The UCAM Murcia scored a more than solvent triumph against the Dreamland Gran Canaria at home (69-76) that allows him to close the regular league as ninth in the classification, leaving the yellow team anchored in the seventh place, which will lead him to measure himself in the playoffs to Valencia Basket.
The Swedish Luke Hakanson, with 15 points, was the most prominent at the statistical level of visitors, deactivating the 13 of Argentine Nico Brussino and the 12 of the American Caleb Homesley, in the yellow ranks.
And that the yellow ones took the crash handle in the first bars, with an inspired Brussino that scored 8 points in the first three minutes of the crash (12-5).
The visiting coach, Sito Alonso, asked for dead time to break the island inertia, something he achieved. Even with the triples of Gates and Hakanson, combined with baskets under the hoop of Ennis and Birgander, Murcia got around the scoreboard (14-15) and now force Jaka Lakovic's tactical pause.
Interestingly, after the technical stop, the Dreamland hooked a partial 7-0, with Homesley and hair of protagonists (21-15), having to break the Murcia drought Kostas Antekounmpo with a mate. However, Homesley scored the last of the first quarter, which closed with a 23-17 that left with an initial flavor to the islands.
In the second assault, Sant-Roos and Diagne returned to the load, once again taking the pattern in the electronic (26-29). The Gran Canaria tried to compensate with Thomasson and Tobey (32-32) but in a final arreón of the university students, the UCAM went to the costume tunnel with a five-point rent (32-37).
In the resumption, the thing became even better to Murcia, which in two sets of Ennis and Birgander reached the dozen (32-42), although the Granca unlocked with the success of Shurna in the perimeter and Conditt in the painting (44-47).
A triple Homesley sharpened with a triple the clash 47-49), but immediately Hakanson was taken from the joker the reply from the outside to give oxygen to the Murcia with a partial 1-9 that allowed him to enjoy a 10-point advantage (48-58).
Already in the last quarter, the island short circuit extended a few more minutes, promoting that the UCAM reached 15 difference (49-64). An already placid overview for visitors, who knew how to contemplate a rival already drifting, with a hemorrhage of 20 points (55-75).
In the end the yellow sweetened the defeat against a Murcia that closes the season with good sensations (69-76), while the Claretian team-seventh in the classification-will now face the quarterfinals of the ACB against Valencia Basket.
Technical file
69. Dreamland Gran Canaria (23+9+16+21): Albicy (-), Thomasson (7), Brussino (13), Shurna (5) and Tobey (7) -quintetus titular-; Homesley (12), Conditt (6), Samar (5), saved (2), Diop (-), Kljajic (8) and hairs (4).
76. UCAM Murcia (17+20+21+18): Kurucs (4), Gates (6), Hakanson (15), Ennis (7) and Birgander (6) -quintetus titular-; García (-), Sant-Roos (8), Radebauch (12), Falk (6), Diagné (8), Radoovic (2) and Antetokounmpo (2).
Referees: Benjamín Jiménez, Sergio Manuel and Carlos Merino. Without eliminated.
Incidents: Meeting corresponding to the thirtieth fourth and last day of the Endesa League played at the Gran Canaria Arena against 6,712 spectators. In the prolage of the clash, Andrew Albicy yellow of the Canary Islands Award 7-PEPE Moriana was delivered as the best player of the Claretian team in this campaign, awarded award after popular vote.
