Cold start and with a lot of punishment

The Galicians led the whole game and more than deserved UCAM a win that eventually became a big scoreboard due to the last laziness

When a team like Breogán, who also shared moments of greatness (and final weakness) with UCAM last year, with whom they traveled to the Copa del Rey and with whom they died on the edge of the ‘play-off’, visit your home , that match is marked in red. Especially now that the season is already well advanced and the goals that help define the first weeks better. But matchday 1 counts too, and UCAM didn’t just miss one of those wins no one wants to miss when you welcome a rival into your home. In addition, he lost up to fourteen points in the final difference, while there was never a two-figure deficit in the first 38:30 minutes of the game. And with six minutes to go, Sito Alonso’s team fell just one more.

In a competition where every point counts, the final discouragement UCAM faced in the final minutes of the match is one that is difficult to understand. It is true that when he was only one point behind his rival, he answered with a partial 0-7. And that two triples from Sergi García, followed by the two timeouts from Sito Alonso, froze a Palace for most of the game that was too cold. And that fourteen points do not reflect the difference between the two teams on the floor, but are simply punishment for the sin of apathy.

Trice (14), McFadden (10), Anderson (3), Radovic (6) and Diop (5) -starting quintet- Davis (11), Klavzar (0), Luther (0), Bellas (5), Pustovyi ( 9), Sakho (1) and Jelinek (6).

Hollatz (10), Bamforth (17), Momirov (0), Lukovic (4) and Happ (19) -starting quintet- García (12), Kasibabu, Nenadic (11), Brajkovic (2), Quintela (4), Arteaga (0) and Nakic (5).

So there is a lot of work to do for Sito Alonso and his ‘staff’ to win the automatisms that this team, at least on this day number one, did not have. And there is little time. Tomorrow the competition continues with a trip to Zaragoza, one of the teams pointing to revelation. Last time of these were UCAM and Breogán. And, from revelation, to template revolution. UCAM has eight new faces on its team and that’s a lot of pieces that fit together. But last night, on the parquet floor of the Palacio de los Deportes, ten of the Lugo team’s players were not wearing light blue.

With Happ a big scare among the boards, who with a double-double of 19 points, 11 rebounds and a PIR of 33 brought out the colors of the highest inside game in the history of the Murcian team, UCAM was standing all along. match behind Breogan. match, which covered every overtake attempt. The cold start (2-11, minute 4) only led to timid reactions, in what became the tone of the game. One team commanded and developed a game with clear ideas, and another that was choppy, the ones that hit Trice… and Trice. So much for the count. Anderson, the star signing of the summer, barely made it into the game. Luther, shy for fear of being wrong. Pustovyi and Diop, with a lack of understanding with their partners.

Of the newbies, and with the exception of Trice, the only one in the double-digit rating of the team, Sakho is the only one to get a pass from his debut. Organized on offense and reaching all over the defense, his second quarter entry was the most difficult obstacle Happ faced and, with him, his entire team (and he stopped playing). The good defense allowed for faster attacks and Davis, who arrived ‘in extremis’ due to bureaucratic problems for an express trip to the United States, managed to find his place. But the triples of former university student Bamforth did not let the Murcians come back (34-39, half time).

The UCAM has never managed to get rid of that close-up sense of being a spark, of its particular ‘big bang’, which left it a game that didn’t pan out and left more than one face of conditions in the property. But it just didn’t happen. Breogán advanced many more arguments to lead the party he was interested in.

With Trice and Davis on the field together, Sito sought to revolutionize a game that, after being possessed for a long time, would become Galician. Intensity, risk and speed. A 7-2 run to start the fourth quarter seemed to show the formula was correct, and the palace roared louder than it had done all night. But with 58-59 on the scoreboard, a break came that was of little consequence to those who were paddling almost desperately. A foul that Nenadic, who played rogues, tried to control with two shots was deliberated for a few minutes by the umpires to decide that was not the case. And Mrsic, dissatisfied with the decision, asked for a review. Not only were more injury minutes added, but Breogán was awarded two shots.

UCAM emerged from that chaos that so interested them in taking part in a match that the Galician team seemed to sleep until Garcia’s triples felt like a knife. The match slipped and UCAM conceded defeat and didn’t fight for a tighter ‘basket average’. Bad game and worse final attitude of the players of Sito Alonso in his presentation to his fans.

Source: La Verdad

David

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