ACB League | Bàsquet Girona certifies its permanence in the ACB

Marc Gasol’s team will continue one more season in the highest category of Spanish basketball

Aíto García Reneses’ team beat Casademont Zaragoza with suffering after two extensions (88-95)

He Bàsquet Girona will continue in the ACB League the next season. His triumph was achieved with a plus of drama if the situation was not already dramatic in itself. Aíto García Reneses’s men beat Casademont Zaragoza 88-95 in a match of maximum tension that required two extensions to certify the victory of the Catalan team.

It was the clear objective of the team after being promoted to the Endesa League this season and with the help of Marc Gasol in the presidency and as leader on the court, and with the veteran coach García Reneses on the bench they achieved what from the outset was a chimera for the entity.

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After having managed to stay in the highest category of Spanish basketball, the last league match that Girona will play on their court against Cazoo Baskonia will be a real party where all the fans will be able to celebrate together with the players the long-awaited permanence.

The losing streak is broken

Aito García Reneses’s team broke the streak of three consecutive defeats that they had accumulated at the best possible moment because the victory saved them from relegation in a mathematical way without having to be aware of other results.

The Catalan team suffered to take the victory of the Aragonese capital in a game in which their need was stronger than the desire of Casademont Zaragoza to say goodbye to their fans with a win.

The Aragonese team began the match with more success than their rival, soon took off on the scoreboard and reached a difference of up to 8 points on several occasions, although as the minutes went by the visiting defense worked better.

Zaragoza, ‘clueless’

Casademont had more trouble scoring, to the point that in the last four and a half minutes they only managed two points, which allowed Girona to adjust the score at the end of the first quarter (17-15).

Aíto’s team took advantage of the fact that Casademont Zaragoza continued to be confused at the beginning of the second set and very unsuccessful in the triples (he arrived at halftime with one scored from 15 attempts) to turn the score around and have up to four rental points (27-31, m.16), although when he arrived at halftime Porfirio Fisac’s men were ahead (35-33).

Girona once again had an advantage, Casademont responded and took the lead again. There was a three-point duel between both teams that ended with the visitors entering the last ten minutes two points up (55-57).

Two triples by John Jenkins and a basket of two by Máximo Fjellerup in a minute and a half at the beginning of the last quarter launched Girona up to their maximum advantage of the match (55-65), but the locals reacted with an 8-0 in two and a half minutes with Howard Sant-Roos as the stiletto who tightened the score again (68-67).

to extension

In a very intense final stretch, Girona once again took the lead, but a three-pointer from Stefan Jovic with 27 seconds remaining sent the game into extra time, as the Catalan team missed their last possession.

In extra time there was another alternation on the scoreboard and the hand team managed to tie with three tenths to go with two free throws scored by Tryggvi Hlinason.

The good start of the second extension by Aito’s team was decisive.or, since they were placed six points up (85-91) in two minutes and Casademont Zaragoza could not respond