Artūras Gudaitis

Artūras Gudaitis

Artūras Gudaitis (left) as a Žalgiris member
No. 7 – Žalgiris Kaunas
Position Center
League Lithuanian Basketball League
Euroleague
Personal information
Born June 19, 1993
Klaipėda, Lithuania
Nationality Lithuanian
Listed height 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight 254 lb (115 kg)
Career information
Pro career 2010–present
Career history
2010–2011 LCC Klaipėda
2011–2012 Klaipėdos Nafta-Universitetas
2012–2013 BC Žalgiris-2
2013–present Žalgiris Kaunas
Career highlights and awards

Artūras Gudaitis (born 19 June 1993) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player who plays for Žalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LBL). Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he plays at the center position.

Early career

Before starting his professional career, Gudaitis played in the RKL with the LCC Klaipėda for one season. Next two seasons he played in NKL, and on his last season with BC Žalgiris-2 he won bronze medal. Gudaitis was respectively nominated as a most promising young player of the league on the same year.

Professional career

On 6 August 2013, Gudaitis signed professional contract with BC Žalgiris for two years and was brought into the main Žalgiris roster. Whilst suffering from the knee injury in the first half of the season he had his breakthrough game against PBC Lokomotiv-Kuban in Euroleague tournament, scoring 14 points with 6 rebounds.[1] Gudaitis vastly improved during regular season, and was called an x-factor of victorious LKL semi-final series against BC Lietuvos Rytas.[2]

International career

Gudaitis represented Lithuania at the U–18 youth tournament in Poland, 2011. His team took 5th place in the tournament, where Gudaitis scored 11,3 points, grabbed 6,2 rebounds and had 1,4 blocks per game.[3]

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

Note: The Euroleague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season, he also played in domestic competition.

Euroleague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2013–14 Žalgiris 7 1 10.3 .600 .000 .636 2.6 .6 .4 .7 4.4 6.9
2013–14 Žalgiris 20 4 15.4 .506 .400 .618 4.0 .3 .2 .9 6.5 7.2
Career 27 5 14.1 .524 .222 .620 3.6 .3 .2 .9 6.0 7.1

References

  1. ↑ http://www.basketnews.lt/news-71731-varzovus-stebines-gudaitis-nesijauciu-padares-kazka-ypatingo.html#.UzSpDqiSya8
  2. ↑ http://www.krepsinis.net/rekomenduojame/lkl-grandu-serijos-ivertinimai-kas-pradziugino-nustebino-o-kas-nuvyle/240016
  3. ↑ http://www.basketnews.lt/news-41188-gudaitis-dziugu-kad-is-tokios-situacijos-pavyko-isspausti-maksimuma.html#.UzSqMqiSya8

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