The 23-year-old has been on fire on offense in recent weeks.
Who's hot: Deividas Sirvydis, 7bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys
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As the regular season heads towards the final stretch, teams will be counting on their best performers to carry them as they make one last push. That applies for almost every squad across the BKT EuroCup, as the race for the playoffs, home-court advantage and a top-two finish are all on teams’ minds.
One of those teams fighting for a playoff berth is 7bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys (5-8). The player it will be hoping can help it carry towards the postseason is Deividas Sirvydis, who has been one of the hottest – while arguably the most accurate – shooter in the entire competition in recent weeks.
Sirvydis has been on fire for Lietkabelis
There are three players who scored more than 100 points over the last five rounds and Sirvydis is one of them. His 103 points, or 20.6 ppg., are third over that span, but what really stands out is his consistency.
Since Round 9, the 23-year-old guard has not scored fewer than 16 points in any of those games. He has, in fact, done it twice: both in Rounds 11 and 12, respectively, in a loss at Aris Midea Thessaloniki and a home win over ratiopharm Ulm.
In each of the other three games, Sirvydis has topped the 20-point mark. He scored 29 in a Round 9 loss against U-BT Cluj Napoca and had 21 apiece in games against Buducnost VOLI Podgorica and Dolomiti Energia Trento.
Making the most of his shots
What Sirvydis has also managed to do is score a lot but with exceptional shooting percentages.
Over the last five games, the Lietkabelis guard is a fantastic 20-for-28 (71.4%) on two-pointers and 14-for-26 (53.8%) from three-point land.
With such production over the last five rounds, Sirvydis has climbed into third place in scoring for the season (17.3 ppg.), while improving his shooting accuracy to 64.8% on twos and 42.6% on threes this campaign.
His 34 field goals made are the fourth most over the last five games, but his shooting accuracy is far and beyond everybody else.
Sirvyids is the only player who has made at least 18 field goals over this five-game span, while he’s managed to shoot at above 60.0% accuracy in that time, all while making better than 50.0% of his shots from behind the arc.
Lietkabelis has a tough task on its hands when it hosts Dreamland Gran Canaria on Wednesday, so the Lithuanian team will need Sirvydis to continue playing at the same level he has been since late November. With Lietkabelis trying to register its sixth win of the season and position itself better in the playoff race, expect Sirvydis’s fingerprints to be all over this game.