After another poor game at home last week, the Azulón team need to give their season a morale boost
The Buesa Arena in Vitoria is not one of those ACB fields that are considered public property because of the comfort it brings to rivals. Quite the opposite. To tell the truth, none compete in the top domestic competition in Europe, where winning away from home is priced at perpetual inflation. Baskonia doesn’t get a hand easily, although UCAM already knows what it’s like to win there, including with Sito Alonso, when the Murcians got away with it on the fourth day of the 2020-21 season, buoyed by the surprise performance of David DiLeo , author of six triples.
Achievements, that of the American power forward, that do not enter the conventional script when a humble team visits an eternal Euroleague as the team from Vitoria is at this point. Sparks that fly off the programmed film and that change predetermined plans. And that’s what Sito’s team needs this afternoon to secure a victory that would put his team in a mood for rain in May, returning from intermission last week due to questionable ‘FIBA windows’ to play their third game of the season at the Palace against Obradoiro, comfortable with UCAM’s lack of defensive intensity, one that leads their coach to the head. “I’m not happy with the regular intensity we’re putting into the games. I’d like to see us be a lot more aggressive, and it’s something that isn’t happening,” Alonso admitted to media during the pre-match press conference. even with the Galicians’ seven triples in the first eleven minutes of the game.
With Andronikashvili signed, Trice fully recovered from his head injury last week, Anderson picking up streaks and going out of Davis loss for a while, UCAM have taken the days before today’s clash to reset. “We haven’t thought much about Baskonia,” admitted Sito, whose priority is to get a recognizable image of his team.
Not without the best UCAM will be able to play an even game from 5 p.m. against one of the most fit teams in Europe, one of the most “fun to watch, with a lot of attacking ability and who does not give up” a shot in the first seconds », Sito analyzed a team that, since the creation and adaptation of Pierriá Henry, one of the players who has aroused the most enthusiasm in Vitoria in recent years and who is now back, has all his troops. And Henry’s is just the addition to a gunpowder-heavy offside, where Markus Howard and Darius Thompson wreak havoc.
Inside, the new test for UCAM’s trio of greats, made up of Pustovyi, Diop and Sakho, will face the quality of Costello, the strength of Enoch and the inches of Kotsar in a constant struggle to achieve regularity. At UCAM, the big novelty is the inclusion of Rati Andronikashvili, the 21-year-old Georgian who has signed to cover the loss of Jordan Davis, but with a high chance of extending his contract until the end of this season and who knows if longer , given his status as a locally formed player. On the other hand, with a high fever, Radovic did not travel to Vitoria with the rest of the team.
Source: La Verdad
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