The outer triplet of the Valencia Basket What do they form Chris Jones, Brancou Badio and Jean Montero and the inner deployment of Jaime Pradilla They were too much for Laguna Tenerife and led to the 'Taronja' team to victory at the first meeting of the semifinals of the Endesa Leaguethat on Thursday will have its second appointment again in the Fonteta.
After a start marked by the speed of the premises and the success of Pradilla, Jones He gave Valencia the first option to break the clash but the Tenerife He could dodge the canvas thanks to an accurate Aaron Doornekamp. He had the Canary Islands Shot to tie after losing for 16 but erred and appeared Bahio to lift the locals and Montero To sentence.
David Kramer fights a ball with Josep Puerto and Matt Costello.
The meeting started in a Fonteta gala dressed, wanting to say goodbye to the ACB course before world Roig Arena and do it in style. In a not so distant horizon, the premises see the possibility of returning to the final of the Endesa Leaguein which they are not conquering the League in 2017.
The team of Pedro Martínez He had a clear match plan: running to wear the veteran Tenerife team. He made it at the beginning, although he did not enter the first shots, and also did it later, when Jaime Pradillaintense and mature, had already opened the aurinegro ring lid to give him command of the scoreboard.
To be able to run, the locals had before overwhelming Marcelinho. BRancou Badio and Sergio de Larrea They turned to defend him. In the other area, the Tenerife did not have to worry so much about Jean Monteroweighed by a blow to the right hand. The courage of Scrubb and of Morin allowed to Tenerife Do not fall apart in the first local Arreón.
Chris Jones with the ball against Jaime Fernández.
The game stopped with a rifirrafe between Pedro Martínez and Giorgi Shermadini that ended in nothing but that decentrated to Tenerife. He read it well Chris Jones that, inspired, fired the advantage of Valencia until he will be able to break the game before the break (45-29, m.18). Only a quality and claw deployment of Aaron Doornekamp allowed to Tenerife Avoid it (47-37, m.20).
On the return to the track, the Canadian continued adding exterior successes to keep his team nearby. In addition, the defense of Jones on Marcelinho It allowed the Brazilian to be more loose. The local advantage, which had looked at twenty points, was now only in three after a new triple of the power wing (53-50, m.25).
Had Jaime Fernández Triple to tie but erred it and the Valencia reacted. Did it by the hand of the always brave Bahiowho scored and generated for his teammates to recover confidence, including Montero. But this time the Canary Islands He was not expected to respond and Marcelinho y Bruno Fitipaldo They not only kept their own close but with good feelings (67-59, m.30).
With the beginning of the last quarter, the Dominican time came. Without remembering his right hand, he opened with his penetrations the visiting defense and undermined the moral of the visitors, who saw each other ten down. Had given Txus vidorreta some rest to Doornekamp And he had to recover, but it was already late (77-62, m.33).
The visiting coach asked for a dead time to play the last trick but two shots were left and with those two errors the game is over because the two teams began to think about the new battle of Thursday.
Technical file
83.- Valencia Basket (23+24+20+16): Montero (16), Badio (5), Ojeleye (3), Pradilla (14), Reuvers (4) -cinco titular- de Larrea (7), Jones (14), López-Arostegui (2), Puerto (5), Sestina (6), Soriano (-) and Costello (7).
65.- Laguna Tenerife (19+18+22+6): Huertas (18), sastre (2), kramer (3), doornekamp (17), shermadini (3) -Cinco titular- Jaime fernández (-), fitipaldo (11), costa (), scrubbb (7), kostadinov (-), kostadinov (-) (2) Y yorin (2).
Referees: García González, Serrano and Sánchez Sixto. Without eliminated.
Incidents: First semifinal match of the Endesa League played in La Fonteta against 7,453 spectators.
