After the infamy experienced two days ago, finally some drinkable basketball arrives to look at the current Intercontinental Cup. If Sao Paulo had a great time at the expense of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers (70-91), what was seen a while later was a shame turned into a basketball game. The Monastir almost did not appear, making us all participate in a real lack of respect for an hour and a half. Neither basketball nor will. Lenovo Tenerife, an excellent team, had no problem breaking a score, 112-42, which alone should force FIBA to turn the competition around.
Although too easily, Paulistas and Laguna made good forecasts that practically took their presence in tonight’s final for granted (8:00 p.m., TDP). They could have saved the paperwork on Friday, but now it’s time to get serious after the warm-up experienced 48 hours ago.
Be that as it may, Lenovo Tenerife starts out as a great favorite to lift for the third time a trophy that they already won in 2017 and 2020, a gradual sign of the conscientious growth of the club, especially since it was promoted to the ACB in 2012. Right now, already installed in the national and European elite through the Champions League, he is looking for another accolade with Vidorreta at the helm, whose team does not stop working with the precision of a Swiss watch. The play of reserving Shermadini and Huertas, his two stars, went well last Sunday against Real Madrid, so now he has a rotation of 12 players who work at full capacity.
So much so that, although the previous game was mediated by the sad level of Monastir, all his pupils scored in the semifinal, five of them even with 10 or more points (Fitipaldo, Salin, Shermadini, Abromaitis and Guerra). When the aurinegro team is in tune, heavenly music sounds to the rhythm of a ball that flies from hand to hand, circulating faster than immediately to the delight of a group of players where anyone can hit a triple (Of the 12, only three did not score from beyond 6.75: Sastre, who missed two, and Shermadini and Diagne, who did not try).
The Lenovo Tenerife lives not only on baskets, whose defensive intelligence and aid systems annihilated any option for poor Monastir. All this, together with an infinite hunger for glory, has the chicharrera formation on the verge of continuing to please a legend worked with a pick and shovel.
