Something was missing, emotion was missing – La Provincia

In the end, there was emotion, and precisely for this reason the success of Gran Canaria will remain in a place of better memories. It is what was missing to complement the island’s superiority at the beginning.

It seemed too easy. Gran Canaria went through an entire Eurocup final with the sufficiency with which an NBA would play a party against a junior on any court, without suffering, plenty. It seemed so simple that the value of the feat was intuited diminished, as if the team had not had to defend like dogs, be extremely accurate in the shots or almost completely block the leader of the Turkish league, a country of good basketball, as much as that the finalist of the second continental competition marches ahead of a Euroleague quarterfinalist like Fenerbahce.

When the game went to halftime with the Claretian team 17 points up, the feeling in Gran Canaria was one of celebration, of joy, of satisfaction for what everyone took for granted was going to happen very shortly after, the raising of the cup, since he had no reason to think otherwise. However, despite the general joy, something was missing; such is the nonconformity of humanity. What had not yet appeared is what is surely the strongest of human feelings, emotion, the one that, when it appears, strips anyone. And surely for this reason, because he burst in with all his might to preside over the final stretch of an agonizing match, the Granca title, for many, will remain in a place of close memories.

the box Jaka Lakovic he did everything in the final: dominate, escape, relax, fall asleep, wake up and jump out of bed. Each of their states throughout the 40 minutes of play was decisive in the future of the clash. If everything had gone well in the first two quarters, in seven minutes of the third he had barely scored five points and shortly after his two most influential centers, the homegrown players Olek Balcerowski and Khalifa Diop, got four fouls as a result of some bad refereeing decision. , but also from his little experience. Relaxation also did its thing, surely because she also lacked her antagonist, the fuss.

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That first Turkish approach went as far as eight points, which definitely got them into the game. The second warning was more forceful, up to four units, until finally they got to two and with possession of the ball to get ahead.

It was then that the hand of Shurnathe MVP, to hit a triple three minutes away and 12 seconds from the end, raising the difference to five and igniting the Arena, which boiled over to never let the team fall again. After all, everyone was already seized with emotion. What was missing.