Forced to Plan B towards the Euroleague

With four rounds to play, one victory away from Perfumerías Avenida and with the particular basket-average lost, winning the Regular League would mean having a full victory and waiting for two setbacks from the Salamanca team, who on Thursday won with ease in La Fonteta by 44 -61.

A defeat that leaves the shortest path to the Euroleague very complicated and forces them to focus their efforts on the playoff, where revalidating the LF Endesa title would once again give them direct qualification for the top European competition, although it could also be achieved reaching the final whenever the rival was Perfumerías Avenida, who would already have the ticket if they ended up winning the Regular League, which they already lead alone.

In this scenario, Valencia Basket has made a decision that is aimed at improving the status of the players ahead of the decisive playoff and it has been to stop Marie Gülich.

The limitations of the market due to regulations (you can only sign players without a team or from the LF Endesa) do not make it easy to find a replacement for Raquel Carrera, but the long-term absence of the Galician is now added to that of the German center , who after several weeks between cottons and forcing in certain matches, is forced to stop due to the injury to the patellar tendon that she was dragging.

The German, despite even having helped in Thursday’s game against Perfumerías Avenida with 14 minutes on the court, in which she added three points and four rebounds, is still not at 100% and, it is already very difficult to end up winning the League Regular to achieve the shortest ticket to the Euroleague next year, the club has considered that it is better for him to recover 100% so that he can fully reach the playoff, in which Valencia Basket will seek to revalidate its League title and achieve the pass to the top European competition one more year.

Thus, it has been stipulated that the center stops her activity for a few days and thus begins a treatment that will keep her away from the courts for the next few games, with the club limiting itself to pointing out that “her return to the team dynamic will be marked by her evolution.”

Although Valencia BC is alert to any market opportunity that may arise to help in the paint in the final stretch of the season, Rubén Burgos will continue to bet for the moment on giving more prominence to the quarry and on having Erauncetamurgil as ‘4’ , with Fingall and Hempe as the only interiors and with the versatility of Alba Torrens to also help as a power forward. Awa Fam itself played 12 minutes against Perfumerías Avenida, with 4 points and 3 rebounds for the youth team.

The accumulated fatigue, the weak defense and the poor shooting percentages left Valencia BC without options against a Perfumerías team that had been hurt by the Cup and that already beat them by 15 in the first round. If they meet again in the final it will be a good sign, because of the title at stake and because both would once again be Euroleague teams without a qualifying phase.

2024-03-30 03:00:39
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