UCAM will start the ‘top 16’ of the Champions League tomorrow and Sunday against Baskonia the second round of the Endesa League
The play-in resolved by quick court against Pinar Karsiyaka saved what would have been a disappointment, leaving Europe only behind in January in what would be the return to the Champions League three years later. Not the fact that he lost to the Turkish team, a favorite who has come a long way and who, as he demonstrated against UCAM, has a quality that is inversely related to the chemistry of his dressing room. Match point saved, it’s time for the ‘top 16’ ahead of the quarter-finals, for the ‘Final Four’.
This new group stage starts tomorrow with UCAM’s visit to the current champions, Tenerife (the other rivals are Bilbao and Darüssafaka) who already won the Champions League in the first season, 2016-17, and will be presented to the appointment after entry as seed in the Copa del Rey. Finding the sand in the first of those two challenges in January that would mark the season with that ‘top 16’, here it was the lime for Sito Alonso’s men.
The Murcians have been banned from the KO tournament for one win, but that counts as two, as they dragged a devastating first round ‘basket average’, one on which Sito’s set their short-term goals: to be able to compete in any game to compete regardless of the field and rival, making the palace a fortress and finding more solid rotations.
And it is that the difference in points will also be a differentiating factor for the “playoff”, the ultimate goal of UCAM, and for the one broken by the individual, that is, we stand them directly towards those involved. The other teams that finished with eight wins in the first round beat UCAM: Bilbao (99-81), Breogán (70-84) and Obradoiro (80-84). On Sunday, when Baskonia is received at the Palacio, a second round will begin in which it will be the key to recover the best version of Trice, Jordan and Pustovyi.
Source: La Verdad
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