By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Lietkabelis played with fire but wasn’t burn on the road against MZT. The Lithuanians got the 87-80 win and also locked the ticket to Top16 with a 4-2 record in Group A.
Gintaras Leonavicius with 19 points led a balanced offense as the guests controled the game for three quarters, have a double digits lead in their favor after the second quarter in which the partial score was 25-12. At half time they led by 14 points (46-32) and by 13 (62-49) at the start of the last quarter.
MZT tried to get back into the game with Stefan Sinovec and Daniel Clark scoring 20 points each, they cut the lead of Lietkabelis to four points (84-80) with 22 seconds left, but it was too late for something more.