Our Fenerbahçe Beko Men’s Basketball Team is the guest of Zalgiris Kaunas in the 22nd match of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague 2023-24 regular season. The match, which will be played at Zalgirio Arena on Friday, January 19 (today) at 21.00 CET, will be broadcast live by S Sport. The referee trio of Ilija Belosevic (Serbia), Joseph Bissang (France), Thomas Bissuel (Belgium) will referee the match.
Latest situation in Fenerbahçe Beko
Our team last competed in a double match week in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague. In the first match of the week, our team beat Partizan, which it hosted on Tuesday, January 9, with a score of 91-76. Tyler Dorsey scored 24 points, Marko Guduric scored 15 points, and Nate Sestina scored 14 points for Fenerbahçe Beko, which made a very important comeback in the match where it fell behind by 17 points at one point. Sarunas Jasikevicius’ students defeated German representative Bayern Munich 98-91 after an overtime on Thursday, January 11. For Fenerbahçe Beko, Scottie Wilbekin scored 30 points and Dyshawn Pierre produced 15 points and 10 rebounds. With these results, our team finished the week in fifth place with 13 wins in 21 matches.
Fenerbahçe Beko was the guest of Çağdaş Bodrum Spor in the Turkish Insurance Basketball Super League for the last time on Sunday, January 14th. Our team beat its opponent 92-93 and got its 13th victory in its 16th match. In our team, Melih Mahmutoğlu scored 27 points and Scottie Wilbekin scored 21 points.
Metecan Birsen and Nigel Hayes-Davis, who are still undergoing treatment at Fenerbahçe Beko, as well as Tarık Biberovic and Nate Sestina, who are injured, will not be able to play in this match.
About Zalgiris Kaunas:
Zalgiris, one of the first teams that come to mind in European basketball, started its basketball activities in 1944. Zalgiris, which achieved its first Soviet League championship in just three years, repeated this success four more times in the following period.
Zalgiris, which had its golden period with names such as Arvydas Sabonis, Sergejus Jovaisa, Rimas Kurtinaitis and Valdemaras Chomicius and had the chance to win the European championship twice, lost to Barcelona in the Saporta Cup final in 1984 and to Cibona Zagreb with Drazen Petrovic in the EuroLeague final in 1986. lost.
Zalgiris Kaunas, which became the strongest voice of this country in basketball after Lithuania declared its independence, won nine Lithuanian League championships in a row. During this period, the 35-point performance of Saulius Stombergas in the final against Adecco Milan stood out for the Kaunas representative, who won the Saporta Cup in 1998.
Just one year after the Saporta Cup success, Zalgiris achieved a success that surprised the whole of Europe in 1999, this time reaching the EuroLeague championship. Led by Jonas Kazlauskas and with names such as Tyus Edney, Saulius Stombergas, Anthony Bowie, Eurelijus Zukauskas and Jiri Zidek, Zalgiris achieved the most important victory in the club’s history.
Zalgiris, which had a good season in the EuroLeague in 2004 but lost the critical match against Maccabi in the Top 16, continued to appear in the EuroLeague in the following years.
The new golden era at Zalgiris Kaunas started with the appointment of coach Sarunas Jasikevicius. Zalgiris, which reached the Playoffs in 2017-18 and made the Final Four by passing Olympiakos in this round, managed to beat CSKA Moscow in the third place match, despite losing to Fenerbahçe in the semi-finals, with names such as Brandon Davies, Paulius Jankunas and Kevin Pangos.
Zalgiris Kaunas, which managed to enter the Playoffs by winning its last six matches in 2018-2019, could not avoid being eliminated 3-1 by Fenerbahçe Beko in this round. The Kaunas representative won the championship in its own league this season, achieving this success for the ninth time in a row.
In the 2019-20 season, which was interrupted due to the pandemic, Zalgiris was declared the champion of the Lithuanian League and was in the Playoff race with 12 wins and 16 losses in the EuroLeague.
The northern representative achieved 17 wins in the 2020-21 season, but failed to make the Playoffs. Kaunas reached a happy ending in the Lithuanian League and Lithuanian Cup.
In the 2021-22 season, Kaunas remained in last place in the EuroLeague with 8 wins and 20 defeats, and lost the Lithuanian League final against Rytas.
Our opponent finished the first round in seventh place in the 2022-23 season with 19 wins and 15 defeats, but could not avoid being eliminated by Barcelona 3-0 in the play-offs.
Zalgiris Kaunas has 24 Lithuanian League, 1 EuroLeague and 1 Saporta Cup championships in its museum.
