Gailītis: We won with the game in defense and under the baskets – Basketball – Apollo.lv – Sports



[ad_1]

"VEF Rīga" beat Saratov's "Avtodor" Sunday at 89:78, continuing the fight for the excluded tournament.

"In the first half, we attacked successfully, but lost in the fight for rebounds.After a long break, we improved our game." It was possible to show a good match by team, which does not make any difference. did not prevent several players from achieving high scores in individual statistics, however, the key to our success was defense and the fight against the base. "The tournament organizers cite Gailīsa.

The Latvian Championship Champion has already won 13 consecutive wins in all tournaments, while in the Uniform League, he has a run of five successes that have brought him closer to the zone of the excluded tournaments.

In the regular season of the single league, there are still five games left and the fight to rank among the top eight teams, which will result in "play-offs," worsens. Through a series of five successes, the VEF Riga, with a total of eight wins in 21 games (38% success), ranks 10th overall and qualifies for the Exclusion tournament.

But in ninth place is exactly "Avtodor" – he won eight games in 20 games (40%), but in eighth place, the Estonian champion "Kalev" / "Cramo" (nine wins in 20 games or a balance 45%) is in eighth place. In turn, the seventh place is currently "Nizhny Novgorod" (10-8 (56%)).

[ad_2]
Source link