Decisive fight for a place in the semi-finals: Lithuania – Puerto Rico (live video broadcast)

The second Olympic 3×3 basketball selection tournament continues on Saturday in Utsunomiya (Japan). In it, the Lithuanian men’s national team also seeks a ticket to Paris (Evaldas Džiaugys, Aurelius Pukelis, Darius Tarvydas and Šarūnas Vingelis).

In the decisive match of Group A, the Lithuanians will start at 10:15 a.m. will play against Puerto Rico. You can watch the live video broadcast Sportas.lt in the portal. Only the winners of these matches will advance to the qualifying semi-finals.

Lithuanians will start Group A on Friday 21:14 defeated Brazil, but in the second round 18:21 did not hold its own against the so-called main competitors, the Dutch.

This qualifying tournament features 8 teams divided into 2 groups of 4. The top 2 teams from each group will advance to the semi-finals, with all playoff matches taking place on Sunday. Only the winners of the selection will win a ticket to the Paris Olympics.

If Lithuanians fail to qualify for the Olympics in Ucunomija, ours will have one more chance on May 16-19. in the tournament to be held in Debrecen (Hungary). 3 tickets will be distributed in the last qualifying tournament.

At the moment, 4 of the 8 participants of the men’s 3×3 basketball tournament at the Paris Olympics are known. According to the ranking, Serbia, the USA and China entered the Olympics, and Latvia won the first qualifying tournament.

Lithuanian basketball players did not qualify for the Tokyo Olympics after losing to Latvians in the selection. It was Latvians who later became Olympic champions.