Hereda San Pablo Burgos will debut in the Endesa League Playoff against Lenovo Tenerife, in a new milestone in the history of the Castilian club and the city’s basketball. Joan Peñarroya’s team will start the quarterfinal tie tomorrow, Tuesday, at 7:45 p.m., at the Santiago Martín Pavilion on the Canary Island.
“We face the first Playoff in the history of our club and of a club in the basketball elite in Burgos with the hope and responsibility of trying to do our best,” emphasized the Hereda San Pablo Burgos coach in the previous match. To face this last stretch of the season, the Castilians will arrive with all the members of their squad available, in the absence of knowing if Jasiel Rivero will be from the game, after he was a father this past weekend.
The Burgos team had seven days to prepare for the quarter-final matches against Lenovo Tenerife, in a period in which they had to double efforts to try to maintain their competitive pace. The breaks in the Endesa League have meant that in recent times weeks of a lot of activity have been interspersed with others without games to play, a situation that tomorrow’s two contenders will have to overcome to offer their best version.
The fate of this course has wanted the Hereda San Pablo Burgos and Lenovo Tenerife to cross their paths again on a new occasion, this time for the Playoff for the title. Joan Peñarroya acknowledged in the preview that the Canarian team is “a rival we know a lot about” and that, furthermore, “it has had a great season in the Endesa League, getting that third position”.
Those of Txus Vidorreta have had an excellent year in the domestic competition, which ended with a balance of 27 wins and 9 losses. Of the Canarian team, its potential as a collective stands out, which it has been perfecting throughout the course, and from which two key figures stand out: Giorgi Shermadini and Marcelinho Huertas.
The Georgian pivot has been named MVP of the Endesa League season, with the highest possible scores after voting and surpassing other men of great weight in the competition such as Edy Tavares or Nikola Mirotic. Shermadini has sealed the acb campaign with averages of 17 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 22.5 PIR credits per game.
Regarding the Brazilian point guard, his performance with Lenovo Tenerife has been equally important: 14.2 points, 6.1 assists and an average valuation of 15.5 per match. His great numbers have earned him inclusion in the Best Quintet of the season after the closure of the regular league.
This quarter-final tie will face two teams that have been measured in all the competitions they have played: Endesa League, Basketball Champions League, Copa del Rey and, now, Playoff. The balance favors the Canarian team: four victories for those from Vidorreta by one for Peñarroya, the one achieved in the European competition at the Coliseum.
However, in the overall number of commitments that both teams have faced during the course, there appears “a very similar baggage of victories and defeats,” pointed out the Hereda San Pablo Burgos coach, who sees “two teams that have played in a very similar way. similar throughout the season ”.
“I expect a very difficult tie, but also disputed,” said Joan Peñarroya about the quarterfinal matches in which they will fight for a ticket to the semifinal. The owner of the pass to the next round will be the first team that manages to achieve the two victories in the series, with the court factor favorable to the Tenerife people.
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