Alimerka Oviedo Baloncesto needs to be happy today (6:30 p.m.) in a Pumarín sports center that will be filled to the brim (there are a few dozen tickets left for sale) to see their team in one of the most important games they have ever played in recent years. And it is that the duel against Iraurgi, with whom they are tied on five victories, is fundamental in the fight for permanence that the Carbayón team is waging this season.
It will be the return of Guillermo Arenas to Pumarín as coach of Oviedo Baloncesto, which he managed to promote to LEB Oro in 2013, a decade ago. The coach from Oviedo returns to the club to replace Trifón Poch, who was fired due to the team’s poor results, with the obsession of keeping the OCB, his lifelong club, in the second category of Spanish basketball.
They are practically forced to take the first step to achieve this today, at home, against an opponent who is in the same fight and with whom they already lost in the first round (94-85), so a victory by more than nine points of difference would have a double value, since it would also give them the basket-average in case they end up with the same victories. Without Comendador, who will miss the rest of the season due to injury, the rest will go for a victory that seems essential.
