COB attacks the track of Albacete and opens a safety margin (66-74)

It remains to arrange a straight line for the last ten days BREAD Gold and Ourense basketball club won in Albacete the right to work with a certain amount of calm — never enough — in the desire to remain in the stress-free category. It wasn’t the best day for the Cobistas in the shootout, but they knew how to make an effort in defense and tied an interestingly important victory: 66-74.

The match started with the initiative of the home team, imposing the rhythm, although without clear differences. On the contrary, it was Ourense’s back five who used their second unit and defensive turnaround to increase the margin from 0-11 and leave it on the scoreboard, although a late three-pointer from the native Ferrand closed the fourth at 16-22.

The cobista team focused again on the second act, which began with baskets by Urtasun and Manjgafić. The home team did not want to get out of the game and once again leveled the differences with a lead of 5-0, which is why Félix Alonso had to stop the game. Despite this, a little later Frano Pilepić’s three-pointer — the only one at the end for the Croats — increased the guests’ lead to 9 points, but that’s when the lights went out. 2 of 11 shooting for three was a brake that the home team used to go to halftime with figures 39-35 in their favor.

Returning to the track was worrying for PISTON, since Albacete’s first baskets opened the difference to 7 points. It was a mirage, the underdogs once again gritted their teeth in defense and fulfilled the tasks of the script that resulted in 8 consecutive baskets, which raised the electronics to 53-56, before the last ten minutes of the showdown.

By then, Txemi Urtasun had already taken command of his personality on the field, interpreting the rhythm of the game Félix Alonso asked him from the band. Good defensive work by Ourenses mitigated the lack of offensive references, and in any case, the visiting team managed better and came out unscathed from the roulette of free kicks in the last two minutes that stretched out in time. Triumph had already traveled with them.

ALBACETE (66): Blat (2), Knudsen (7), Ruiz de Carranza (4), Raitanen (8), Aurrecoechea (15) —starting five—, Ferrando (15), Dimakopoulos (0), Mejías (5) , Moreno (5), Santana (5).

COB (74): Peciukevicius (11), Pilepic (3), Nogués (5), Gjuroski (5), Kuath (10) —starting five—, Urtasun (12), Manjgafic (11), Williams (4), Ventura (5), Del Aguila (2), Aboubacar (2).

PARTS PER ROOM: 16-22, 23-13, 14-21 and 13-18.

THE JUDGES: Morales Ruiz, Langa de Martin, Arresa Quintero.

INCIDENTS: Pavilion of the park, in Albacete. Good atmosphere in a small facility for the 24th day of LEB Oro.