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The west end of the LNBP is on fire. The two best teams in the area; Astros and Suns meet this Sunday in search of the conference title in a key where everything has happened: comebacks, surprises, beatings, but above all he has had great basketball.
Astros arrived as the leader of the area by having a great closing of the regular season, which was enough to snatch the first place from Mexicali, which is why Jalisco closes the fifth and final game at the Astros Arena.
Sergio Valdeolmillos’s men took advantage of the locality very well by winning the first two games at home with a very versatile basketball, despite the physical superiority of Iván Déniz’s men, who have taller men, but not as fast as the Guadalajara men. .
It seemed that Astros would finalize the series in Baja California, but Soles was much superior in games 3 and 4, where his sand weighed like never before and his coach found the way to some Astros who had already taken their measure since the playoffs of the last season.
Déniz played Valdeolmillos with the same formula: a very fast game where the return of Erik Thomas gave him the verticality and quality he needed to survive the series. Soles won both and returned a series that is for either side.
For Enrique Zúñiga, former basketball player and current Channel 6 commentator in the Astros home games, the main work that the coaching staff must attend to is psychological. After losing a 2-0 lead, the players must believe in themselves, while in the technical part they must adjust the team defense.
“The key will be in the mental aspect, Mexicali brings the emotional part in favor of the difference in points with which it won. For Astros to beat Mexicali it is necessary to limit the losses of balls and defend very well, Mexicali is very offensive. Jorge Gutiérrez will also be key, he must contribute more in points, in the last games he did not. As a group, go back to the game of hitting the basket again, not getting involved in the triples because in Mexicali they did very badly because they need to attack the basket more because in the free throws it was the key to winning in the first two games in Jalisco, where they improved the percentage of shots. So few losses, a very good team defense and play a more offensive game towards the basket, not abuse the triples ”.
TODAY WE PLAY, JALISCO! All together we go for the zone championship ????
We are waiting for you at the Astros Arena to make the locality feel ????????
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– Astros de Jalisco (@AstrosJalisco) November 14, 2021
But, just as Jalisco will have the appearance of the locality in its favor, Zúñiga warns that Mexicali will arrive very grown in the mental but more for the return of Thomas, who missed the last weeks due to injury and is already under Déniz’s orders.
“The Suns will have the mental aspect in their favor, with great confidence, they have already found a way for Jalisco. It was key that he took out Jaleel Akindele and put Erik Thomas in, that was the key, if Thomas had played in Guadalajara who knows if the series would continue to play, it gives them a lot of speed ”.
The duel will be played this Sunday at 6:00 p.m. at the Astros Arena, which will have a great entrance, since the board of directors put up a promotion for fans to attend and be the sixth player on the floor.
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