{"id":1534,"date":"2014-06-27T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2014-06-28T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T22:22:24","slug":"patvanka-top-project-44-win-m45-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/2014\/06\/27\/patvanka-top-project-44-win-m45-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Patvanka Top Project-44, Win M45 Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian side <b>Patvanka<\/b> became the M45 champions of the ESBA Promo Championship in Liepaja after defeating <strong>Project-44<\/strong> <strong>90-73<\/strong> in the deciding game on Friday at the Liepaja Olympic Center.<\/p>\n<p>After a very positive start of the tournament, <b>Project-44 <\/b>lost the last two games and finished in second place, while <b>Patvanka<\/b>, representing Kaunas,<b> <\/b>managed to stay undefeated in five games.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian team led in the early going and held an 18-14 lead seven minutes into the game, but it didn\u2019t take long for the green-and-white <b>Patvanka<\/b> to close the gap.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the second period 27-18, the Lithuanians broke away and comfortably closed out the game.<\/p>\n<p><b>Irmunas Juskys <\/b>had a team-high 26 points, <b>Andrius<\/b> <b>Grabazys <\/b>collected 21 points, while <b>Darius Lukminas<\/b> and <strong>Robertas\u00a0<\/strong><b>Butkus <\/b>finished the game with 12 points apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic bronze-medalist <b>Lukminas <\/b>was presented with the MVP award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sergey Ivanov<\/strong> led <b>Project-44 <\/b>with 31 points, while <strong>Georgy\u00a0<\/strong><b>Martyshin <\/b>was the only other player in double figures with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Day 7 | M40 and M45 Finals\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_dcNbMGX0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian side Patvanka became the M45 champions of the ESBA Promo Championship in Liepaja after defeating Project-44 90-73 in the deciding game on Friday at the Liepaja Olympic Center. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}