Bilbao Basket’s victory against Joventut (94-73) condemns the Madrid team to play in the next season for the first time in its history in the second division of Spanish basketball.
This time there will be no salvation in the offices. The Movistar Students He has had many lives in the last decade, but he has not reached seven. On the fourth, the student body is going to lose the category for the first time in its history. The vast victory of Retabet bilbao in front of Youth in Miribilla (94-73) with a triple festival (17) condemns the Madrid team to relegation to LEB Oro, leaving the Real Madrid Yet the Penya as the only clubs to have competed in all seasons of National League and ACB. A day, in short, historic for Spanish basketball and radiant for the fans of Bilbao, which achieved a huge permanence that in many moments of the course seemed impossible. One more outstanding monument to lex Mumbr in the ‘Botxo’.
It is not the first time that the team of Ramiro de Maeztu finishes a league in relegation places, but it will be the first that the category loss is effective. In the 2011/12 season, the Estu finished second to last, but the inability of the Tenerife To face the old canon, he forced him to give up promotion, saving the people of Madrid. In the 2015/16 the situation was repeated, since neither Palencia nor Melilla were able to meet the requirements to upload. Their last pirouette came last season, when the pandemic hiatus freed them from agony. Estudiantes were last, two victories away from salvation and with one more game, but the ACB agreed that there would be no relegation as the regular season could not be completed.
To the fourth go the charm. The millionaire canon that turned the ACB into a semi-closed league no longer exists and with total security there will be a LEB Oro team to promote. To readjust a competition that this year had 19 teams, just upload one, so the Gipuzkoa it completely lacks options to prevent burning. Granada, Real Murcia, Corua, Oviedo, Breogn, Palma, Castellón or Alicante They will take the student square after a ‘promotion playoff that started on Friday. For the Students, be the beginning of the hardest era in all its history, drowned by a historical debt that puts yet more stones in his backpack. This time there will be no miracle.
A disastrous season
The season has been dramatic for the coaching team first due to Javier Zamora and then for Jota Cuspinera. In January I suffered a covid outbreak which kept him out of competition for several weeks and then lagged his performance. Facing his decisive game on Friday against Burgos (resolved with defeat), he had two other positives. The effect of the pandemic caused in its day that Gentile left the club, very affected by the disease. He has also suffered major injuries such as those of Vicedo and Roberson and also Barea gave the scared a few weeks ago, citing family reasons. That cocktail of circumstances was reflected in a dark season finale, in which Estudiantes have lost their last nine games. Only by winning would one of them have been saved.
His own inability collided with the miraculous resurrection of a Retabet bilbao that barely a month ago he seemed dead. Also affected by a covid outbreak (and countless player changes, injuries and positives throughout the season), he was left with no choice but to face his last five games in 12 days. And, against all odds, those of Lex Mumbr have managed to win three of the last four (Fuenlabrada, Burgos and Joventut), falling only against the Real Madrid at the Wizink. This Sunday, he swept away a Penya that, already mathematically seventh, was not at stake and that was only involved in the game during the first 15 minutes. From then on, the Bilbao festival. The Estudiantes lived it from home, since on this last day he had to rest. The cruelest possible way to, this time yes, descend.
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