Another Euroleague team loses in Zaragoza

Casademont Zaragoza beat Valencia Basket at the hands of a great Christian Mekowulu and ended the four-win streak that the ‘taronja’ team had accumulated, which allows them to put a distance of four wins over relegation and see how their threat diminishes significantly. The Nigerian center catapulted his team to victory with a great performance and finished the game with 25 points, 9 rebounds and a PIR of 36 but it was also a choral triumph because the rest of the team accompanied the African effectively.

In addition to clearly moving away from dangerous positions in the classification the victory over the Levantine team entails the option of thinking about fighting to reach the European competition since last season it was disputed by the first twelve classified. The Aragonese team, with the victory against one of the teams from the upper zone, confirms its good moment, which has led it to win five of the last seven games it has played, which has allowed it to make an important leap in the standings up to the point of changing the objective of avoiding relegation for that of playing continental competition.

The first quarter had a lot of rhythmwith both teams trying to score quickly and with a great success from the owners of the land that made 73% of field goalsof which 18 points were in the paint and that, even so, did not help them to go ahead in the electronic with an important advantage as it might seem (24-22).

In the second quarter, the success of the hand decreased but the visitor did not grow, so the situation on the scoreboard did not vary excessively since Casademont Zaragoza made up for this loss with a good defense against a Valencia that put the ‘rojillos’ attacks in the most trouble also as shown by the fact that they went to rest with ten losses, six in the second act. The equality was also maximum after the refresh time with continuous basket exchanges with Christian Mekowulu for the locals and Bojan Dubljevic for the visitors, competing in hits.

Porfirio Fisac’s team saved the best for the last quarter in which they Mekowulu continued to uncover the jar of essences, well seconded by Marcel Ponitka. The success of the pivot pushed his team and made the differences that had been meager throughout the game begin to grow, reaching a maximum of 12 points (77-65) with four minutes to go. Casademont Zaragoza knew how to handle the rent well against a Valencia that wanted to but couldn’t. It was the night for Mekowulu, who achieved his best numbers since he arrived in Zaragoza, and for his team.