{"id":446151,"date":"2025-06-12T21:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=446151"},"modified":"2025-06-12T21:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T19:12:39","slug":"rytas-shocks-zalgiris-in-double-ot-takes-game-1-of-lkl-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rytas-shocks-zalgiris-in-double-ot-takes-game-1-of-lkl-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rytas shocks Zalgiris in double OT, takes Game 1 of LKL Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1481\"><strong data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1293\">Rytas Vilnius<\/strong> made a statement in Game 1 of the <strong data-start=\"1328\" data-end=\"1350\">Betsafe LKL Finals<\/strong>, overcoming a squandered 15-point lead to defeat <strong data-start=\"1400\" data-end=\"1419\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong> 97-89 <strong data-start=\"1426\" data-end=\"1448\">in double overtime<\/strong> and steal homecourt advantage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1483\" data-end=\"1822\"><strong data-start=\"1483\" data-end=\"1502\">Azuolas Tubelis<\/strong> led with 21 points (7\/9 FG), while <strong data-start=\"1538\" data-end=\"1549\">RJ Cole<\/strong> added 19 after halftime and <strong data-start=\"1578\" data-end=\"1597\">Ignas Sargiunas<\/strong> hit four threes, including the clutch bucket to tie the game in the second OT. Despite a game-high 31 points from <strong data-start=\"1712\" data-end=\"1733\">Sylvain Francisco<\/strong> and 21 from <strong data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1766\">Ignas Brazdeikis<\/strong>, Trinchieri\u2019s Zalgiris fell short in their own arena.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1824\" data-end=\"1973\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">With the series now at 1-0 for Rytas, Game 2 in Kaunas becomes critical for the hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vilnius erases collapse and steals homecourt with clutch performances from Tubelis, Cole, and Sargiunas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":446150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-446151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lithuania"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/GtQ8VNUXcAAmxEF.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446151"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=446151"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=446151"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=446151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}