UEMC Valladolid: Third Loss – Catatonic Performance

A lot to work on. Much to correct. A lot to convince. Much to transmit. UEMC Baloncesto Valladolid took the knee again. Newton’s third Law, forced after the hard setback suffered at home four days before against Caja 87, did not appear in Córdoba against a leader, who was hurt in his pride after his only defeat days before in Logroño.

The expected reaction did not come, among other reasons, because David Barrio’s team not only collapsed again in attack with that extreme dependence on an erratic Pau Isern, who monopolizes the entire game and inspiration, but also because his softness in defense, especially in the small ones, left him marked out by a rival who did not hesitate to bet everything, absolutely everything, on the triple. First, at the hands of an unstoppable Black, incomprehensibly the author of 22 of his team’s 43 points at halftime. Then by Orozco, Bello and Stienche, who joined the carousel of Córdoba triples.

Again, and the most worrying thing is that it is not the first time, a hesitant and above all intermittent UEMC Baloncesto Valladolid was seen that, despite staying alive making the rubber throughout the game, was never able to deliver the final blow on the Municipal Vista Alegre parquet, among other things due to its complacency from midfield to the back.

The purple team once again missed the contribution of Haney, again slow on his legs, erratic and diluted for many, too many minutes. UEMC’s wake-up call would not come until the last quarter after hitting rock bottom with the biggest disadvantage of the match. The score of 67-52 with 8.16 to go finally woke up the impassive David Barrio’s team.

The team, as if it were an episode of the movie ‘Awakenings’ starring Robert De Niro (patient) and Robin Williams (doctor), reacted with spasms like the miraculous dopamine in the movie in a catatonic team. Because if during the first three quarters he resurrected up to three times, erasing ten points against in the blink of an eye, in the last act he got into the game when everything seemed to be seen with eight minutes left for the conclusion.

Isern and Haney put the team on their backs to reach the UEMC against nature and surprisingly alive with 20 seconds left by placing themselves four points away at 80-76. But a timeout by Córdoba allowed the ball to reach Orozco, who took over from Black in the second half to kill the game definitively from the free throw line (82-76), making useless the dopamine effect on the intermittent UEMC Baloncesto Valladolid, which fit with a pyrrhic final basket by Ordóñez (82-78) (his third loss of the season, three in the last four games) to open his first big question of the season. season.