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The Lithuanians showed what their greatest strength is in the preparations for the qualifications. It's definitely their offense. They basically play run and gun basketball, they have really fast players, even the centers run the counter attacks easily. That's how they scored 86 points against Sweden, 95 and 81 against China, and 82 against the very defensively oriented Latvia. Today, they're playing against the Macedonians whose quality isn't on that level. They're a very humble national team that completely depends on the naturalized players Givens and Paris, but only one of them can play in the official matches. Even with both Americans in the team, they lost against the really weak Portugal in the preparations, to Bulgaria with 12 points difference and then 31 points difference, while they conceded 79 and 83 points. The imbalance between the naturalized and national players is pretty big, Lithuania are better in every segment and the guests can hardly keep up, if at all, with the home team's fast rhythm here.