Valencia removes the thorn

Valencia Basket, led by Klemen Prepelic, got rid of their thorns against a UCAM Murcia Club Baloncesto that this season they had beaten them at home in the first round of the Endesa League (86-91) and in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey (83-86) and finally the taronjas have prevailed by a hurried 71-72 at the Palacio de los Deportes in the capital of Segura in a match that they have almost always dominated but in which they have suffered until the end.

With this result, the taronja team, fifth classified, reaches 16 wins in 24 games played, which is three more than UCAM CB, seventh, in the same number of games. The clash was played with great intensity from the start with both teams fighting for each ball and with more activity than success (7-6 after four minutes).

The good work of Víctor Claver was key in the first notable partial of the clash, a 0-9 that made it go from 7-4 to 7-13, which led Sito Alonso to request his first time-out. The call to order from the local coach made his team react, who, back on the court, maintained their defensive tone to at least contain the momentum of Taronja and the quarter closed with a 13-17.

Prepelic took over from Claver and the team coached by Joan Peñarroya had their greatest advantage up to that point (13-20 with seven points in a row from the Slovenian). That’s when Emanuel Cate emerged with rebounding, intimidation and 10 points. in five baskets in the area to show the way to UCAM CB (23-24).

However, the visitors, based on triples from their tall men (Bojan Dubljevic, Claver and Jaime Pradilla), they stayed up on the scoreboard to the point of putting their advantage at 11 points in an instant (27-38 with a tap from Jasiel Rivero on the horn that pointed the way to the locker room).

The greater offensive clairvoyance of the Valencians made them win despite the efforts of the university team, but at the beginning of the second part the extraordinary staging of the granaswith a 15-4 run in just four minutes, already hinted that it would be a long game (42-42 and 44-44).

Prepelic came to the rescue of the taronjas again and, with 19 points already for the Maribor side and a run of 5-16 just when the visitors seemed most overwhelmed, they recovered the maximum lead at the end of the third period (49-60). Isaiah Taylor, putting the team on his back despite having spent the last few hours with a fevermade believe again that the victory of the UCAM CB was possible.

With six and a half minutes remaining, the match was once again to be decided (61-63) and, after a phase of offensive blockage by both teams, within the last two minutes the draws followed one another at 65 and 68.

Valencia Basket, with decisive Pradilla and without Prepelic on the court after retiring injured and with symptoms of pain in his left arm, came close to victory but Taylor still had time to make the Murcians win. However, his desperate triple from nine meters and in the race did not enter and the victory went to the capital of the Turia.

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