The Women’s Valencia Basket He had no compassion this Thursday for the recently promoted Barça CBS, whom he won with a score that says it all, 91-34. A victory with the maximum difference achieved by the Taronja team in LF Endesa, 57 points, surpassing the previous record of 46 points in a game against Durán Maquinaria Ensino. In front of him he had a team that perhaps was able to stage fright of stepping on La Fonteta for the first time against a Euroleague team, despite having practically the same numbers this season, both five wins and three losses for the taronja against two for the Catalans , with one less game.
With a colossal first quarter (26-4) and another second at the same level (30-14; at halftime 58-18) he put a game on track after which he has six wins in his aspirations to secure the Queen’s Cup and extends his streak of six consecutive victories. Barça could barely react to the taronja gale, because nothing entered it; quite the opposite of Rubén Burgos’s girls, who had their great scorer in Lauren Cox with 14 points in the first quarter, and an overall efficiency of 24 of 33 in field goals compared to 18 of 31 for their rival, in addition of the 5 of 9 triples for one of 11 of the blaugrana. Of the 30 advantage with which the first quarter ended, they went to a difference of 40 points, which did not make it necessary to risk the reappearance of Cristina Ouviña, injured before the FIBA windows and who dressed short for the first time yesterday at La Fonteta.
With the match absolutely on track against Isaac Fernández’s men, the second half began more calmly and neither team was able to score until Hamblin did after three minutes (58-20). A 3-7 run for the first time in favor of the visitors and almost five minutes without scoring made Rubén Burgos call a timeout to order the attack and recover the game and the dynamics of before the break. In the end, Salvadores made up the result of a third quarter that Valencia Basket lost (9-10)but the job was already done and after a new triple by Cox they reached a 41-point difference.
Reaction at the end of the captain’s hand
Casas opened the last quarter (14 points in his locker) of a Valencia Basket that continued to destroy its rival in speed and with a 10-0 run (77-28, 49 up) forced Barça to stop the bleeding with a time dead. The extaronja Kristina Rakovic scored the first 4 points for Barça in this quarter, after almost three and a half minutes in white. But the Catalans did not finish, and instead the taronja continued linking sets and points up to a 53 lead with two minutes to go (87-32), with the appearance of Awa Fam and Lauren Cox, who reached 19 personal points as the top scorer of the match and a PIR of 22. A resounding 14-0 run took Valencia Basket to the maximum advantage of 59 points, which Vucetic reduced minimally to the final 91-34.
The best comeback possible Valencia Basket behind the FIBA windows, who finished with an overall rating of 133, with 14 points from Salvadores and Casas (the captain starred with 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals and a PIR of 32) with 14 points, Romero with 13 and Fam with 10 points.
Datasheet:
Valencia BC: A. Salvadores (14), Q. Casas (14), L. Romero (13), R. Carrera (4), L. Cox (19) -initial quintet-, E. Christinaki (0), A. Torrens ( 8), C. Ouviña (-), E. Buenavida (0), M. Gülich (9), A. Fam (10).
Barcelona CBS: J. Rueda (1), M. Canella (4), K. Rakovic (5), I. Llobet (2), R. Hamblin (8) -starting five-, L. Navarro (0), D. Bermejo ( -), C. Guerrero (6), A. Cruz (0), J. Vucetic (6), A. López (2), V. Mircheva (0).
partial: 26-4, 30-14 (58-18); 9-10, 24-6 (91-34)
Referees: Joaquín Lizana Morano, Jorge Baena Criado and Alejandro Calvo Aceña.
