Lithuania pulled away late to maintain Slovenia winless within the remaining part with a 100-84 victory of their classification match on Thursday on the 2023 FIBA World Cup on the Mall of Asia Arena.
Lithuania will now slug it out within the battle for fifth place towards Latvia, which earlier defeated Italy.
Slovenia, in the meantime, will look to finish its marketing campaign on a excessive observe towards Italy on Saturday for the seventh place conflict.
Jonas Valanciunas starred as soon as once more with a double-double of 24 factors and 12 rebounds laced with one steal and one block whereas Ignas Brazdeikis chipped in 15 markers and 4 assists.
Momentum was all on the facet of Lithuania heading to the second half earlier than back-to-back triples from Aleksej Nikolic and Mike Tobey minimize Slovenia’s deficit to simply 4, 55-51.
But Lithuania was fast to reply, unleashing a 13-6 run for a 68-57 cushion earlier than ending the third up by 12, 75-63, with Valanciunas and Mindaugus Kuzminskas main the best way.
That lead went as much as 21 within the fourth when Deividas Sirvydis buried a triple, 81-65, as star guard Luka Doncic struggled to attach within the second half.
Doncic and Slovenia tried to mount a last-gasp rally with the Dallas Mavericks standout firing a protracted bomb however with solely 34 seconds left, they ran out of steam as Lithuania cruised to the win.
—Bea Micaller/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
