Betis managed to qualify for the final of the ascent phase to the Endesa League thanks to the good work Mark Hughes Before his exequipo, the students, whom he dynamited with an epic individual performance that came out with 28 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 robberies for 41 valuation digits.
From the start showed the Andalusian side that his offensive idea went to score from afar. In this way their First four baskets fell from the perimeter, three of them in three attempts from Hughes. That rhythm of frantic success served to take the rival with his tongue, which only managed to get back into the match between the first and the second quarter, when the green and white were six minutes without scoring field shots.
Betis opened distance
A point, Bisschop Brooks' work, was the only positive thing they added in that section in which the students of the Uruguayan Joaquín Rodríguez, author of five points in a row before his club revived. The partial lasted until 9-1, at which time the triples re-entered him.
And from there the suffering of the host of the final to four was reproduced. Vitor Benite, Alex Renfroe, David Jelinek twice… All of them were invoicing from the long distance to leave the ten ten to the break despite scoring only four baskets of two, less than half than those transformed from three (32-42, m.20).
Students returned to the game
The collegiate team did not lose patience, confident that the storm would end before or after. Happened. Under the umbrella of Argentine Patricio 'Pato' Garino the Natxo Lezkano squad advanced until the sun came out with a 9-3 partial in which the Uruguayan veteran Jayson Granger had a lot to say, at that point already on.
His gesture of raising his arms to heaven spur to a hobby that was a majority and together they ended up stepping on the shore of the comeback near the closure of the third act. Not even a triple Aleksandar Cvetkovic turned off the Ansias of a students, who in half an hour seemed another despite having not been able to put ahead in the afternoon (60-64, m.30).
The battle was void in the initial bars of the decisive room Until the Madrid began to seriously threaten to collect advantage due to the lack of precision of the Andalusians. However, several options for this wasted; Attacks that went to limbo and even a free kick from Garino.
Hughes sentence from staff
That context gave confidence to the Betic Table, which entered in the last fifty -two seconds with five points of favorable income after Granger failed another release from the personnel line that had tied the contest. Most precise was the Uruguayan with a Triple in the absence of twenty seconds that reduced the distance to two (82-84, m.39).
Hughes, with two more free, turned off the fire and ended up opting the duel in favor of histhat the rise against flexar Fuenlabrada or the super agropal Palencia will be played. The students, on the other hand, will continue one more season in the hell of the silver category, of which it fails to escape no matter how much tried after its descent four years ago.
TECHNICAL SHEET – MOVISTAR STUDENTS 82 – BETIS 86
82 – Movistar Students (16+16+28+22): Granger (16), Schmidt (13), Rubio (-), Alderete (7), Kravic (8) -Cinco initial-, mud (7), Andric (2), Francis Alonso (9), Joaquín Rodríguez (11), Garino (9), alone (-).
86 – Betis (21+21+22+22): Renfroe (7), Hughes (28), López de la Torre (7), Suárez (-), de Beschop (5), -Era inic-, Olumuyiwa (2), Radoncic (9), Benite (10), Cvetkovic (6), Kasibabu (2), Jelinek (10).
Referees: Germán Morales, Víctor Mas and Juan Ramón Hurtado. They eliminated from personal offenses A de Bischopp (m.37) and Olumuyiwa (m.38).
Incidents: Semifinals of the Final to four first Feb played in the Magic Fund of Madrid against 6,000 spectators.
