{"id":486244,"date":"2026-03-02T19:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486244"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:52:33","slug":"lithuania-strike-back-take-control-early-and-beat-iceland-99-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lithuania-strike-back-take-control-early-and-beat-iceland-99-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania strike back, take control early and beat Iceland 99-82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1694\" data-end=\"2098\">Lithuania bounced back from Friday\u2019s defeat by beating Iceland <strong data-start=\"1804\" data-end=\"1813\">99-82<\/strong>: <strong data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"1845\">Ignas Brazdeikis scored 27<\/strong> with 5 rebounds and 3 assists, while <strong data-start=\"1883\" data-end=\"1923\">Kristinn Palsson led Iceland with 23<\/strong>. Lithuania also got <strong data-start=\"1944\" data-end=\"1966\">Ignas Sargiunas 18<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1971\" data-end=\"1993\">Azuolas Tubelis 11<\/strong>, while Iceland had <strong data-start=\"2013\" data-end=\"2037\">Elvar Fridriksson 15<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"2043\" data-end=\"2056\">8 assists<\/strong> after his heroics in the previous game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2100\" data-end=\"2256\">Lithuania seized control immediately and never let Iceland back into the game, maintaining a comfortable cushion throughout and closing out the 99-82 win.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2258\" data-end=\"2475\">In the standings picture, the result means Luca Banchi\u2019s Italy cannot secure mathematical qualification for the next phase tonight. However, with a win over Great Britain, Italy would draw level at the <strong data-start=\"2460\" data-end=\"2472\">top spot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Friday\u2019s loss, Lithuania respond immediately and lead from the start to level the storyline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486243,"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":[253,271,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iceland","category-lithuania","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Brazdeikis.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486244","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=486244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486244"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486244"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486244"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}