Demanding derby for Hereda San Pablo against Real Valladolid • Forofos Magazine

Hereda San Pablo Burgos will receive a visit from the most fit team in the competition, UEMC Real Valladolid Baloncesto, this Wednesday, starting at 8:30 p.m., at the Coliseum. The group led by Curro Segura will seek to reinforce the good work displayed in their last league victory in Melilla to try to add a new victory against the team from Valladolid, which will arrive at the Burgos pavilion with the best streak in the entire LEB Oro, thanks to its four consecutive wins.

«The games of the first round do not have much to do with the second. The teams
they evolve and change a lot”, warned the Hereda San Pablo Burgos coach, who explained: “We are a quite different team from the one that went to play in Valladolid and what worries us tomorrow is responding to their physical game and the intensity that they put on the field ».

It is expected that all the players can be available to Curro Segura to participate in tomorrow’s Spanish derby, a commitment to which the people of Burgos arrive “with the utmost enthusiasm so that one more victory at home is added and our public can enjoy it” , but also aware of the demands of the party.

UEMC Real Valladolid Basketball will visit the Coliseum from fourth position in the standings, with a balance of 13 wins and 5 losses, and within the best dynamics of the LEB Oro, thanks to its streak of four consecutive wins, the last of they against the co-leader Zunder Palencia (76-70), who fell for the second time this season.

The best in the squad coached by Paco García in that duel were Maj Kovacevic (15 points, 14 PIR) and Melwin Pantzar (12 points, 7 rebounds, 17 PIR). The Swede is the most outstanding at a statistical level of Valladolid: he is the fifth highest scorer in the league (15.83 points on average) and the second most valued player (20.61 credits per game).

«To this day, Valladolid is the team that is in the best shape in the competition. Not only because of the victory against the leader Palencia, but because they have been chaining good games”, Curro Segura has assessed this Wednesday’s rival, whose defensive strength and athletic ability have been analyzed: “It is a team that does many things well and It will force us to be well in many aspects.

Beyond focusing on individualities, the Andalusian coach has valued the collective capacity of a team that has “a very athletic pair of point guards that makes the team run” and “big physically very powerful” players. The objective for those who will act as locals tomorrow will be “for people to enjoy with us again, to have a good time at the Coliseum, and for us to add a victory to continue the start of this second round on the path we want.”

Another challenge for the people of Burgos will be trying to beat one of the teams located in the noble zone of the table: «We have the first opportunity of the second round to try to defeat a team that is in the top 8, something that It didn’t happen during the first round.”