UCAM Murcia CB received Surne Bilbao Basket at the Palacio in an a priori favorable match for university students by classification. Mumbrú’s pupils were planted on the Murcian court with four defeats in four days and that weighed heavily at the start of the match for the visitors.
For their part, those of Sito Alonso took advantage of that trick, knowing that the rival’s bad moment was to cancel their troops from the perimeter. With a quintet made up of Webb, Jordan, Taylor, Rojas and Lima, the local team enjoyed a few moments of dominance with a Davis who threw the team on his back. Taylor also added in the score and the team kept their distance until the end of the 1st quarter (26-14).
In the second period the trend was similar, although a partial of 0-8 made UCAM fear for the figures. The center game between Radovic and Lima had to unblock the attack. McFadden didn’t do well in the 2Q, but Taylor was adamant about doing what was asked of him under the rim. Bilbao had flashes of genius that brought him closer on the scoreboard with 35-30, but the importance of a time-out by Sito gave life to some university students who were in better shape at half-time 39-35.
The third quarter went to Jordan Davis. The Murcian team player went back to doing his thing to put his teammates in the ointment. Dragged by the good dynamics, UCAM began to chain triples and Webb wanted to join the scoring party. Who did not finish feeling comfortable on the floor, definitely, it was McFadden, who did not finish understanding with his dance partner, in this case Taylor. However, the visitors came up to provide a final quarter with guarantees of getting into the game. Mustache pushed and Goudelock scraped points to do a lot of damage to the Murcian zone defense (59-60).
The last quarter was that of emotion, that of the particular game of cat and mouse when distributing advantages on the scoreboard. Czerapowicz was the most fit from the perimeter, McFadden also woke up to help, but Bigote’s success did the same so that Bilbao did not give up space or ground.
With 18 seconds to go and with the game more open than ever, UCAM was up five and Masiulis came within minus three with two free throws. The time-outs began to occur in the Alonso-Mumbrú strategy until the final horn sounded with two more from Murcia and the victory in the pocket (92-87).
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