A last-minute basket of uncertainty from Elgin Cook and Abromaitis’ stopper against Joel Parra put the Canaries in contention for the title
Tenerife finally has its long-awaited Copa del Rey final. There are few trophies as deserved and won as the Canarian team, who needed five semi-finals to win their established project to compete for a national title. They have three Intercontinental Cup trophies and two more from the Champions League, but a great ACB crown would be the cherry on top of the prodigious decade of chicharrero basketball. He knew how to suffer against Joventut, in someone else’s house, but he clung to the duel like a sea slug and decided on a dramatic denouement.
The start of the game was a nice exchange of blows. On the one hand, Kyle Guy and Joel Parra’s triples; on the other hand the magic of Marcelinho Huertas. The first quarter’s equities turned green and black at the start of the second. Without a trace of Barça or Real Madrid and under the protection of their own country, these Penya had reasons to dream of a title under their own protection.
The 9-0 start in the second set was a warning, with Parra on fire, unleashed in front of a devoted crowd. The score of 36-23 set alarm bells ringing in Tenerife and Sasu Salin came to the rescue with his great virtue, the triple. The 0-12 partial showed that this chicharrero project means big words and that five semifinals in six years is a very serious argument to finally fight for the title.
Vives (3), Kyle Guy (10), Parra (26), Brodziansky (3) and Tomic (5) -starting five-, Feliz (9), Pau Ribas (9), Ventura, Busquets, Kraag, Ellenson (7 ) and Brigand.
Huertas (15), Jaime Fernández (13), Cook (2), Doornekamp (9) and Shermadini (12) -starting five-, Fitipaldo (5), Sergio Rodríguez, Salin (13), Abromaitis (4), Diagne and War.
After the break, the game collapsed into a thick dynamic. The scoring percentage dropped abruptly and Jaime Fernández had two triples to put Tenerife ahead, but missed. Marcelinho Huertas, chicharrero leader of the turning point, did not.
Joventut contained the Canarian reaction in a duel that took place under maximum equality until the end. Pau Ribas took the heat from the Olímpic and this put a dent in Doornekamp, who committed an incomprehensible unsportsmanlike act twenty seconds from time. Andrés Feliz held the final but failed, giving Tenerife the opportunity to run out and silence Badalona with an uncertainty-plagued basket from Cook. The drama of La Penya was completed with the stop from Abromaitis to Parra. The best player in the game didn’t deserve such a brutal outcome, weight that’s how the sport of the basket spends them.
Source: La Verdad
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