     5   3
9 PAVIC, SMILJAN 33:28 13 5/13   3/4 6 3 9   1 1 1 1 2 5 16
10 ABDUL-HAMID, MUSTAFA 26:06 11 4/7 1/2     3 3 1 1 5   1 2 2 6
11 DRAGIC, ZORAN 30:43 8 4/10 0/3     3 3   2 1     1 4 6
13 KRIVEC, BOJAN 7:11 3   1/2         1   1     1   1
14 BRATOZ, DOMEN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15 BALAZIC, JURE 19:03 3   1/1     1 1   1 1     4    
22 BAXTER, JIMMY 33:46 14 7/10 0/4 0/2 2 3 5 2 3 3     3 3 12
Team           2 1 3     1         2
Totals 200:00 72 25/47 5/16 7/10 13 16 29 8 8 16 1 2 23 20 61
        53.2% 31.3% 70%
Head coach: SEKULIC, ALEKSANDER

Head Coaches

DZIKIC, ALEKSANDAR
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius
"We played two totally different halves. We turned the ball over 7 times in the first 10 minutes: I cannot be happy for that. But after the break I finally found the best roster to use and we finally overcame their efforts. Someone had called us the favorites but you cannot underestimate a team which also joins the Last 16 stage. It is hard for me to hide my emotions because Krka is my ex-team.”
SEKULIC, ALEKSANDER
KRKA Novo Mesto
"I congratulate Lietuvos Rytas, they were the better team tonight. Of course, one could say they are the better team overall. We came to Vilnius without our star big guy, Jerome James, who is off to the NBA, and Lietuvos Rytas likes to use their front court a lot, so we had to use zone defense. Unluckily for us, our opponents finally found a way to beat it. They were dominant in the paint in the second half and used that to run away.”

Players

SEIBUTIS, RENALDAS
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius
"It was not hard to understand during the first 20 minutes that our opponent is a serious one. We had prepared for this game thoroughly, still the start was sluggish somehow. I think we were too relaxed: we conceded too many easy points. Everything changed in the second half, though, when we finally fixed things on the defensive end.”
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