The university team faces a classic of the competition, which is in a vital state that has returned it to the nobility of the ACB
UCAM had a rough time three weeks ago when they fell in Manresa and Gran Canaria won their match. But luck changed for Sito Alonso’s team last Sunday, when the Canaries let a fundamental bullet escape at home against a Breogan without their two best players and UCAM showed no mercy on Obradoiro given the opportunity.
It is true that a few weeks ago Gran Canaria was no longer the only direct competitor in the qualifying rounds for the title, but it was the one that had to be eliminated. UCAM came out depressed two weeks ago from his visit to Bilbao, where a party he had on the track slipped from his hands like sand from the beach, and just a week later he was back on his own again. Those who come from behind and get the same number of victories – Gran Canaria and Bilbao – must get at least one more victory than the Murcians. The one with one less – Breogán – has to win two more. Things to have taken care of for the “basket average” back then.
And there are only three games to go. A final countdown that starts on Sunday at noon in the Palace. And he’s up against a great rival, a Joventut who is a classic of the competition and who is in a vital state that has brought him back to the nobility of the ACB, from which he departed during some of the difficult years after the Ricky and Rudy and before their capital increase. This Sunday, the mythical Penya visits Murcia as a team with which his fans, the fans of the most prolific academy in European basketball, feel identified.
Mix of homegrown players, committed veterans and foreigners who take the level to the next level with the Workman Jumpsuit. And fight for ambitious goals. Carles Durán’s men have already mathematically secured the ‘play-off’ classification, but they are still battling for the court factor in the quarter-finals. Right now it’s all about defense: they are fourth with 20 wins and 11 losses.
Sito’s men struggle to be there. The last time they did it, also the first and only time, was in 2016, with Fotis Katsikaris at the helm and a big step towards qualification, also against Joventut at the end of the regular season. It was on the penultimate day of the competition and before the trip to Madrid. Today is a day before but the penultimate home, and also days before they head to Madrid, as Wednesday is the final trip in the league to visit Real Madrid, which they have never beaten at home.
This Sunday’s game is at 12:30 PM, but not the only one that interests UCAM this day. Yes, most of all, but certainly within the team they paid attention to what happened last night in Lugo, where Barça beat Breogán. And half an hour after today’s first jump, the ball is also thrown in the air in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, a game where Murcian leaders and fans will keep an eye on their smartphones and wish that Valencia, a rival of Gran Canaria , will suffer the same fate as the UCAM this morning. The Murcian fans have responded with the highest collection of ticket sales of the season, behind only the media Madrid and Barça.
Source: La Verdad
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