87-62 | A victory worth two

Starting in the direction of Goran Filipovic it was almost perfect. He found his teammates and scored on top of him, two and three. Nwogbo also began his recital more than he had to dance with the best player of the rival, a With Oliver Arteaga that he had just been the MVP of last day and that, in his previous confrontation, in the first round, he ended up by KO with the two orange fives, eliminated due to personal fouls. The American was very focused, as he demonstrated with almost impossible rebounds and a play of 2 + 1 that supported by a triple by Galán gave the locals their first serious distance (14-9). The problem was in the fouls. five for him motto. Only one from Oviedo. The Croatian point guard had to sit down and entered Ingus Jakovicprotagonist at the end of the first quarter with free throws and a 3+1 play to make it 23-16.

Oviedo continued to resist. A triple here, an action from Arteaga there and he endured the downpour (30-25) of a motto that you could tell that he was beginning to put the direct one. Without any frills, even with errors like the ones Epi had pointed out in the preview such as turnovers and rebounds, but a constant pace and intensity that is very difficult to match. As soon as he chained a couple of good defensive actions, the gap on the scoreboard went easily over ten points (38-27 after a 2+1 from Lundqvist) and was consolidated with the work under the boards of Nwogbo. At halftime, he was already fifteen (45-30).

He motto He came out better from the locker room, something that is already a specialty and that shows his ability to concentrate. With a 9-2 run at the start, a gap of more than twenty points (54-32) was opened, based on a defensive intensity that forced Oviedo to have to touch perfection to score each basket, making them desperate. Two triples of Yunio Barrueta they were almost the sentence (60-38), but then Leyma had a small block. The party got stuck. Filipovic lost the ball from his hands. Diagne missed under the basket. A triple from Vega came out. The number of fouls by the oranges increased while the public shouted “What a pity Arteaga!”. The Asturians got closer (63-49) but Nwogbo scored a decisive three-pointer at the buzzer (66-49).

Because it killed the ghosts. That not even winning from 14 is one calm against Oviedo. He changed the dynamic and the Leyma resumed his plan and went into his roller mode. It did not matter that, for the fourth consecutive quarter, his foul box grew disproportionately to that of the rival. reappeared Filipovic with his triples and his follow-up of the plays. Lots of them completed a colossal job. And the twenty advantage returned with a few final minutes and even relaxation.