The team led by Sito Alonso is aiming for a third win of the week tonight, with renewed hopes of playing in the Copa del Rey
The fall in Strasbourg was quite annoying for the UCAM. Just around the corner, in January, the Endesa League was preparing a month of games to which a play-in was added for access to the top 16 against none other than Pinar Karsiyaka, one of the favorites for the title. And the pigeon with which he returned from the last break in the ‘FIBA windows’ also complicated the situation in the Endesa League: to start the season on the wrong foot, defeats were added for failures that made the ‘basket average’ become the rudest’, always decisive for the last tickets of the Copa del Rey.
But Sito Alonso’s team seems to like the toughest yet. The basketball year kicked off last Tuesday with a win in a game for fans to score the first goal of the best-of-three tie against the Turks and on Reyes’ morning one of their best games came to fruition to score the year to date. then Tenerife is co-leader with 21 points difference in a volcanic second part. A victory, this one against the aurinegros, which confirms the improvement of a team that seems to have found the key to impose its personality on the court, and which, in the last games played in the heat of its audience, starts from the palace a to make a fortress that guarantees a show: they beat Gran Canaria with authority and almost a hundred (99-85), they again stayed very close to three figures against Karsiyaka (97-92) and in the second half against Tenerife it rained to 56 points (85-64).
These last two wins against the Canary teams are additionally bracketed in the calendar in which UCAM entered after beating Betis on the eleventh day (76-72) at home with unconvincing thrills. That day the then bottom club was almost back from 20 points ahead of the university, having just been beaten by Real Madrid and Baskonia with a puncture in Murcia against Obradoiro in between. With the cup further and further away, there were five games in a row against teams from the top eight.
One of them, Bilbao, today’s rival. But unlike UCAM, Ponsarnau’s arrow, which also coincides with Sito’s as they enter the ‘top 16’, is currently pointing down and they are out of the cup. The Biscayans are a team of streaks: they won their first three league games, lost the next four, won three more in one fell swoop and now they’ve lost three of the last four. The exact opposite of UCAM, which has won three of the past four days.
Unfavorable dynamics that see Bilbao and Murcia sharing the same balance of seven wins for seven losses, with those from the Miribilla district one place ahead. With UCAM’s newfound ambition for the cup, this means a win today serves to overtake another contender for the Badalona event. And that’s exactly what a UCAM needs, even with a bad basket average (-35), to bend the country to its will.
Source: La Verdad
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