A league as even as the VIPS could not have a better scenario for its outcome. The Princes of Asturias pavilion, in Pinto, This weekend hosts the final phase of the men’s VIPS League.
Pintobasket, CB Getafe, BT y New Energy Liceo They will compete for the title and for two places for direct promotion to the EBA League. As seen during the season and what is at stake, the intensity and emotion are guaranteed.
Novum Energy Liceo Francés – CB Getafe
The final phase will start on Saturday at 5:45 p.m. with the clash between Novum Energy Liceo Francés and the CB Getafe.
The two teams arrive with similar figures during the season. In the first phase, Liceo finished fifth in the Even group, although with the same balance (16-8) as the second (BT) and only one defeat less than the first, the Youth Alcalá-La Paz. Another sample of the enormous balance of the competition.
In the playoffs Those from Hortaleza confirmed that they could compete with anyone. first before the Basket Torrejón and then at the vibrant crossroads in front of Juventud Alcalá-La Paz. In his favor is the collective game.
Madrid’s Primera Nacional becomes the VIPS League
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No player accumulates more than ten points per game, but with more than eight they are David Casillas (9), Lino Monteagudo (9) Pablo Alonso (8.8), Joaquín Yáñez (8.8) and Eduardo Echeverría (8.7). That work of the whole team is also noticeable in the defense and under the rim, where Iker Mateo and Echeverria they lead the capture chapter, although with a wide distribution of figures. They may not be the favorites, but they are always dangerous.
Last season, in the first year of the it was misothe CB Getafe He stayed at the gates of the final phase. Now you have reached the first objective and that leaves you one step away from the second and more important: promotion to EBA League.
Pozuelo, female champion of the Vips League of Madrid
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For it, Andrew Miso It has a very compact block, as it showed in the quarterfinal matchup with Jofemesa ADC Boadilla, and it has grown during the season. Inside, Imru Duke and Cheikh Diop put the muscle, but also the mobility, without forgetting the tremendous work of Alejandro Barberá.
Outside, several players share the responsibility depending on the time of the game: Daniel Tolosa, Jamie Rubio, Carlos Martos… And to all this we must add the direction of the game by Luis Alberto Expósito and Alejandro Álvarez. A very compensated team and, when the machinery works, almost impossible to stop. Against? Perhaps just the pressure of having the promotion between eyebrows.
- Balance in the season (you): Novum Energy Liceo Francés (20-9) / CB Getafe (20-8)
Pintobasket – BT
If the first semi-final promises excitement, the second even more so. At 8:00 p.m., they will face the host Pintobasket and the BT. The pinteños made a leap in intensity from January, which, together with the additions of David Nieto and the Brazilian Alex Manicaled them to close the regular league at the top of the Odd group with 18 wins and only six losses.
That yes, in the crossings they needed the jump-off to leave in the gutter to the Ingescasa Basketball Three Cantos and the CB Las Rozas. In addition to those already mentioned, Pedro Miota has the solvency of Jaime Blázquez (14.6 points per game), the work under the hoops of Youssouf Dembele (8.1 catches), the verticality of Jorge Cáceres and Alberto Cañal, the experience of Jbarley ‘Gica’ Pérez... and the support of its public.
Office before youth
In front of the office Pintobasket, the youth of BT. The Torresanos arrive in Pinto with a balance during the season similar to that of their rivals and a team that combines physical and technical equal parts. Youssouf Traore (11 rebounds per game) and Mike Mukendi (7.4) They are a wall under the hoops and, if they are not there, Serigne Diop and Asier de la Iglesia appear, who provide the dose of experience necessary in a competition as demanding as the VIPS League.
outside, Makar Voronin has scored fifty three-pointers so far this season (31.4% accuracy), but we must also take into account Tiago Dias, Diego Martinez, Hugo Perez... The backbone is the junior team that finished sixth in the last Spanish Championship, ahead of many ACB academies.
- Balance in the season (you): Pintobasket (22-8) / BT (20-9)
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