He started the quarter-final round of the Japanese Championship with a loss Dainius Adomaitis trained and Artūrs Gudaitis represented by the Tokyo “Alvark” team.
Lithuanian club after two overtimes 80:81 (18:18, 25:11, 10:20, 14:18, 13:14) lost to the Riukiu Islands “Golden Kings” basketball players and trailed 0:1 in the series with two wins.
Ryuichi Kishimoto’s accurate three-pointer at the end of the second overtime resulted in the victory for the Ryukyu Islands team – 81:80. Although Alvark still had 9 seconds to attack, he was unable to attack.
In 28 minutes, A. Gudaitis scored 7 points (3/8 doubles, 1/4 penalties), rebounded 5 balls, made 2 assists, made 2 errors and a foul and collected 2 utility points.
Allen Durham had 18 points (7 rebounds), Jack Cooley (8 rebounds) and Keita Imamura had 17 each for the winners.
Ryan Rossiter had 24 points (19 rebounds) for the loss, while Toews added 18 (7/16 shooting).
“Long break”: the work of Lithuanian agents, Lithuanians raising the value of LKL, LKF’s ability to “buy” a high-level player, the longevity of basketball players, leaking information from clubs and the possibilities of 3×3 national teams
