La Bruixa d’Or falls in Murcia after a terrific 4th quarter
90 UCAM Murcia | San Miguel 7, Berni Rodríguez 6 Wood 15, Radovic 20 y Lima 12 ; Tillie 6, Ben Romdhane 3, Kelati 15, Davis 4 y Víctor Arteaga 2. 79 La Bruixa d’Or | Álex Hernández 1, Arco 2, Giannopoulos 11, Monroe 10 y Asselin 10; Creus 6, Eriksson 18, Oliver Arteaga 15, Goodridge i …
90 UCAM Murcia | San Miguel 7, Berni Rodríguez 6 Wood 15, Radovic 20 y Lima 12 ; Tillie 6, Ben Romdhane 3, Kelati 15, Davis 4 y Víctor Arteaga 2.
79 La Bruixa d’Or | Álex Hernández 1, Arco 2, Giannopoulos 11, Monroe 10 y Asselin 10; Creus 6, Eriksson 18, Oliver Arteaga 15, Goodridge i Kouguere 6.Partials: 18-18, 15-24; 23-19 i 34-18.
Referees: Miguel Ángel Pérez, Carlos Cortés i Rubén Sánchez Mohedas.
One of the hardest moments of the season arrives for The Golden Witch after the defeat in Murcia. The options are few for salvation after losing by 11 points with UCAM Murcia. The team dominated most of the game but fell apart in the last quarter in which Murcia were very successful .
The first period was more even for everyone. At the beginning , between teams exchange baskets with Asselin and starring Giannopoulos attack. Radovic was beginning what would be its festival scorer in this period, but then emerge from the Manresa an energetic and feisty Oliver Arteaga , one of the best visitors to tie the game with 5 points.
After 10 minutes , the thing look much better for The Golden Witch , who took part in 9 points. Eriksson scored 14 points in the second quarter and was the architect of the distance between the teams . Greek Giannopoulos and continued contributing Monroe tried to add , but did not end up on the U.S. .
In the third quarter , the Golden Witch tried to keep the gap at the beginning, with Asselin and crosses from the triple (2 of 2). At this moment, however, Tillie from within and outside of Wood to be added to start Radovic force decline Manresa .
The last quarter was forgettable : 34 points scored were too . Although Arteaga resist at the beginning , with Giannopoulos , Kelati , Wood and Radovic celebrated a festival that left the Golden Witch 3 victories of Murcia , and the average against. The final triple Thomas Kelati put the icing on 10 minutes , unless there is a revival of the team was second to last sentence .
Peter Romero, spoke at the press conference after the match: ” It was a game with 30 minutes where we dominated and we controlled the game from Murcia, but from Murcia and recovering lost balls by two of our a silly way we have condemned ; we have not read the important moments and had to be our game ; we made bad decisions from the bench , the team was uncontrolled in the final moments . “