Kristers Zoriks scored 21 points in the game against the Hungarian club “Falco Vulcano”, but the Rigans lost at the end of the match.
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Gints Narogs, “Latvijas Avīze”, JSC “Latvijas Mediji”
“VEF Rīga” basketball players suffered a second loss in the FIBA Champions League in two games, losing to the Hungarian team Sombatheja “Falco Vulcano” with 74:80 in the last quarter of the match.
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Rigans started with 4: 0, then had a good time, but in the second quarter they played to reach +6 (37:31). The same prevalence was in the third quarter (57:51), however, before the last ten minutes of the game with +3 (61:64) there were already guests in the lead.
In the final round of the game, the home team took the lead again, but the Hungarian team did better in the end, celebrating the second victory in the tournament at a very tense end. Kristers Zoriks scored 21 points for the home team, who also had five rebounds and equally effective passes, while Ron Curry stood out with 13 points.
“At the beginning of the game we played very badly in the attack, we allowed our opponents to score a lot of easy points. We continued to improve our performance, we started the third quarter well, but let in easy points, our opponents also hit difficult shots, ”Zoriks was disappointed after the match.
“We played too slowly, several players tried to change the course of the fight, but with five or six basketball players it is too little to be able to win a good opponent,” was also felt in the voice of “VEF Rīga” head coach Jānis Gailītis.
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