The UCAM today receives Real Madrid in a packed Palace after losing to Betis with a bang and a failed trip to Turkey
Sito Alonso’s men did not welcome Real Madrid at their best moment of the season. The image presented against Betis last day, especially after the cancellation of their match this week in the Champions League, is one of those that raises doubts. And above all a team that was thought to have been banned in the past, that of an apathetic team, without chemistry and that knows how to recognize itself when it travels far from Murcia and its palace does not force it, not say force it, to the to press nuts.
Because UCAM didn’t lose by 36 points like the last time they met the Whites a few months and a half ago (93-57). But his image in Seville (84-71) was very similar to this: a pitiful staging from which you never get up to drag a feeling of inferiority against the team in front of him for forty minutes. Either this is the leader or a team with three wins in 18 games. Because the problem is with you, and that’s worrying. Among the thousand and one things that a team from the UCAM entity must do well to surprise Real Madrid, Sito Alonso also stressed “teach them that we are not the team that met in the first round.”
That day, UCAM returned from some ‘FIBA windows’ they had gone to, believing they captured the heartbeat of the season, as the last game before the break was the best of the season for the college students so far. one of those who fed the dream of the cup with faith and defeated the host, Joventut (88-76). That cup, which will not feature a Murcian accent, to be played this weekend means that today is the last game of the Endesa League in three weeks, until those of Sito Joventut meet in Badalona.
The break will not be earlier because the restructuring of the Champions League matches has brought forward the confrontation in Murcia between UCAM and Darüssafaka to next Wednesday at 8.30 pm. But there are too many conditions that require Sito Alonso’s men, who demand “a level of brutal intensity”, to give their fans a certain fighting capacity and commitment in another day when a packed house is expected.
The introspection exercise to achieve this began this week in Turkey for UCAM. The university expedition traveled to Istanbul last Sunday, when they traveled from Malaga (he spent the night before there the previous Saturday, after the game in Seville), and on Monday they woke up to the news of the terrible earthquakes of 7,8 and 7 .5 degrees on the Richter scale in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria.
A tragedy that paralyzed the Ottoman country, mourning a death toll that is already around 25,000 and which, when all matches with Turkish teams were canceled, was around 2,500. Without a match in Istanbul, but with a storm of wind and snow hitting all of Turkey, UCAM was unable to bring forward its return and started preparing for the match against Real Madrid with work on the field at the Darüssafaka facilities and training sessions .video at your hotel.
With outside temperatures below zero degrees, the recommendations not to go outside and the ‘shock’ that the Turkish country had the worst earthquakes in almost a century, UCAM had to unite. And Sito believes that “we delivered high performances on the days we were there as a team.”
Just like UCAM, Real Madrid also had a game on the calendar this week against a Turkish team, Efes (the team with which James Anderson won the European championship in the past two seasons). Originally scheduled for last Thursday, two days after Darüssafaka-UCAM, it was also canceled and in time for the whites not to pack their bags. In other words, Chus Mateo’s men arrive in Murcia with their legs rested after not playing any matches during the week.
In today’s match, the supporters’ club ‘Sufridores del CB Murcia’ will display a giant canvas in tribute to José Luis Mendoza. The umpires will wear rainbow wristbands during a joint and annual action in the Endesa League as a sign of rejection of LFTBIphobia in the sport.
Source: La Verdad
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