2023-04-30 04:00:54
Pumarín’s parquet fulfilled the expected script and Alimerka Oviedo Baloncesto, diminished in their inside positions due to Arteaga’s injury, was easily defeated by the leader of the LEB Oro, Andorra. The only surprise came after the game was over, when the president of the OCB, Fernando Villabella, took the microphone to ask for an ovation for the injured captain and announced that his with the number 12 will be, at the end of this season, the first shirt withdrawn by the club.
“We all have to push together to end up meeting the objective,” Arteaga managed to say when the applause died down. That objective, that of permanence, will go through the last three games of the season, because yesterday, as feared, there was nothing to do. Andorra, physically and technically superior and stung by the last defeat at home, took no prisoners and celebrated the baskets furiously even when they were up thirty points.
And that thing didn’t start badly for Guillermo Arenas’ men, with Brown and Martí gritting their hearts out to stop Dos Anjos, like Lilliputians against Gulliver. Efforts on the rebound and a basket by Romeo Crouch made it 9-5 midway through the first quarter. The local advantage reached there.
The problems for the Ocebeista bench began early: the first set had not finished when Brown and Martí already had to sit down with two fouls per head. The new interiors of Oviedo, Pruitt and Domènech. The Joventut youth squad made the best performance of him, he was aggressive in defending the block and then, active in assists and determined to show the class he has. But Andorra, now with Maric for Dos Anjos in the area, was a power hammer. Once the paint was pierced, the visitors took advantage of the inside overmarking to move the ball outside and the three-pointers began to rain. Despite everything, the OCB avoided a total break at halftime (26-39).
The match ended at the start of the third quarter. In less than two minutes, Andorra went from 20 and did not stop tightening the screws at the back, turning each attack by Alimerka Oviedo into an ordeal. The first basket in play for the locals was a two plus one on a counterattack by Domènech at 1.44 minutes from the end of the quarter. Meanwhile, in attack Andric moved from side to side nailing triples everywhere.
The difference rose to 30 (29-59) and Oviedo’s score threatened to break negative records, but Guillermo Arenas’ squad did not stop fighting, they did not give up in their attempt to improve their feelings, they kept fighting and running. And the attack broke free to leave the final score in a decent 63-79. The local parish crosses its fingers so that Iraurgi does not beat Burgos today and continue out of the relegation places, and prepares for three heart-stopping days. To be saved by Oli.
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