Can you be shipwrecked in the middle of La Mancha? It can. In view of the rock against which the Alimerka Oviedo Basketball boat crashed in its debut in the LEB Oro 22/23, it is empirically possible: 88-42.
The start of the match was everything it didn’t have to be. Flagrant turnovers, lack of defensive intensity, ineffectiveness… Everything for a 17-6 and time for Poch five minutes into the game. Even worse when the locals scored from outside and inside (4 triples in the first 8 minutes) and the OCB found nothing more than passes to the stands. The failure to appear was general when the Oviedo team, a team that is supposed to have a defensive attitude as a sign of intensity, allowed more than 30 points in the first quarter: 31-16.
The dynamic did not change at the beginning of the second quarter. Bueno Arenas Basket was a storm, 39-17 in the blink of an eye. Scoring was a world for Alimerka Oviedo while the newly promoted looked like the Jugoplastika of the 80s. Worse, defending as a fry does not work in possibly one of the five most demanding leagues in Europe.
To highlight, two triples by Domènech and a two plus one by Walters followed by a long shot by Alonso that forced Albacete to stop the match 49-31 and 1:45 to rest. Little more and a severe corrective at halftime: 52-31.
Declining trend in the third for an embarrassing 73-34 in the third with an inappropriate partial, 21-3 to finish in the last without the ability to do anything except try to leave the pavilion with his head held high.
The only good thing about sport is that there is always room to correct a mistake as big as this. And surely the ten hours of bus are enough for the collective and individual scourge before the next match on Tuesday against Cáceres, a World Heritage Site in Pumarín.
Statistics: https://baloncestoenvivo.feb.es/partido/2271641
