On a night when 7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys was without its second-best scorer and its best scorer suffered a tough shooting night, it was going to need some others to step up. Kristian Kullamae and Gyorgy Goloman did exactly that to lead Lietkabelis’s record-scoring night.
The hosts set a club record with 60 first-half points and another with 104 points for the game in a 6-point victory over Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana on Wednesday night.
Kullamae had his finest night in the competition with 24 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, which are all personal bests. He previous top marks were 14 points and 4 rebounds; He had 14 points and 3 rebounds in the second half alone on Wednesday.
The first player to heat up was Goloman, who scored 11 points in the first quarter and reached 16 by halftime before finishing with 23, which was more than four times his season average of 5.6 points per game entering Round 6.
Those two players not only paced the Lietkabelis attack, but also led the team in +/-. Kullamae had a +16 in 25 minutes and Goloman was +10 in 32 minutes.
Jamel Morris came into the game ranked fourth in the EuroCup with 18.4 points per game, but was limited to 8 points against Cedevita. He shot 1-for3 on two-pointers and 1-for5 on threes. Morris also dished 6 assists and committed 4 turnovers. The team’s No. 2 scorer, Zeljko Sakic (14.3 ppg.) remained sidelined due to injury.
"I don’t think that we will have again a win like this with that rhythm, with this many points,” Lietkabelis head coach Nenad Canak said after the game. But if Kullamae and Goloman remain hot and Morris joins them? Who knows?
