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Lithuania – Lithuania NKL round 8 best performance: Margiris Normantas
- Updated: October 31, 2016
MargirisNormantas Guard Margiris Normantas (193-G-96) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Perlas-MRU, receiving a Eurobasket.com NKL Player of the Week award for round 8.The 20-year old player was the main contributor (32 points, six rebounds and six assists) to his team’s victory, helping them to beat Zalgiris II (#9, 3-5) 90-78. Perlas-MRU maintains the 3rd position in Lithuania NKL. They would have been even better if they did not have these two lost games earlier in Regular Season. Perlas-MRU will need more victories to improve their 6-2 record. In the team’s last game Normantas had a remarkable 60.0% from 2-point range. It’s his second year at Perlas-MRU and it’s hard to imagine this team without him. Margiris Normantas has solid league stats. He is in league’s top in points (2nd best: 19.4ppg) and averages impressive 2.8spg and 47.1% from behind 3-point line.The second best player in last round’s games was young Laurynas Birutis (213-C/F-97) of Zalgiris II. Birutis had a very good evening with 22 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists. Bad luck as Zalgiris II lost that game 78-90 to the higher-ranked Perlas-MRU (#3, …
