The RETAbet Bilbao Basket sealed, with a resounding 94-73 victory over the Joventut de Badalona in Miribilla, his stay in the ACB, which was more than complicated just ten days ago.
Since then, when, just out of confinement due to an outbreak of Covid-19 in its staff, it was almost down after also falling at the Bilbao Arena in front of the Herbalife Gran Canaria, the Basque team had to win three of the four games that had been postponed and wait for the Students, who rested this day and is the team that has finally descended, fell on Friday on their court against him Inherit San Pablo Burgos.
Had he won that clash the Students, The team of Alex Mumbrú He would have played this Sunday down, but the college team gave them one more life and ‘the men in black’ took advantage of it with one of their best games of the season.
Although the victory of Bilbao Basket It was coral, especially the Greek base Ioannis Athinaiou (11 points and 17 valuation), Ondrej Balvin (10 and 8 rebounds), the key player of the season, the exteriors John jenkins (13), Jaylon brown (11 and Quentin serron (10 and +20 on the court) and a Arnoldas Kulboka (11) resurrected at the end of the championship.
Vladimir Brodziansky (24 and 31) and Ferran bassas (11, 6 assists and 24) led a ‘Penya’ who did not play anything and who already knew that she finished seventh no matter what happened.
If the last game of the Bilbao Basket against him Real Madrid It had started out on an accident, with the blow to a Jenkins after a head clash with Alex Tyus, in this Sunday the incident occurred before it started.
And it was also another clash of heads. This time between Before Tomic Y Nenad Dmitrijevic, who suffered a head injury, had to be taken to the locker room on a stretcher to be treated and did not return until a few minutes before the break and played the game.
Oblivious to this, the local team started focused and successful to place an exciting 9-0 with two triples Jenkins and one of Serron.
Although this start was not useful to ‘the men in black’ because the Joventut he did not flinch, he reacted and turned the scoreboard at the end of the first quarter thrown by Brodziansky (15-19).
At six points the Penya with a basket at the start of the second quarter of Tomic (15-21) who turned on some premises alarms that he began to deactivate Athinaiou with an important triple. It would not be the only one who would.
The Greek’s next would be the one that would definitely put his teams ahead on the scoreboard (26-25); and another triple, this one Hakanson, gave 6 points of advantage to a Bilbao Basket that seemed to start to slip away.
But the third lack of Jenkins and a 0-4 with baskets of Vine Y Tomic (31-29) reminded those of Mumbrú that they should still work a victory that, however, began to be confirmed with the subsequent 10-0 (31-29) before the free throw of Brodziansky that left the 41-30 with which the rest was reached.
It was the beginning of the end of Joventut in the party and the certification of the Bilbao Basket in the ACB, since those in black, already supported by the more than probable victory, freed themselves and began to score and score baskets as they had rarely done throughout the course.
This, added to the visiting mistake, caused a happy ending to the meeting for a team that went above 30 points in the third quarter (75-44) and ended up sealing the permanence with a resounding 94-73.
Data sheet:
94 – RETAbet Bilbao Basket (15 + 26 + 34 + 19): Hakanson (10), Jenkins (10), Serron (13), Kulboka (11) and Balvin (10) -starting five-; Athinaiou (11), Brown (11), Reyes (6), Miniotas (6), Toté (2), Kljajic (4) and Dos Anjos.
Coach: Alex Mumbrú.
73 – Joventut Badalona (19 + 11 + 14 + 29): Bassas (11), Ribas (4), Parra (6), Morgan (5) and Brodziansky (24) -starting five-; Ventura (6), Dawson (2), López-Arostegui (2), Tomic (9), Parrado (2) and Busquets (2).
Coach: Cales Durán.
Partials: 15-19, 41-30 (rest); 75-44 and 94-73 (final).
Referees: Emilio Pérez, Vicente Bultó and Joaquín García. Without eliminated.
Incidents: Match of the 38th day of the Endesa League played at the Bilbao Arena in Miribilla without an audience due to health restrictions due to the covid pandemic.