Last Christmas we talked about play off It was a real chimera for him. Betis Basketball when in the last game of 2023 they lost in Cáceres by 64-61. A little more than four months later and against the same rival (Friday, 9:00 p.m.), who arrives relegated and without anything at stake, the green and white team can secure ninth place to be mentioned in the promotion promotion before Students. And from there, without any pressure, let’s dream.
In other circumstances one could not speak of success. Quite the opposite after the money invested and coming from the ACB, but in this turbulent season, with constant changes and with economic problems at the end, Finishing ninth, rowing from far behind, is the best that the Heliopolitan team could hope for to extend a season in which they will still have a lot to say. Because playing these qualifying rounds for promotion is a award for a team that believed more than anyone and he recovered from all the problems that came from outside.
With the future in the air, in the present this Betis Baloncesto still has a lot to say and he is responding on the court in the best way to all the uncertainty that surrounds him, so tying that position play off It is the best way for the locker room to respond to those who want to kill basketball in Seville, to those who do not support it or see it as a burden, instead of as a way to make a mark.
But you have to go step by step and you cannot make the mistake of believing that everything is already done. Nothing could be further from reality, because the finishing touch needs to be put and for this the mental issue will be decisive. He has worked on it Bruno Savignani this week, since he wants his players to jump to San Pablo with tension, but not tense; with pressure, not pressed. And the fact is that an opponent with nothing at stake other than his own pride can become a dangerous rival if he lacks concentration and stops doing all the good things that have been done since the locker room came together confident that it can be done. something very nice.
The green and white improvement is evident until they become one of the teams to avoid in the play off for the good moment that key pieces like Polanco and Joaquín Rodríguez, the team’s offensive leadersin addition to the address of Faggianothe defense as a block of the entire group that complicates things for anyone when they get into the zone, and the necessary appearance of some secondary, whether Berzins or Kuksiks scoring from the triple, Doménech or Dedovic giving an extra back, or De Bisschop becoming strong in the area.
One of the keys to the match, beyond the logical strength in rebounding and success from the outside, will be the staging. It is Betis Baloncesto that needs to win so as not to have to pay attention to what Fuenlabrada does, so the Seville team has to show from the initial jump that need in the form of desire, desire and intensity to make things clear to a Cáceres that must be thinking more about preparing for the next campaign than about how to finish the current one.
However, they will not come without a fight and the former Betic point guard Dani Rodriguez will carry the handle of a team in which Attention y Gantt On the outside they are the most important pieces of those of Arturo Álvarez, who loses to Dikembe inside and they arrive in Seville after a chain of eight defeats, 16 in the last 17 games, a negative streak that has sent them to the LEB Plata without remission. At the expense, of course, that in the summer some unexpected situation of resignation from the category will allow him to pull some loophole to continue in the second category of national basketball. It will not be the green and white resignation from the LEB Oro, Well, the club, what’s left of it and those who still love it, seek to give it an extra life.
But for this we will have to wait for the legal situation to be resolved in the summer. Before It is time for the fans, however much or little that remains after years of mistreatment, to show that basketball has its place in Seville and, above all, of the team, which must take the last step to compete in a well-deserved play off that cannot be escaped at the last minute. There is only one victory left, one more on the tortuous path that began with the sale to a Mexican group, XOY, which seemed like a patron and has been nothing more than another ghostly apparition that wanted to make a profit where there is none. Neither here nor in any club in Spain. The necessary victory against Cáceres will be the triumph of faith from a team that believed more than anyone and that wants to give San Pablo the jackpot.
2024-05-09 19:33:34
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