Faltering Partizan (11-11) will aim to protect its home court against a Zalgiris team (8-14) that showed its potential by thrashing Fenerbahce last week.
Game Notes: Partizan vs. Zalgiris



Coach Zeljko Obradovic’s team has lost three of the last four, but all those losses were on the road and Partizan boasts an 8-2 record at home. The Serbian team also took a road triumph, 85-93, in Kaunas last month, with backcourt dynamo PJ Dozier delivering a typical all-around performance with 16 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists. Zalgiris lost that game despite a stellar 33 points from Keenan Evans, who had 21 points and 7 assists in last week’s win over Fenerbahce and will play a key role again this week.
- Partizan has won its last four head-to-head games against Zalgiris, including an 85-93 win in Kaunas in Round 14.
- Last season in Belgrade, Partizan beat Zalgiris 87-76 behind 26 points from Kevin Punter, who made a career-high 7 two-point shots that night.
- Zalgiris head coach Andrea Trinchieri was in charge of the Partizan bench for two seasons, from 2018 to 2020. He led the team to a pair of Serbian Cup triumphs. Ognjen Jaramaz and Uros Trifunovic played under Trinchieri during that spell.
- Jaramaz also played the last two season under Trinchieri at FC Bayern Munich.
- Partizan forward Zach LeDay spent the 2019-20 season with Zalgiris. He was a teammate of current Zalgiris players Edgaras Ulanovas and Lukas Lekavicius.
- Zalgirs guard Keenan Evans and Partizan swingman James Nunnally were teammates at Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv during the 2021-22 season.
- Zalgiris point guard Keenan Evans scored a career-high 33 points in Round 14 loss.
- Keenan Evans dished a career-high 9 assists in a road loss against Partizan last season.
- Zalgiris forward Arnas Butkevicius posted his career high in steals with 4 in a road loss against Partizan in October 2022.
- Nunnally earned MVP of the Round honors when he set his career-high PIR of 38 by scoring a career-best 32 points and sinking a career-best 6 three-pointers playing for Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv against Zalgiris in February 2022.



































































































