The first official match of the season also hid the first “bang” in Spain!
OR Unicaja Malaga won the first cup of the new season, after defeating Real Madrid with a score of 90-80 in his final Supercopa which took place in Murthy and lifted the trophy for the first time in its history.
Last year’s champions BCLwhich recently also got the Intercontinental Cupthey entered the match impressively and found themselves fast to +17 (15-32). Real chased from very early on and gradually managed to “nibble” the difference, getting closer to the point shortly after halfway through the last quarter (73-74).
At that point, Imbon Navarro’s team… woke up again, escaping with +7 thanks to big three-pointers by Tyler Kalinoski and Cameron Taylor (73-80). From then on, the “queen” had no reaction and lost the title for the first time since 6 consecutive victories!
The first scorer of the match with 22 points was Taylorwhile the former Panathinaikos player had 16, Kendrick Perry and 14 Yankumba Sima. From Real, he had 19 points Facundo Campacho13 Gabi Deck, 12 Sergi Yule and 7 with 13 rebounds Eddie Tavares.
The quarters: 19-32, 45-49, 63-68, 80-90
Source: Sport Fm
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