Olympic Games 2021 Qualifiers Poland vs Lithuania 7/3/2021 Picks

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Team Lithuania are facing Team Poland at the Zalgirio Arena in Kaunas, Lithuania on Saturday, July 3, at 12:30 ET in the second semifinal of this 2021 Olympic Game Qualifier Group. Team Lithuania finished the Group Stage of the tournament undefeated and were first in Group A. Team Poland qualified as the second-best team of Group B.

Team Lithuania finished the Group Stage of the 2021 Olympic Game Qualifiers with a perfect 2-0 record and were placed first in Group A. They have back-to-back wins and in their last game they defeated Team Korea with a 57-96 score. They played excellent defense, holding their opponents into just 36.8% shooting from the field and 22.2% from behind the arc. They shot with 63.3% from inside the arc and were led in scoring by Jonas Valanciunas with 15 points, adding a game-high 13 rebounds. Rokas Jokubaitis and Marius Grigonis added 13 points apiece.

Valanciunas leads the team both in scoring with 17.5 ppg and in rebounding with 12 per game. Grigonis adds 10.5 ppg, 3 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.

Team Lithuania has the second-best offense in this Group Phase with 86 ppg, while allowing 61 ppg defensively. They have the second-best field goal percentage with 50.4% but the second-worse 3-point percentage with 29.8%. They are first in rebounding with 47 per game and second-best in assists made with 22.5 per game.

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Olympic Games 2021 Qualifiers Poland vs Lithuania Predictions 7/3/2021

Team Poland finished the Group Stage of the 2021 Olympic Game Qualifiers with a 1-1 record and were placed second in Group B. In their previous game they got defeated by Team Slovenia with a 77-112 score. They shot better from downtown that from the field (43.3% to 41.9%) and were led in scoring by Mateusz Ponitka with 16 points and a team-high 7 rebounds. Aleksander Roman Balcerowski and A.J. Slaughter added 11 points apiece.

Ponitka leads the team both in scoring with 19 ppg and in rebounding with 5 per game. Slaughter adds 13.5 ppg and a team-high 5.5 assists per game.

Team Poland have the third-best offense in the Group with 80 ppg and allow 88 ppg defensively. They have the third-best field goal percentage with 45.5% and the second-best 3-point percentage with 42.9%. They are third-best in assists made with 21 per game.

This will be the seventh matchup between those two squads in any competition, with Lithuania having a 5-1 lead so far. Their most recent meetings have been back in the 2019 World Cup, where Lithuania won twice with a 61-79 score and with 75-55. Lithuania are the absolute favorite and they are playing at home, so expect them to beat the odds and win by more than 16 points today.

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