Who will win the Endesa Malaga 2025 Supercopa? Will it be the host Unicaja? Will it be the new rich Valencia Basket? Will it always aspiring to all Real Madrid? Or will it be the cover, but the Tenerife Laguna? … The truth is that the prognosis seems very open for a competition that will be played this weekend, September 27 and 28, in the José María Martín Carpena sports palace. The appointment will start on Saturday at 6 pm, with the first semifinal, Unicaja-Valencia Basket; while for the 21st hours the second “semi” will be played Real Madrid and Laguna Tenerife.
It seems that we are facing a great basketball weekend. The four teams arrive in Malaga with serious motifs to dream With raising Sunday, at about 9 pm, to the sky of Malaga, the Supercopero trophy. This is how the four applicants are presented.
Unicaja
Just arrived from winning the Intercontinental Cup of Singapore, the Unicaja faces the Super Cup as host and defender of the title, now achieved a year ago in the Murcia 2024 edition.
A Favor: Unicaja can boast its obvious competitive gene, which has allowed you to play 8 finals and win 7 titles in the last 31 months. Playing in “House” has not traditionally been help, but it is true that having the carpena mostly in favor can be a push to the team in the worst moments of play or when the rival plus tightens. Arriving with three official matches in Singapore can allow the team to be Something more shot than its three rivalswhich will release the 2025/2026 season in Malaga.
Against: The image of the team in Singapore, despite the victory, has been that of a team still in the construction phase. There is a long way to go and the demand that will be raised in this Super Cup may be greater than the Unicaja is trained to respond at this time, at the end of September. The four signings are still looking for their place in the team and that minimizes the strength of a template that has lost its three top scorers of the past year: Dylan Ostkowski, Tyson Carter and Kameron Taylor. From the “curse of carpena” we better not talk …
Valencia Basket
The new Valencia Basket 25/26 is a team that will aspire to this course to everything that plays. He current runner -up of the Endesa League, That this season will play the Euroleague, arrives in Malaga ready for everything.
A Favor: Valencia has formed a template in which there are no fissures. 15 first -level players, with talent in all positions and guided by a Pedro Martínez who always magic with his projects. In this preseason he has shown continuity to the idea of the game of the past year, with a quick basketball, with good ball circulation, with many three -point shots and that loads the rebound in the two baskets.
Against: Have six new players invite you to think Missing time for Valencia to reach its cruise speed facing this next course. In addition, a good part of his squad has been in the Eurobasket and many players have joined the preseason work. However, its main mole in the face of this Super Cup are the absences due to injury of Xavi López Arostegi, Brancou Badio and, above all, Jean Monteroits franchise player.
Real Madrid
Sergio Scariolo's new project The season starts as an aspiring to all the titles you dispute. The first will be the Endesa Super Cup of Malaga, a competition that is especially good for the white team, which has won six of the last seven editions, all except the last year in Murcia.
A Favor: Real Madrid has a plantill, with Scariolo in front. His image in the preseason has been very good, with convincing victories against Alba Berlin, Unicaja or Baskonia, to give some examples. They arrive at this event from Malaga in good dynamics. For many, they are the rival to beat.
Against: It is a team with many novelties and that can take its toll in these first weeks of the season. TThey have little to win and much to lose in the Super Cup, If things do not go well. They are forced, at least, to win the Tenerife and be in the final, a pressure that can take its toll.
The Tenerife lagoon
The Canarian team arrives as The cover of this Super Cup, although their trajectory of these last seasons also makes them aspiring even the title, although it is true that It would be a surprise to be the canaries who lift the supercopero trophy To the Malaga sky, next Sunday.
A Favor: His great advantage in this Super Cup is that They have zero pressure. Of the four applicants, they are the one who has the least obligation to win it. And that can help them play released. Another great endorsement to face this tournament is that the hard core of its template has been playing together for many years, something that can give them advantage in these first weeks of the season, with very admitted game systems and very internalized automatisms. They also have in favor that this season they have a greater closet fund than in preceding campaigns.
Against: Real Madrid has touched him in the semifinals, the great favorite? His rival has played since 2017 all Super Cup finals and it will not be easy to take away that privilege in this 2025 edition. Tenerife will need to play a very good game on Saturday, but also that Real Madrid is not fine and plays below the level that its template has. Player per player, Real Madrid is a better team, but …
First ACB title
From Saturday you will see who arrives better to the first title of the season. The four applicants have real options to dream of being the champions. Only he who is able to win two games will take the prize.
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