Be Almansa played his best game in the U League. The center of the Real Madrid ended with 22 points and 3 rebounds (23 PIR) in the white team’s victory against the CB Canary Foundation (81-62), the ninth (9-3) for Javi Juárez’s team in the new Under-22 competition. The Murcian also had a good shooting record: he scored 6/11 in shots from two, one of the two triples he attempted and did not miss from the free throw (7/7).
The Latvian Gunnars Grinvalds He was the other Madrid player who surpassed ten points (13), although Rodrigo Rioja ended with the best +/-: +17 in just 11 minutes on the track and without missing a shot (8 with 2/2 in triples, included). The Canarian team is going through a bad time. After knocking down Barça on the second day and leading the classification of their group, they have gone into a tailspin and are now chaining four losses in a row. Xabier López was their top scorer, although he ended up with a bad shooting percentage: 11 points and 12 reboundsbut 2/12 in shots of two. The Tenerife team was not good in long-distance shots (8/30 from beyond 6.75), although Madrid was also infected with that poor aim (8/27).
Fundación Canarias started ahead, but deflated after 10-9 (minute four) and closed the first round with an 11-2 runwhich made the game somewhat difficult for them (21-11). After a second quarter with few points (13-12), Madrid maintained the advantage at half-time (34-23) and at the end of the third quarter (58-44) to give a definitive victory in the last period, where Serigne Sarr income exceeded twenty (81-60).
With two days left until the end of the first phase, Real Madrid is third in its group behind Casademont Zaragoza (victory on Friday against Valencia Basket, 90-75, their seventh straight win) and Barçawho scored the Catalan derby on the court of youth (75-91). The Barça team had to come back (23-15), but at half-time they were already ahead on the scoreboard (37-40). Then everything got better for those of Alvaro Salinaswho came to go 17 up at the end of the third quarter (58-75).
Joaquim Boumtje Boumtjea 16-year-old American power forward 2.11 meters tall, was once again the best with 26 points (5/8 in triples) and 11 rebounds for a PIR of 37. And again, good minutes to Mohamed Dabonethe jewel of the Barça youth team who, at just turned 14, finished with 19 goals and 8 rebounds (22 in rating). In La Penya, the best was Matej Bubena 16-year-old Czech power forward, who finished with 18 points and a -1 in the +/-, despite the fact that he was on the court for more than 26 minutes.
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