{"id":59378,"date":"2025-08-11T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59378\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:43:10","slug":"lithuania-routs-georgia-in-jonas-valanciunas-summer-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59378\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania routs Georgia in Jonas Valanciunas&#8217; summer debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    2025-08-10T22:45:31+00:00<br \/>\n    2025-08-10T22:45:31+00:00<br \/>\n    2025-08-10T22:46:42+00:00.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"author__avatar hide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/author\/anstroggilakis\/?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754894588_455_50264240cd8298326974210e55ac3535\"  class=\"avatar avatar-46 photo\" height=\"46\" width=\"46\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author__name visually-hidden\" itemprop=\"name\">Antonis Stroggylakis<\/p>\n<p>      10\/Aug\/25 22:45<\/p>\n<p>      Eurohoops.net<\/p>\n<p>          <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n              <img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/logo-header.png\"\/><br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/author\/?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Antonis Stroggylakis      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a8f76c90-jonas-valanciunas-reacts-lithuania-world-cup-fiba.jpg\" class=\"featured-image wp-stateless-item\" alt=\"jonas-valanciunas-lithuania\"   data-image-size=\"largepost\" data-stateless-media-bucket=\"images.eurohoops.net\" data-stateless-media-name=\"2023\/09\/a8f76c90-jonas-valanciunas-reacts-lithuania-world-cup-fiba.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The powerful defense of Lithuania led the way against Georgia<\/p>\n<p>By Eurohoops team\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/eurobasket\/1856111\/lithuania-routs-georgia-in-jonas-valanciunas-summer-debut\/mailto:info@eurohoops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithuania routed Georgia 77 \u2013 54 in a friendly game that took place in Kaunas.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Valanciunas (11 points, six rebounds) in his summer debut with the Lithuanian national team. He was the only player in double figures in a balanced performance from Rimas Kurtinaitis\u2019 players<\/p>\n<p>Rokas Jokubaitis notched nine points, six rebounds and six assists.\u00a0 Eimantas Bendzius scored eight points.<\/p>\n<p>Sandro Mamukelashvili led Georgia with 15 points. The team was without star forward Tornike Shengelia.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania built a double-digit advantage, 40 \u2013 29, at halftime and then extended the lead to 49 \u2013 31. Georgia made a comeback attempted and approached by six points in the final period but a rally brought from the hosts them up 62 \u2013 47 with five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025-08-10T22:45:31+00:00 2025-08-10T22:45:31+00:00 2025-08-10T22:46:42+00:00. 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