- You can find the moments from the game in our photo gallery.
The greens started the game very well playing attractive and enjoyable basketball to take a surprise 11-3 lead after Jonas Maciulis slammed one home over Lamar Odom and Renaldas Seibutis went coast-to-coast after a steal.
The first quarter was probably one of the worst in the team USA history as the pre-game favorites managed to collect only seven points in the opening period. The whole game didn’t kick off until after the halftime when USA started to use full-court pressure, which the Lithuanian guards couldn’t cope with.
One turnover after another allowed USA to gain confidence converting one fast-break after another. The game flipped on its head after Mantas Kalnietis was called for an unsportsmanlike foul and Linas Kleiza got an additional technical one.
Team USA converted all four free-throws also finishing the extra possession with a basket as well to open up an eight point gap.
It was all one-way traffic from then on, as the Americans never looked back and continued pressuring the ball throughout the whole court – Arvydas Eitutavicius lost the ball a couple of times and a few untimely passes were stolen as well. The American lead reached twenty before being cut down to 16 at the final whistle.
Player
MIN
2PM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
REB D-O
REB
AS
ST
TO
BS
PF
RF
PTS
EFF
Mantas Kalnietis
26
2-3
67%1-3
33%0-0
0%1-1
2
3
0
2
1
3
3
7
8
Tomas Delininkaitis
17
0-1
0%1-1
100%2-3
67%5-0
5
0
1
3
0
3
3
5
6
Jonas Mačiulis
17
3-7
43%0-2
0%1-2
50%4-1
5
2
4
5
1
2
1
7
7
Linas Kleiza
24
5-9
56%0-1
0%2-2
100%4-1
5
1
0
2
0
1
2
12
12
Robertas Javtokas
26
5-10
50%0-0
0%0-0
0%5-1
6
0
1
0
1
3
1
10
11
Paulius Jankūnas
18
0-2
0%1-4
25%0-0
0%2-0
2
1
4
2
3
1
0
3
7
Tadas Klimavičius
7
0-1
0%0-0
0%0-0
0%0-0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
-1
Simas Jasaitis
10
0-0
0%0-1
0%0-0
0%1-0
1
0
1
2
0
1
2
0
0
Martynas Pocius
16
2-3
67%0-3
0%3-4
75%2-2
4
2
0
1
0
1
3
7
10
Mindaugas Lukauskis
4
1-1
100%0-0
0%0-0
0%0-0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
Renaldas Seibutis
15
3-4
75%0-2
0%0-0
0%2-0
2
0
1
1
0
2
0
6
4
Martynas Gecevičius
7
1-2
50%0-1
0%0-0
0%1-0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
2
Martynas Andriuškevičius
6
0-1
0%0-0
0%0-0
0%0-0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
-3
Arvydas Eitutavičius
7
0-0
0%0-0
0%0-0
0%0-0
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
0
-3
Team
200
22-44
50%3-18
17%8-11
73%27-8
35
9
12
23
6
20
17
61
62
USA: Kevin Durant 15, Rudy Gay 14, Russell Westbrook 12, Eric Gordon 9, Chauncey Billups 7, Andre Iguodala, Stephen Curry 5, Derrick Rose, Rajon Rondo, Danny Granger, Kevin Love and Lamar Odom 2.
Kestutis Kemzura (head coach of Lithuania): “Our main goal wasn’t winning. We tried to win but only alongside other issues we had at hand. The players showed the character and stuck to the plan which we had prepared before the game – we fought.
It’s hard to keep the intensity with a small rotation and we wanted to get most of our guys involved. We lacked sharpness, made a lot of mistakes and in result committed a lot of turnovers. We have to be more aware and improve the understanding between each other. Team USA punished us for this without hesitating. Our biggest problem is rebounding. We can eliminate this by concentration.”
