Rioverde Clavijo, 78-Alimerka Oviedo, 81
Rioverde Clavijo, 78-Alimerka Oviedo, 81
Rooms: 14-23; 21-15; 26-15; 17-28
Referees: Igor Esteve, Peter Alexander Munar and Joan Fanes. Ruled out visiting Marc Martí for 5 personals.
Sports Palace of La Rioja.
Alimerka Oviedo Baloncesto’s face has changed in two weeks. Javi Rodríguez’s team has gone from losing all the close finals, accumulating six defeats in a row, to winning games like the one they won yesterday in Logroño, against Clavijo, with Raúl Lobaco as the hero of a team that is already very close to permanence after add their tenth victory, the second in a row, which gives them a lead of four over relegation. The blue team’s match was irregular, worse than others in which the coin came out tails, but this time Raúl Lobaco used talent, success and personality to unleash madness among his teammates and among the dozens of fans of the Oviedo team who traveled to the Sports Palace of La Rioja.
The thing about the guard from Zaragoza is curious because he is finding his best game when he seemed to have faded, moved to the bench after a good start to the season, without success and it seemed that without confidence. Nothing to do with the Lobaco of these last three games, especially the last two. With Demetric Horton going through a strange phase of the season, suddenly, in the victory against HLA Alicante (89-83), the hand was in charge of stopping Davison, the rival’s great offensive threat, to end the OCB’s bad streak against one of the best teams in the League. Yesterday, in Logroño, he directly dressed as a hero to take advantage of the final three seconds that an error by Txemi Urtasun granted to the Oviedo team and add a key victory against the improved bottom of the LEB Oro. He also did so, culminating a spectacular match , in which he added 26 points, with a rating of 30 credits. An action that allows the OCB to win a game that was, like its season, irregular, with very good moments and others in which it short-circuited, wasting very comfortable income. Javi Rodríguez’s team seemed like they were going to get the game back on track in the second quarter when they took a 14-point lead (21-35) six minutes before halftime. But the Carbayones suffered from the blocking, the bad attacks and the rival center, Kolo, began to dominate the game. Those from Oviedo miraculously finished with an advantage at halftime (35-38) and with the feeling that everything had gone wrong.
El Clavijo, which has improved a lot with the signings, smelled blood and knew how to take advantage of this weakness and went eight up (61-53) in the last quarter, much closer to adding its second victory in a row, which would have given it certainty. hope to save the category. But Lobaco appeared, all heart, in the fourth quarter. The team held on to the Zaragoza to close the gap: seven points in a row brought the OCB closer to one point (66-65) with 5.53 left. A triple by Dan Duscak, another of the highlights in the important moments, tied it at 73 with 2.20 to finish. The clash was in a handkerchief and a three-pointer from Lobaco to put OCB three up (75-78) with 37 seconds Knudsen responded with another to return the tie with 31 seconds still left to play.
Josep Pérez tried twice and both times failed in Oviedo’s attack, which left 5.9 precious seconds for Clavijo to win. Veteran Txemi Urtasun caught the ball, thinking more about taking a foul that would give him two shots than anything else. But he made a mistake and went off the track at 2.9 seconds. Ball for Oviedo with enough time for Lobaco to catch the ball and turn the battle of Clavijo into an Asturian party. In a victory that smells of permanence.
2024-03-18 03:00:49
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