Perhaps because it has always been one of its main virtues in recent years, at Lenovo forgot to ask the Three Wise Men for more aim from 6.75. The result is that yesterday the aurinegros were orphaned of their good performance in the shot from three, to the point of making their worst blur in this facet in almost five years.
Little could be foreseen yesterday that after Aaron Doornekamp scored his team’s first three-pointer to put the score at 7-12 on Lenovo Tenerife He was going to sign, against Murcia, one of the darkest days that is remembered from 6.75 in the last five years. So much so that Txus Vidorreta’s men finished with a very poor 3/19, which represents a meager 15.8% accuracy, less than half the 37.5% that the aurinegros had been averaging to date.
Two fateful moments.
That fatal aim on Three Kings Day is one of the reasons that explain the massive stumbling of the canaristas on the fourteenth day. A patent deficit especially in the second quarter, when all seven of their attempts from beyond the arc missed. The blur then had a similar reissue, already almost desperate, when the Lenovo finished sacrificing itself with a 1/8 in the final act. The only hit in those ten minutes was made by Sasu Salin, who had previously missed six consecutive three-pointers. The canarian service sheet in the shot of three became 2/17. Marce Huertas, at the beginning of the third act, was the other privileged player to score from long distance.
Unprecedented this year.
It is the poorest foreign score this year for the Canary Islands, not only in percentage, but also in quantity, since the most similar antecedent is the 4/12 in the derby against Gran Canaria, although that day said figure for the aurinegros was concealed completely with a 26/41 in shots from two. To find such a meager statistic of hits from 6.75, you have to go back to the 20/21 campaign, when the islanders were 3/9 against Manresa, a balanced figure with 26/50 in shots from two and a 26/30 in free.
A 2/22 in Valencia.
And to find an even worse reference to that of this day in Murcia, the Canary Islands have to go back to the 17/18 financial year, specifically to the 23rd date of the regular season and on the occasion of his visit to a Valencia (on March 18, 2018) directed that course by Txus Vidorreta. That day the aurinegros finished with a disastrous 2/22 (triple shots by Tobey and Borg) in a 74-61 defeat of the players then coached by Fotis Katsikaris. The only survivor of that squad, Tim Abromaitis, finished that day with 0/5. Yesterday, in figures similar to those in La Fonteta, and after letting the request pass to the Three Wise Men, Lenovo has the discounts left to find itself again from a long distance.
