La Penya confirms the surprise and becomes the first semifinalist of the Endesa League

He CB Youth is he first semifinalist of the Endesa League 2022-2023 after getting out of the Playoff for the title at Cazoo Baskonia, whom he defeated on Tuesday 83-76 at the Badalona Olympic Stadium, which once again became a tomb for the people of Vitoria, who had already buried their hopes in the Copa del Rey Also ahead of schedule.

La Penya is already waiting for the winner of Real Madrid-Dreamland Gran Canaria after returning to be the executioner of the men of Joan Peñarroya, which close a season that seemed exciting without even being close to any title. The defeat in the first game at the Buesa Arena continued on the Badalona field, which recorded an excellent start with almost 7,000 viewers.

The rebound, decisive

Baskonia did not have their night at the offensive level. Only Markus Howard he had a certain scoring pace (16 points), but he missed a little more of Darius Thompson, while Joventut once again had Kyle Guy, less spectacular than in Vitoria, but decisive with 22 points, half in a third quarter in which everything began to lean towards the local side. The rebounding, 42 to 31, was also a deciding factor.

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The game started almost as it ended at the Buesa Arena. Guy started fine from triple and scored his first two, which joined another of Vivesinsufficient, however, to get away from his rival in a hectic start and under a ‘playoff’ atmosphere at the Olympic.

initial equality

The local guard could not continue his success, but the other green-black key weapon of the first duel, Brodziansky, author of nine points. The visiting replica came through the triples of Howard and Diez and despite another success from the local line of three Happy Andrewat the end of the first ten minutes the maximum equality was maintained (21-19).

Peñarroya’s team began the second quarter more in tune, especially with the triple, with which they signed an optimal 4/4. Howard was once again his stiletto (8 points) in an electric duel at times with Felizbut his team was missing a better version of Thompson again.

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Baskonia managed to stay ahead 33-36, an advantage that did not last long as soon as his point guard had a rest. Joventut, with good minutes from Vives and doing a lot of damage in the ‘paint’ (16 points in this quarter), turned the score around 7-0 and managed to reach the break ahead (46-40).

The restart brought bad news for Peñarroya. Despite the fact that his team came out with energy and regained control (46-47), he saw how he had to send Howard to the bench for his third foul in his defense against a Guy who also aroused his scoring ‘greed’ in this period with eleven very important points for La Penya.

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“Every time we’ve fallen, we’ve gotten up again. What’s to come is going to be very big and very difficult, but we’re going to believe until the last second. May they beat us”

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Without their best scorer, Baskonia was not enough good work of Kotsar because he got entangled in attack accumulating loss after loss and began to see how the game was going uphill, especially when Guy, who had had a little rifirrafe con Heidegger settled with an unsportsmanlike foul for each one, he scored his fourth triple, far away and on the horn, to make it 71-62.

more decibels

The Badalona Olympics raised the decibels and Joventut “plugged in” with a 6-0 (77-62) that made them look closer to the semifinals against a “touched” rival, with Howard crippled on defense due to his four fouls and without excessive responses in attack, except for triple shots.

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Even so, the verdinegros stopped in a scoring drought of almost five minutes and that gave Baskonia the opportunity to try to recover their options for the final stretch, weighed down by the elimination of their star with almost four minutes to play.

Thompson, with two triples in a row, gave excitement (81-74) with more than a minute and a half, but the team from Vitoria ended up saying goodbye to another title chance in Badalona.

BADALONA YOUTH CLUB: Vives (15), Guy (22), Parra (3), Brodziansky (13) and Tomic (6) –starting five–; Kraag (3), Ellenson (2), Birgander (6), Feliz (13), Ventura (-) and Busquets (-).

CAZOO BASCONIA: Thompson (15), Marinkovic (3), Giedraitis (14), Costello (5) and Kotsar (12) — the starting quintet–; Howard (16), Heidegger (5), Ten (3) and Sedekerskis (3).

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PARTIALS: 21-19, 25-21, 25-22 y 12-14.

PAVILION: Olímpic de Badalona (6,917 spectators).