Liberbank Oviedo Basketball wins in Melilla (72-80)

Oliver Arteaga, in the foreground, fights a rebound yesterday in Oviedo’s victory against Melilla (72-80)
Melilla Basketball

He Liberbank Oviedo Baloncesto achieved a commendable victory today (72-80) on the Melilla court that brings them very close to the goal of the season: permanence. The team of Natxo Lezkano consolidates among the top five of its group of LEB Oro, which would classify them with the teams that are going to fight to get into the play-off for promotion to the ACB. In addition, in the case of not achieving it, it continues to add victories that would leave it in a very good place in the event of entering the group that would fight to avoid relegation.

This season’s OCB has a spectacular merit, being able to compete and surpass projects with much more budgets and with established players. Asturians are doing it with a young group in which the talent of people like Speight and Brown, well escorted by veterans Oliver Arteaga and Saúl Blanco. The first two added 10 and 15 points respectively to beat Melilla while the second contributed 14 and 13 points. A mix that is turning out very well and that, despite its mistakes and moments of anxiety, is being able to get ahead.

The game against Melilla was completely dominated, setting the pace that interested them and always taking the initiative on the scoreboard. However, those errors, those disconnections that already paid dearly against Coruña and Palencia, made the duel emotional almost to the end. Despite everything, the OCB is in constant evolution and increasingly solves its matches with more security, as he has shown in the two victories that he has chained and that leave him in a situation that they did not even dream of at the beginning of the season.