Real Madrid put the 2-0 in the Endesa League final against Valencia Basket after a duel in which he needed to win an extension and the best version of his two bases, the Argentine Facundo Campazzo, who ended with 18 points and 19 digits of valuation, and the Dominican Andrés Feliz, author of two decisive triples in extra time.
After imposing himself in the first of the duels of the final, to the best of five, the white team pursued a new triumph that allowed him not only to leave the duties done to the city of Turia, but also close a complete league course undefeated as a local, as long as he did not touch to face a last resistance test as an indested fifth game.
And he left very toned, just as he left the confrontation that opened the series and that he sentenced in the last quarter. The Madrid side appeared in the high parquet of pulsations and with a partial of 11-2 in four and a half minutes, opening the fire Alberto Abalde with five points in a row.
All this was while Valencia Basket did not enter the triples. Because when he began to see the ring from afar like the crater of a volcano, he erupts. Josep Puerto failed the first two exterior attempts and from there, change of dynamics, writing down the group of Pedro Martínez 7 of the following 11 that he tried until the end of the first quarter. Overpass by the situation, Real Madrid suddenly saw a 1-17 against which he left his great beginning (22-25, m.10).
Technical file
Real Madrid-Valencia, 102-96
102 -Real Madrid (22+26+21+20+13): Camparazzo (18), Abad (10), Hezonja (13), Ndiaye (4), Tavares (9) -Initial Scan -Llull (2), Garuba (10), Happy (14), Bruno Fernando (10), Musa (12).
96-Valencia Basket (25+20+23+21+7): Montero (23), Badio (5), Port (-), Pradilla (4), Reuvers (11) -Initrus-, Jones (9), López-Aróstegui (14), Soriano (3), Costello (16), De Larrea (-), Jovic (6), Sestin (5).
Referees: Emilio Pérez Pizarro, Óscar Perea and Francisco Araña. Without eliminated.
Incidents: Second match of the Endesa League final, played at the Movistar Arena in Madrid against 11,142 spectators. In the previous one, a minute of silence was kept in memory of Sergio Nieto, partner number 1 of Real Madrid, after his death.
The bewilderment had continuity at the start of the second act, where they continued to govern triples to experience a maximum disadvantage of nine points in 29-38, when everything was ash. However, in adversity, there was resurgence. An 8-0 partial put them again in the fight and, from there, the one that began to suffer was the 'Taronja' painting.
Matt Costello, Chris Jones and Jean Montero kept him momentarily afloat, but before a rival released more than that to survive until the break. In full boiling, the relaxation did not lower the rhythm and closed the room with a 7-0 that spoke more of his best sensations than of a clear superiority (48-45, m.20).
The break came well to Valencia Basket to clarify his ideas and reset, which facilitated him very intense to clearly control the section of the rebounds and also be successful in the shot. Against another team that would have earned him, perhaps, to break the game; But this time was not the case.
The prize, not little, was to face the last act fully in the face of a host that worked in bursts but did not lose the concentration, closing ten minutes without losses and supplying with its fineness in the short distances the problems it had when I tried luck from the perimeter (69-68, m.30).
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The decisive room began in an unbeatable way of orange, acquiring a favorable income of nine points after a 4-14 in which six of them arrived in the painting by the hand of a Nate Reuvers that did not have too many problems to score them before a somewhat tender defense, which was not effective to avoid two triples of Costello and Montero.
He took his own from the abyss Facundo Campazzo. The Argentine, who has arrived at the playoffs at a sweet moment, did not hesitate to throw himself into the team, lighting the stands with points, recoveries and an assistance to triple happy Andrés after driving crazy to the Valencian rear. A moment of collective happiness that only cooled another triple, again from Costello, and left the end open (87-88, m.37).
After failing Xabi López-Arostegui one of his free Sergio Llull, with a beautiful penetration terminated with a tray, left the match tied to 89 in the absence of eight seconds. The possibility of winning it with a basket was presented to Valencia Basket, but Jean Montero erred his distant launch and the outcome was in the hands of the extension.
Real Madrid vs Valencia Basket: The photos of the second game of the final
The extra time began with four triples. Three arrived in origin from the Dominican Republic, two of happy and one from Montero, and the fourth scored by Usman Garuba, leaving the local victorious team of the battle of snipers and with six points of favorable rent, which were eight after two free of Mario Hezonja with which theirs reached the hundred points (100-92, m.40+3).
Everything is over there. Cabizbajo El Valencia for the bitter feeling of the lost opportunity, could not approach less than four to end up succumbing with honor but without prize. Now it will be the most difficult yet, winning three duels in a row to an opponent who has only lost one of the last thirty.
