Surprise in the Antel Arena in the warm-up since only 11 players were present from the start and that is that Al Thornton stayed in the locker room due to a stomach problem.
In the beginning the red wings started with everything, great defensive intensity and the hand boiling from beyond 6.75 Villegas with four triples plus one from Abel and took a quick 17-2 lead, forcing Capelli to ask for a minute. Around the same time, the waterman who showed little with Davis corrected, Olimpia remained firm, Brian García appeared and also Riauka in the paint and stretched to 19 (29-10). With a couple of goals finding the ball, he dwarfed the water carrier that went down 31-15.
A fleeting 6-0 by Villegas put the maximum and forced his rival to ask for an early minute, as if Roberts and Davis were not enough on the bench with three personnel. Capelli’s men this time grew from defense, with Sarni as a figure and a 10-0, believe it or not, but the comeback coincided with the entry of Thornton. Olimpia did not convert in four and a half minutes and the game was very similar to the first in the series. García Morales had more contact with the ball, Sarni handled the strings while those on Garzón Avenue were lackluster, but they went up 45-35.
At the return of the long break the game definitely changed, Leandro and Thornton took over the ball, shrinking 47-45. The party entered a plateau, the two failed many, Olimpia planted in the zone and complicated the water carrier but in offense he failed a lot, despite this he found four units in a row from García and a double from Newsome and with free Riauka he continued stretching the differences, as if that were not enough, Roberts fouled the Lithuanian, he was called a technician for protesting and left the game without pain or glory. The third boy closed 59-49 for the Engineer’s.
Olimpia came out plugged, did not want surprises and showed very good passages in attack with Agarbado and García on the perimeter while in the paint Q and Ziggy became huge to open a 22 lead (73-51). Aguada unknown, the ball did not want to enter, in six minutes he only put a double from Thornton. The balance began to tip more and more, so much so that both coaches sent the kids to the field. The final result was 83-66 for Olimpia, who did not let up and is still alive in the key, now he is down but 2-1.
