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Real Valladolid Basketball dedicates the twelfth victory in Pisuerga to Moratinos

The twelfth victory in Pisuerga had a name and surname: José Luis Martín Moratinos. He was not present in body but he was present in soul because in the previous one he received a well-deserved tribute posthumously and later he was able to witness from heaven a new exhibition of a UEMC Real Valladolid Baloncesto that grew with the passing of the minutes to end up crushing a Melilla without a sting.

The victory, the 16th in the League, lifts him to third position at the expense of closing the matches of the day this Sunday. And on the parquet there was another proper name: Kevin Allen. The one from Michigan made the area his headquarters and from there he stabbed his rival with a very meritorious double double with 18 points and 11 rebounds, being key in the decisive moments of the duel.

The start was purple with a successful Kuiper in the launch and a general traffic jam from the visiting team, unable to score in the first attacks, and the 8-0 start made it clear that Paco García’s men do not take prisoners and that few are going to take the loot in their fiefdom. A 5-16 run turned the game around, with a ring sealed for the locals who rushed into the shots against the success of Davis and Jarumbauskas. A triple on Mulero’s horn gave García de Vitoria’s team the victory at the end of the first quarter, 16-19. It was the prelude to the triple festival with success by Kovacevic and Thompson, and with Mike Torres as an offensive stiletto to break the game again with the 29-23. Another differential factor was going to be the captain De la Fuente, adjusting well behind and scoring in the rival zone, for a later triple from Belemene, to reopen more income with 37-32.

E.M.

The choral game of the locals, 12 assists at halftime, was followed by Davis with 10 points and a lot of success from 6.75. That 39-35 at halftime gave way to a third quarter lacking in rhythm and with several losses in both sets. Allen was going to be the one to break the match and put the lead in double digits for the first time with 54-44. Although Melilla arrived alive in the last 10 minutes (56-49), their chances of victory were reduced if not zero because De la Fuente saw the ring as if it were a swimming pool and Gantt put in an extra gear to take an insurmountable distance with the 65-51. Pantzar, less brilliant, and Kovacevic from the triple closed the match that took a difference of 22 points.E.M.

Finally Melilla left him in the final 85-66, in a solvent victory for Paco García’s men, intractable at home against the bottom of the League that was diluted like a sugar cube before the local rhythm. The accident in Coruña will be forgotten if the team manages to recover sensations at home, also in Galician lands, next Saturday in Ourense.

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