Súper Agropal Palencia fell completely dismasted against Inveready Gipuzkoa, who led the match from start to finish and in which they led the purple team by up to 24 points (64-76)
Tough defeat, for doing it at home, but especially for the form, which Súper Agropal Palencia achieved today against Gipuzkoa Basket. A match in which Palencia never, ever had a real chance of winning the match and only a final push, with four of the only five triples of the entire match for Lezkano’s team (who ended up sent off for a double technical) could make up the result a little, but not the sensations. Fourth loss of the season, second at home.
To start, Oroz, Vrankic (two ex-Gipuzkoa), Borg, Wintering and Armus, who won the kickoff, giving the ball to the point guard who scored the first of the game. Close behind, Palencia prevented the visitors’ first two plays. Not so the third, in which Wintering found himself dragged (literally) by Korsantia to free Varela who scored 3. The Basques were ahead, and the locals, failing, as in Coruña, in their attacks. Except for the initial play, the purple team did not score in 3 minutes. 2-5. Mal painted the dog’s eye.
Lezkano brought on Kamba to replace Vrankic. In his first intervention he cut off a pass, but conceded a more than controversial three-shot foul. 2-10. “I don’t know where in this story I lost the primary plot.” Perhaps already at this moment, one could think after the fact.
Borg, in a personal move, once again saw the hoop for the locals, who were thick and flawed and, with difficulty, could erase the visitors’ advantages. The rush once again blinded Palencia’s attacks. Quite the opposite of Gipuzkoa, which little by little was making money. 8-15 with 3.20 to play. Lezkano timeout. “The stove went out, nothing works, where is the light?” I must have thought.
And it still didn’t work. It was Gipuzkoa who was in charge. Who was right? Not even Kunkel, voted best player of the month, was in tune, even missing free throws. The defenses were no better. At the end of the quarter, 11-20, with only 5 field goals scored out of 18 taken.
«And my feet are shaking. He tells me that I am unknown. Let’s see what he tells me next.
Second quarter
Those from Illumbe were taking the colors out of the people from Palencia, or they were leaving them “discolored.” Granting facilities, leaving the visitors a field in which they usually dominate, such as rebounding.
Wintering changed the tone and face of the team a little, with the help of Oroz, defending. But the advantage was already at 10 points. Timeout by Sergio García for the San Sebastián team who continued to leave the Palencia defense in their underwear, generating free shots to add new triples.
If the Palencia team stayed in the game it was because of Wintering: “Like a watering can that the grass makes it sprout again.” But it will be for water and green in San Sebastián…
Defense throughout the field to try to nullify those in white who were doing almost everything. Not even with those. 12 down, suffering from the harassment of the Gipuzkoans’ defense, losing balls… With five to play, Kunkel comes on. But the team was gone. When they didn’t give up a basket, they gave up a foul. Lezkano timeout. «Don’t think I’m running away. If you see me go back, wait. I’m taking a career. “Challenge the perspective of failure.” A very palpable failure: 19-38 and the first loud whistles in the pavilion.
The Basque team at Palencia was sizzling. Sergio García’s men were exploiting all the local demerits and extracting oil from their fortresses, which were many in the face of a dismasted Super Agropal. Even when the purple ones took a foul, they then conceded a technique, like Vrankic. “I screw up, I’m shivering again!” 24-44.
“It’s a piece of cake!” What Guille Jiménez would say. Not even the free throws went in. The best thing that could happen to Palencia was that the break came, which was achieved with that score and with a screw up in three-point shots. 0 out of 8. On the team, not a single player was saved. Only Wintering and Armus had a rating of five, and all of them were negative in the +/-.
Third quarter.
«No, it was just a moment of descent! “Nothing happens here! Nothing happens! Nothing happens!” The purple dressing room would be conjured during the break while Extremoduro was playing in the pavilion.
Wintering scored, as in the beginning, the first. His four meter shot. Armus blocked the Basque reply and Borg claimed a foul that the referees did not call on the counterattack. What had not changed was the null, non-existent, success from 6.75. To top it all off, a technical to Lezkano after a Palencia recovery.
All wrong. The refereeing decisions did not help the epic that Palencia wanted to print. “The Sun doesn’t look at me, it doesn’t look at me.”
Second technical on Lezkano for protesting a foul that was not called on Wintering? They “applied the anti-terrorist law” to him, as he would say.
The pavilion became very hot. “Out, out.” The fouls called on Palencia doubled those received. But the truth is that it was no excuse. Or not the main one. 21 down that became 24. No ideas. No success, no luck.
“There was even more, what a nightmare.” Jakovics was injured in his wrist. A small reaction from Palencia left the score below 20 behind with Alberto Padilla at the controls. Timeout by Sergio García so that the people from Palencia did not believe in the comeback with 12 minutes left.
Difficult when mainstays like Borg, Jakovics or Kamba were on zero points. Only Manu had managed to score from beyond the arc.
At the end of the quarter: 39-60.
Last Quarter.
Kunkel, 30 seconds into the fourth quarter, hit his first triple.
The American carried the equipment on his back, if only to cover up the obscene score. But it wasn’t just a little dust here and dust there. It was something else because the purple ones were placed among the chaos, nine points behind with seven minutes left and with Kunkel on a high. Time out for the people of San Sebastián. The “Yes we can” sounded in the Municipal. «I perform miracles, I turn water into wine. “I come back to life if I make a joint.”
With Kunkel retired to rest, night fell again for the team. “Stiff. I’m still all stiff. “The same trajectory.” Falling. Disadvantage again at 14 points with 4.30 to play. Padilla timeout.
Borg gave another breath of air with a triple, his fifth. Padilla went all out with Kunkel and Wintering on the team when there was no longer an option. Two minutes left, 14 down.
Minutes for the trash. «Let them bury me with my dick on the outside. So that a mouse can eat it.
Painful defeat, like the other one of the season at home against Alicante. Not only because of the result, but because of the way in which Super Agropal did it. Without any option to win. All bitter chaos. 64-76.
Among the purples, the top scorer, Kunkel, with 19 points; 13 of them in the fourth quarter. Also MVP, purple, with 15 items, half as many as the MVP of the game, Varela, with thirty.
Next game, before Saturday against Fuenlabrada, in Madrid.
