Updated Sunday, April 28, 2024 – 22:17
In Belgrade, where Unicaja inaugurated its European record – the 2001 Korac Cup -, Alberto Daz He raised the Basketball Champions League to the sky for the Malaga club, another continental title, the third in its history, to consolidate the wonderful process of rebirth in which the team he directs is going through. Ibon Navarro. The ‘Ibon Plan’ prevailed over the experience of Lenovo Tenerife (they could not expand their account, champion of the tournament in 2017 and 2022), repeating the script of the 2023 Copa del Rey in Badalona. [75-80: Narracin y estadsticas]
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Whatever happens, 2024 will be historic for Unicaja. Leader of the Endesa League at this point and with a European crown in his showcases (and the 600,000 euros FIBA prize that the champion takes home). A state of euphoria, of permanent competitive tension, of returning to the roots of a club that always had a lot to say in Spanish basketball. It was difficult for them to suffer (like in the semi-finals against UCAM Murcia), obviously, in the very final against Tenerife, that beloved enemy of so many recent battles. But the defense and the spirit in the decisive minutes, when the Aurinegros attempted the comeback, with Kendrick Perry Taking responsibility, he gave him the glory he was after so much, the one that eluded him in the Carpena Final Four a year ago.
Unicaja was a rock for 40 minutes. They already left with the maximum advantage at halftime (27-38), after a basket on an individual play by Kendrick Perry. It was his night and he would be named MVP. His game plan was already beginning to bear fruit, when the quality of his stars came to light. Before there had been the flashes of Tyson Carterbut the key to everything was the defense designed by Ibon Navarro, intensity, aggressiveness on the front line, suffocation on Marcelinho Huertaswhich is the beginning and the end of Tenerife.
Unicaja players celebrate the victory in Belgrade.ANDREJ CUKICEFE
The distance had taken a while to become evident, but the recurring losses of the collective of Chus Vidorretasome suicides on the front line, especially clumsy at dawn Kyle Guy. After the initial mistake of both, the triple Malagueos arrived and Unicaja began to feel comfortable in Belgrade, as spectacular as the Stark Arena was soulless.
The three triples on the way back from the locker room Nihad Dedovic They opened the insular wound further. Despite Marcelinho’s impetus, the feeling soon began to be one of frustration, of wanting and not being able to. Although there was a reaction, because the experience and competitive ardor of the Aurinegros is no ballad. A partial of 14-3 to get back into the duel, finding Shermadini in painting and taking advantage of some gaps in Malaga’s concentration.
Tenerife continued to push, with the impetus of a Guy in search of redemption, from his version of the semi-finals against Peristeri (34 points), but every time he pushed forward, Unicaja responded fiercely. Already in the last act, Perry strung together five points in a row of pure genius (a long triple and a counter after another steal), plus another triple later, assuming responsibility at the hottest moment and showing himself as the most decisive guy of the night in Belgrade. He cried after the American base, all the emotion that comes with these skies, the ones reached by the historic Unicaja.
2024-04-28 20:17:51
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