Lithuania national basketball team at 2016 Olympic Games

This page tracks the progress of the Lithuania men's national basketball team participating in 2016 Summer Olympics.

Main roster On June 8, the twenty candidates list was published, who were invited to the training camp. The list surprisingly did not included last year European vice-champion Lukas Lekavičius. On July 16, the final Olympic roster was announced, however two of the last candidates Artūras Milaknis and Vaidas Kariniauskas had to remain with the national team till the last friendly match in case if someone will get injured. Though, Milaknis left the team quickly. Following Ulanovas injury, Kariniauskas qualified into the final roster.

Candidates that did not make it to the final team # Position Player Year of birth Club Reason Date announced 31 Guard/Forward Rokas Giedraitis 1990 BC Šiauliai Coaching decision July 5 Forward/Center Donatas Motiejūnas 1990 Houston Rockets Contract negotiations July 14 18 Guard Mindaugas Girdžiūnas 1989 Neptūnas Klaipėda Coaching decision July 14 31 Guard/Forward Deividas Gailius 1988 Lietuvos rytas Vilnius 21 Guard/Forward Artūras Milaknis 1986 UNICS Kazan Coaching decision July 16 93 Guard Vaidas Kariniauskas 1993 Kymi 92 Forward Edgaras Ulanovas 1992 Žalgiris Kaunas Injury, replaced by Kariniauskas July 31

Depth chart

Preparation matches

2016 Summer Olympics

Group phase Lithuania was drawn into the Group B.

All times are local (UTC−3).

Quarter-final

References