Without Davis or Trice, Sito Alonso’s team receives Obradoiro after the disaster in Madrid and their European triumph against Falco
You never choose when the break comes because of the “FIBA windows,” but depending on where you are, you welcome it or curse it. As it goes and according to the players he says goodbye to in order to fulfill the obligations with his selections. And the latter was of course not the most opportune for UCAM. Coinciding with the departure of Niels Giffey, Sito Alonso’s team retired just after playing one of their best games of the season, beating Joventut (88-76) in a match where they always went ahead. One, moreover, that he owed to his fans, who had seen him stumble at home against Breogán and Granada in the first two days.
In all haste I brake. Not many players were present for the international call this time, but McFadden, the most inspired of this early season, was pushed to the max with Georgia. On his return he could only play four minutes against Real Madrid, which dominated UCAM from start to finish (93-57) and had already scored the win in the first quarter. But on top of that, and as if it wasn’t enough to endure a downpour that would make Sito feel “humiliated”, Davis and Trice, two of the players most used by the coach, fell during the first practice of the week.
Davis, the one in charge of always defending himself against the best rival out there, will be out of the game for about a month and a half. Trice, who suffered a head injury, has been examined by doctors every day of the week, a day spent almost entirely at home as a precaution, not even attending his teammates’ game against Falco in person. of the fourth match day of the Champions League last Wednesday.
Game resolved by a UCAM who drew strength from weakness and who had two dominators in play in Anderson and Pustovyi (17 points each) who were joined in the final play by young Klavzar to condemn the clash and scored the final nine points for his team (81-74). But after the game, Sito was not completely satisfied. In addition to the encrypted message he launched for hinting – “there are many people who are hiding” – that he released, the coach made it clear that soon, just after today’s game against Obradoiro, UCAM would sign “the most important of this week “.
And so it will be. Today UCAM plays its last game of the season against the team of Compostela in the current line-up, in which Davis and Luther remain injured. The Murcians will try to add a win to those that, whether fighting for a Copa del Rey, a play-off or no man’s land, seem necessary. And it is that Obradoiro, traditionally a team that is bad at UCAM in Murcia, is a rival that is always described as direct. Whether fighting above or slightly below, the Galicians are close, despite currently having just two wins in eight games after their promising pre-season.
On his team stands out Dragan Bender, the eternal 25-year-old Croatian prospect who does not want to remain a broken toy after surprising the world at Maccabi as a teenager and finishing No. 4 in the NBA Draft in 2016. In just one game, he has been among the Dropped 16 points and arrives in Murcia after his record of 23 (in just 20 minutes) from the previous day.
Source: La Verdad
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