Latest situation in Zalgiris Kaunas:
The squad of Zalgiris Kaunas, coached by Andrea Trinchieri, includes the following names:
Guardlar: Keenan Evans, Lukas Lekavicius, Dovydas Giedraitis, Tomas Dimsa, Edmond Sumner, Neds Montvila
Forvetler: Edgaras Ulanov, Arnas Butkevicius, Rolands Smits, Brady Manek, Dovydas Butka
Pivotlar: Kevarrius Hayes, Laurynas Birutis, Danielius Lavrinovicius
Koç: Kazys Maksvytis
Zalgiris Kaunas had seven wins in 21 matches played in the EuroLeague this season. Our opponent got one win in the last couple of match weeks. While our opponent beat Valencia Basket 79-84 on Tuesday, January 9th, they lost 91-73 away to Barcelona on Friday, January 12th.
Our opponent is the leader in the Lithuanian League with 14 wins after 16 weeks. Trinchieri’s students last beat Siauliali, which they hosted on Sunday, January 14, with a score of 73-87. In this match, Laurynas Birutis scored 19 points and Kevarrius Hayes scored 12 points.
Team Statistics – Offense (Zalgiris Kaunas – Fenerbahçe Beko):
Points Scored: 78.5 – 84.3
Number 2: 51.8% – 55.9%
Number 3: 40.4% – 38.8%
Free throw: 79.8% – 80.0%
Rebounds: 31.8 – 33.5
Assists: 15.0 – 18.1
Steals: 5.8 – 5.4
Block: 1.9 – 2.4
Team Statistics – Defense (Zalgiris Kaunas – Fenerbahçe Beko):
Points Defeated: 81.6 – 81.3
Number 2: %53.7 – %53.6
Number 3: %37.6 – %34.7
Free throw: 77.6% – 77.4%
Rebounds: 33.1 – 33.8
Assists: 17.7 – 16.8
Steals: 6.8 – 5.9
Block: 3.0 – 1.7
Statistical Leaders (Zalgiris Kaunas – Fenerbahçe Beko):
Sayı: Keenan Evans 16.3 – Nigel Hayes-Davis 13.4
Rebound: Roland Smits 5.0 – Dyshawn Pierre 5.1
Asist: Keenan Evans 3.8 – Nick Calathes 4.5
Top goal: Keenan Evans 1.4 – Marko Guduric 1.0
Efficiency: Keenan Evans 17.4 – Nigel Hayes-Davis 15.9
Past Matches:
Fenerbahçe Beko faced its opponent 25 times in the current format of the EuroLeague and won 17 times in these matches.
In the first half of the 2023-24 season, Fenerbahçe Beko won the match played at Ülker Sports and Event Hall on December 20, 2023, 80-78. Tyler Dorsey scored 19 points, Scottie Wilbekin scored 17 points and Johnathan Motley scored 16 points in our team. On the Zalgiris front, Keenan Evans scored 19 points, Rolands Smits 16 and Laurynas Birutis 14 points.
2023-24 Fenerbahçe Beko 80-78 Zalgiris Kaunas
2022-23 Fenerbahçe Beko 87-79 Zalgiris Kaunas
2022-23 Zalgiris Kaunas 86-66 Fenerbahçe Beko
2021-22 Fenerbahçe Beko 73-67 Zalgiris Kaunas
2021-22 Zalgiris Kaunas 86-75 Fenerbahçe Beko
2020-21 Fenerbahçe Beko 84-61 Zalgiris Kaunas
2020-21 Zalgiris Kaunas 99-62 Fenerbahçe Beko
2019-20 Fenerbahçe Beko 76-79 Zalgiris Kaunas
2018-19 Zalgiris Kaunas 82-99 Fenerbahçe Beko
2018-19 Zalgiris Kaunas 57-66 Fenerbahçe Beko
2018-19 Fenerbahçe Beko 80-82 Zalgiris Kaunas
2018-19 Fenerbahçe Beko 76-43 Zalgiris Kaunas
2018-19 Fenerbahçe Beko 78-61 Zalgiris Kaunas
2018-19 Zalgiris Kaunas 75-82 Fenerbahçe Beko
2017-18 Zalgiris Kaunas 67-76 Fenerbahçe Doğuş
2017-18 Zalgiris Kaunas 78-85 Fenerbahçe Doğuş
2017-18 Fenerbahçe Doğuş 89-90 Zalgiris Kaunas
2016-17 Zalgiris Kaunas 67 – 76 Fenerbahçe
2016-17 Fenerbahçe 82 – 68 Zalgiris Kaunas
2010-11 Zalgiris Kaunas 85 – 84 Fenerbahçe Ülker
2010-11 Fenerbahçe Ülker 80 – 72 Zalgiris Kaunas
2009-10 Fenerbahçe Ülker 68 – 76 Zalgiris Kaunas
2009-10 Zalgiris Kaunas 78 – 84 Fenerbahçe Ülker
2006-07 Zalgiris Kaunas 70 – 83 Fenerbahçe Ülker
2006-07 Fenerbahçe Ülker 84 – 75 Zalgiris Kaunas
2024-01-19 10:32:01
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