Valencia Basket earned the right to have the home court factor in each playoff tie by winning the Regular League and today is the first day that they must take advantage of that advantage by asserting the ‘Fonteta effect’ to get a ticket to the semifinals.
And it is that after the adjusted victory of the first leg in Magariños by 56-58, Rubén Burgos’s men are forced to face the duel as if it were a final to avoid scares and sentence the quarterfinals against Movistar Estudiantes, who was also the rival in the quarterfinals of the Copa de la Reina.
The precedent of last season, in which they overwhelmed at home after drawing in Madrid, is the best example to look at, although it is a rival they have always beaten since promotion to LF Endesa.
«It is a situation similar to that of last season, where it was a tie, in this case they are two points ahead. We came home with a good mentality and that’s how we deal with it,” says Rubén Burgos.
To this he adds that “we hope to feel comfortable at home. We know about the potential of Estudiantes and we have to continue in that line in a game in which we are at half-time and we are two points up. We hope at home to be able to extend that advantage and hopefully we’ll make it to the next round.”
2023-04-23 02:00:31
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