The Badalona Joventut has done his homework. The team arrived at the last day depending on itself to be sixth and has fulfilled. In a difficult track like that of Unicaja in Malaga, the Penya has demonstrated a great level and in a great last quarter the game has been taken, thus ensuring 6th in the regular phase of the Endesa League.
The greenish, in addition, were also pending the upper part of the table, where Laguna Tenerife and Valencia Basket disputed the second and third place. There, Tenerife needed to beat the Manresa track to ensure being 2nd. However, The Tenerife defeat and the comfortable victory of Valencia at home against Breogán have caused a change in the classification.
Thus, at the end of the day and, therefore, of the regular season of the Endesa League, The Play-Off box has been as follows: Madrid will face Baskonia, Valencia will do so against Gran Canaria, Laguna Tenerife will play against the Joventut Badalona in an MVPS duel (Marcelinho Huertas- against Tomic) and, finally, Unicaja will play its series against Barça. Some qualifiers that begin next Monday, June 2.
Dotson leads the comeback
Thanks to a final sensational room, the Penya has achieved its restraint. He has done so thanks to the inspiration of Devon Dotson, who with 18 points has been the best of his team, in a partial of 19-29 in the last period. Of course, it seemed that those of Dani Miret would take the game comfortably, but Unicaja and the carpena has pressed to put an equality that in the end The Verdinegros have managed to solve (78-83).
With this victory, what Dreamland Gran Canaria did, because the sixth place was already from Joventut. Likewise, players trained by Jaka Lakovic have fallen at home against UCAM Murcia (69-76)confirming that they end sevenths in the classification.
Finally, the duel in the upper part was between Valencia and Tenerife. The Valencians have passed over Breogán (108-61) and have passed the pressure to Tenerife. And despite fighting it until the end, Those of Txus Vidorreta have lost on the Manresa track (86-83)leaving that way The second place for Pedro Martínez's team. For its part, despite the victory, Manresa has finished tenth because Murcia has also won her encounter.
Full of visiting victories
This final day has had an earlier shift, which He started at 6:30 p.m. In that turn, the four visiting teams have won their respective games: Barça, Madrid, Baskonia and Morabanc Andorra They have closed their regular season with victory. In the case of the Andorranos, the team has said goodbye to this course with a 77-89 win on the track of Covirán Granada.
The other three have defeated their meetings, but they still have play-off. Barça has won on the Bilbao Basket track (68-85)Madrid has done it at Casa del Zaragoza (89-105) and Baskonia on the Coruña track (101-105). After the regular phase, the eight classified already focus their attention on the quarterfinals of the Play-Off for the ACB title.
Some qualifiers that will begin the Monday, June 2 with Valencia Basket – Gran Canaria (7:00 p.m.) and Tenerife – Joventut Badalona (21:15). Meanwhile, the other two series will begin On Tuesday, June 3. At 7:00 p.m., Real Madrid – Baskonia already 9:15 p.m., Unicaja – Barça. It should be remembered that these quarterfinals will be decided to the best of three games.
