Barça reaches a new final against Madrid with suffering

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Barca or Madrid will raise this Sunday Basketball King’s Cup. There has been no other champion in the last 12 years. But his path to the final (18.30, #Vamos) has been totally the opposite. The barca suffered much more than expected to be able to defend the title won a year ago at the Wizink Center, more than the final score against the UCAM Murcia (103-90). Much more comfortable was the white victory in the semifinal.

After living on the edge for 32 minutes, even looking down on the scoreboard, the barca he had to make a show of character to move on. Kuric, with 11 of his 14 points, he appeared providential in the last quarter, supporting the leadership of mirotic (15 points, 8 rebounds) of the second half.

There is only one scenario where the UCAM Murcia he can present a battle to Barça and it involves getting his rival out of the game, unhinging him, turning the dispute over each ball into a battle. In that territory, the team of Alonso Site feels strong, much more comfortable than the azulgranas, because it has seasoned players, with character, seasoned in a thousand battles like Lima, Radovic or Rojas. And furthermore, the Murcian cadre of gamers such as McFadden Taylor or Davis.

The barca managed to display his game in the first quarter, making use of his success in the triples (6/8), with a laprovittola highly effective. Thus he managed to complete 10 sensational minutes, which presaged a more or less placid semifinal, his advantages up to 16 points (32-16). But as the game got tense, with harsh fouls, protests and some technique, Jasikevicius’s players lost control and UCAM gained confidence and took over the stage.

Rival grown in confidence

So they appeared McFadden and Taylor with his triples and also an unexpected cat to turn the second partial into an ordeal for the Barcelona fans, who faded away, while the tension of Jasikevicius with his own players for not following his game plan. The consequence was that the Murcia he shielded his confidence and left a score totally open at halftime (55-49) with which he generated, at the same time, many doubts in his rival. The bad sensations did not leave the Barcelona fans in a third quarter in which Tomore Beauties took over the operations and led UCAM to lead by up to five points (67-72). mirotic He had to come to the rescue to return control and pulsations to Barça (73-72).

With the Murcia fully immersed in the game, the game became an agonizing exchange of blows in the two baskets, which the Barcelona players managed to take to their field with suffering, but based on gritting their teeth in defense, and the providential appearance of Kuric who chained 8 almost consecutive points and opened a gap through which Barça could sneak in with all the suffering in the world in the final.

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