The UCAM takes a bath of confidence in a palace of shame

As colorful as the shirt that the UCAM wore for the first time today, the word ‘Murcia’ came up more than once in the palace, the very word that opens a new sponsorship of the Murcia City Council for the next four years. The same one who has not yet found a solution to a problem that has been dragging on for years, namely the thorough renovation of a pavilion that wants to organize top-level sports and entertainment events, but that cannot withstand rain without water. I am going through more and more leaks. Today, this shortcoming reached its most embarrassing point with torrential rain breaking out while the Palace hosted an Endesa League match, pushing basketball into the background and drawing attention to some stands where people were leaving their seats without really knowing where to avoid getting wet in a covered area. A surreal scene that unfolded just minutes after Murcia Municipal Councilor for Culture, Tourism and Sport and candidate for the new mayor of Ciudadanos, Pedro García Rex, received a UCAM shirt at half-time. UCAM Murcia: 83 Chiozza (5), Jelínek (7), Anderson (10), Radovic (12) and Pustovyi (8) -starting five- Bellas (11), McFadden (15), Sakho (5), Diop (2 ), Rojas (0), Nikolic (7) and Andronikashvili (1). Carplus Fuenlabrada: 64 Ngouama (0), Ali (12), Kromah (15), Horton (2) and Fernández (14) -starting five- García (4), Ehigiator (7), Díaz (0), Samar (3 ), Lewis (6), Eyenga (1) and Okouo. Partial: 12-23, 16-11 (28-34), 30-15 (58-49) and 25-15 (83-64). Referees: Oscar Perea, Francisco José Araña and Roberto Lucas. Incidents: Palacio de los Deportes de Murcia, 4,348 spectators. 30th day of the Endesa League. Fuenlabrada started as a commander. By the time what happened in a game in the second best basketball league in the world didn’t matter anymore, UCAM already had one of those wins they couldn’t keep in their backpacks. Fuenlabrada, already relegated, had been a very difficult obstacle to overcome in a terrible first half for the Murcians, who scored just one of their fifteen triple tries and lost up to ten balls for just one recovery. The pre-game context posed a clear danger. And this one happened. It was a team with no complexes, with nothing to lose, and with the pressure to know that, right at home, they couldn’t fail on the day no one expected it to happen. Long attacks to have to shoot because possession ran out, passes without confidence and defenses with cracks, especially in the defense of the block and the continuation, to the liking of the mobile Juan Fernández, who made Pustovyi suffer. Shortly after the start of the last quarter, the rain poured down from the sky through multiple leaks in a palace that couldn’t believe it got wet on the roof. Sito tried it with Bellas at the controls, but Fuenlabrada showed that she was the attack after UCAM’s block, on all as he wanted to put the ball to the pivot who continued forward after the block, on the second pass. And so it was easy to explain why of the ten first half defeats, seven came from the immediate recovery of Fuenlabreños, who reached thirteen rental points after a few minutes, dominated by Kromah (9-22, minute 9). In a match script similar to Fuenlabrada’s, UCAM struggled to play the bottom team. But his time would eventually come. Whether on their own merit or because of the rival’s lack of gas, those from Quintana give what they give. But this is usually more when the team in front plays without intensity, in the case of UCAM in the first half, which never played basketball well in the end, but made it more difficult for the defense of the Madrid team (28-34, halftime). . Radovic pointed the way. That good basketball that Sito’s men were chasing wouldn’t come without tightening the screws on defense. Teams that live off quick transitions and three-point success need to run, but without falling behind, UCAM would be sentenced to 40 minutes of static attack. UCAM scored more points in the third quarter (30) than in the first half (28), when Fuenlabrada finally gave up. This horizontal basketball would be the most expensive to flow, and for that the Murcians relied on their pivots. They knew how to play so that Pustovyi dominated Fernández by inches, pounds, experience and all, but Radovic was the standout, author of 10 points in the third quarter despite allowing himself two extra free throws. He was the comeback basket (39-38, minute 25), one who got off hard against Fuenlabrada with the power of his final blows, and made McFadden effective again by scoring eight points in the last two minutes of the game . game third quarter when he had a donut so far (58-49, end of third quarter). That’s how far Fuenlabrada came from, where little more can be asked of in these circumstances. Jelínek, who had also been slow to refine his sights, made the first double-digit difference for UCAM with the first basket of the last quarter (60-49), with only one team on court. Fuenlabrada took up to six minutes to score the first basket in play during this period and held out as best they could in a storm that became literal in the stands of the palace, helping some hopeful minutes from Tomás Bellas to bring the national base into recover this period. season finale.
Source: La Verdad

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