The Union Linense de Basketball (ULB) experienced this saturday a notable improvement with respect to the level exhibited so far in the competition, but the lack of rhythm weighed him Own of a team that the Covid has had stopped for three weeks and the hopeful balance was not enough to avoid the ninth defeat in as many days. The Albinegros, bottom, fell (67-75) before the leader of the DA group of the EBA League, the Novaschool of Malaga, that he did not feel comfortable on the track, but that he did leave the mark of being a candidate for everything.
The party, which served the discreet base debut californiano Michel Pannagio, got off to a promising start: those of David Jesús Gutiérrez Guti came to enjoy an income of 10-4, but a time-out redirected the situation for the Malaga team, which first equalized (12-12, 14-14) and later vsniffed the result (16-17).
From there the Novaschool always marched ahead, until the middle of the third period the ULB, which had been increasing his defensive level, managed to take command. With 49-48 in the light came the exclusion of Iván Torres when a technique was pointed out to him when he already accumulated an unsportsmanlike one.
The decision of an arbitration couple that without being the cause of the defeat had anti-caseros dyes, He took La Línea out of the game, who arrived at the beginning of the fourth period already behind (49-53) and that although in no time did they throw in the towel (another symptom of their improvement) they ended up bending the knee.
Of course, the development of the contest has nothing to do with the duel that these two teams had starred in on December 23 (86-62) and that the ULB, after three weeks in quarantine, has only been able to work normally in the last five days.
The results of the thirteenth day of the DA group of the EBA League and the progress of the classification can be consulted in this link.
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