Talavera Basketball: Ganal (5), Martínez (17), Mcray-Thomas (13), Peris (8) and Archer (11) -starting five-, Cooper (12), Castillo (6), Astilleros, Onuetu (2) and Martin.
Enerparking Basket Navarra: Balastegui (11), Treviño (7), Kristensen (11), Popovic (5) and Lobaco (21) – the starting quintet – Herrera, Pablo Fernandez (14), Iñaki Ordoñez (4) and Juan Rodriguez ( 6).
Referees: Aranda Requena (Andalusian College) and Climent Rivera (Valencian College). Mcray-Thomas (min. 36) and Treviño (min. 39) were eliminated due to personal fouls.
Partials per quarter: 20-22, 15-20 (35-42), 20-17 (55-59), 19-20 (74-79).
First of May Sports Center. 1,300 spectators.
Another defeat for Baloncesto Talavera, which was always behind on the scoreboard and in the game rhythm from the initial jump and which showed scoring problems during many moments of the clash, which hindered it to compete with a quality team like Enerparking Navarre.
Ricardo Úriz’s team did not start well, making numerous mistakes in the shot and only lived by loading the rebound to prevent Jordi Juste’s team from breaking the game from the first quarter.
Both teams proposed a game with many possessions and high scoring and Enerparking showed itself more clearly and successfully in attack due to its interior superiority, after Andrejevic’s loss in Talavera Basketball, and with success in Lobaco’s perimeter. At 4-13 five minutes into the game, Úriz had to call the first time-out and managed to get Martínez, from the three-pointer, to stop the Navarrese team to arrive with the score almost level at the end of the first quarter (20-22). .
But in the second quarter the Talavera team came out unsuccessfully again, which also lost control of the rebound and found itself at the mercy of an Enerparking Navarra led by Pablo Fernández, very toned in the outside shot, which opened a gap of ten points (24-34). The zone defense imposed by Úriz and minutes of individual inspiration from Cooper managed to get the match open at halftime (35-42), although with a clear superiority for the Navarrese team.
Lobaco, after the intermission, threatened to break the game definitively with a succession in the annotation that received no response in the Talavera. The greatest difference was up to 11 points (41-52) at 4:35 for the end of the quarter and again the Talaverabi team reacted from defense, control of the rebound and greater clarity in attack with Mcray-Thomas, Cooper and Castillo taking the reins, which left the difference in just four points (55-59) after a 14-7 run.
But always going in tow without being able to complete the comeback was a physical and emotional ballast for Úriz’s team. Balastegui offered a three-point recital in the last quarter to seal the match for the Navarrese team, which also matched the defensive intensity of Baloncesto Talavera and managed to almost close the game at 4:30 to go with a maximum difference of 12 points ( 59-71). The lack of scoring and the excessive turnovers made any hint of a reaction impossible for the Talavera team, which fought until the end in search of a reaction that fell to three points with nine seconds to go.
It should be noted that the game started half an hour late due to a technical problem with the possession clock for one of the baskets.
