EValencia Basket whirlwindfierce in defense, confident in attack and again commanded by the Dominican Jean Monterodismantled this Thursday A DUBITATIVE LA LAGUNA TENERIFE, which returns home with a 2-0 in the semifinals of the Endesa League and forced to win three games in a row to be in the final.
The script of the match had some similarity with Tuesday. The Canarian team started but Valencia did not flinch, firmly executed its party plan And when a few minutes later he put ahead there was no way that Tenerife stopped him. The 'taronja' set that had never won the first two games of a semifinal, already caresses the final and reinforces its candidacy.
Brancou Badio makes an entrance to the basket.
There was no variation in the initial quintet of Valencia Basket but in that of the Canary Islands. In his 700 party on an ACB bench, Txus Vidorreta opted as news for Scrubb on the outer line in a place of a David Kramer who stayed out of the game and by Yannis Morin inside in the place of Gio Shermadini.
He went well because five points from Thomas Scrubb gave Tenerife's initiative. In addition, from the beginning, the Basque tried play with the anxiety of Valencia by raising alternative defenses. It cost almost four minutes to the locals to write down and It was Montero who cleared the horizon With five other points in a row. But from there he no longer stopped doing it.
15-0 visitor and partial drought
The balance broke the rotation, which uneven from the local side. Matt Costello, Xabi López Arostegui and Larrea completed a 15-0 partial that dynamited the script. A dead time of Videreta did not change the panorama. Almost seven minutes ate the visiting team without scoringvictim of local aggressive defense but also of his own errors in the shot. The example: the two failed free throws by Jaime Fernández. Almost all the dolls were seized.
Bruno Fitipaldo was almost the only one who was not afraid. The Uruguayan tried to endure his own but Valencia had taken confidence and He closed the first quarter with a 23-5 that knocked out the islanders. Vidorreta continued to search for solutions and opted for a quintet of little ones, with Aaron Doornekamp and shelter as 'large' to improve its zone 2-3.
Bruno Fitipaldo throws a triple.
The aurinegro team improved and Four Triple of Fitipaldo allowed him to get some game But Pedro Martínez reacted quickly and returned to the track to Nate Sestina, who with a couple of triples contained the reaction. The unexpected appearance of the Dominican Joel Soriano in the local interior game, sent visitors again (40-24, m.16).
Lluis Costa, another secondary actor, threw himself into Tenerife on his back With ten points almost in a row, but the Decoo of Catalan had little prize. A triple of Of Larrea He cut his best moment and one more, almost unlikely, Montero on the horn of the break allowed the locals to go to the costumes with their maximum income (55-35, m.20).
The triples end up sentencing
Tenerife started with two triples, one from Fitipaldo and one from Marcelinho Huertas, who like Shermadini had not scored in the first part. It seemed that there was hope for visitors but two triple from Matt Costello, another from Sestina and one from Montero, they sent him back to the canvas (71-46, m. 26).
Again it appeared Costa, this time with Morin's help, to make up his disadvantage. Came to go down to 16 Already having a ball, but another montero basket on the horn of the room gave another sake to visitors when he had barely stood up.
Angry by the downturn of his, Pedro Martínez called them to order and Between Chris Jones and Jaime Pradilla they returned to the lane to the whirlwind 'Taronja' And Valencia no longer stopped, He spent the 100 points again and matched his triple record again in the playoff when he reached 16.
Technical file
105.- Valencia Basket (23+32+20+30): Montero (20), Badio (7), Ojeleye (3), Pradilla (9), Reuvers (4) -Cinco titular- de Larrea (6), Jones (10), López-Arostegui (9), Puerto (2), Sestina (12), Soriano (11) and Costello (12).
74.- Laguna Tenerife (10+25+22+17): huertas (8), sastre (-), scrubb (7), doornekamp (-), shermadini (-) –Cinco titular- jaime fernández (-), fitipaldo (22), costa (19), kostadinov (2), abromaitis (2) y morin (7).
Referees: Peruga, jiménez y oyón. Sin eliminados.
Incidents: Second Semifinal Party of the Endesa League played in La Fonteta against 7,746 spectators.
