The dream of … Cinderella in the final phase of Basketball Champions League It goes on!
In her maiden participation in the Final Four of the event, the Galatasaraynot only looked into the eyes the most turned and most talented Tenerifeon the contrary, crushed her with score 90-80 – It had reached +18 – in the first semifinal of the institution at Sunel Arena, celebrating the qualification of Sunday’s Grand Final (09/05, 20:00).
The Turks, who had about 220 their fans on their side, made Excellent second halfwhere the individual score was 50-37, resulting in returning from -15 to the middle of the second period and getting the coveted ticket for the final.
Top for the winners was the Embouca with 21 points and 10 rebounds, with their Will Cummings (21p, 3rd.) And Pulse (15p, 3rd.) Follow in performance. For the Spaniards, which They suffered their first defeat to this year’s BCL in the most pivotal gamethe … old -fashioned, stood out, Huertas and Sherry with 18 and 11 points respectively.
The match:
OR Galatasaray It was the one who came in more concentrated and decisively in the match, taking the upper hand in the score for 11-6 in 4 minutes, thanks to Delgado and Cummings. At that point, the two old … caravans came forward. Tenerifeas, the Marcelinio Huertas with 6 points and Jorgi Sermantini With 5, they overturned the situation for 15-13 at 7 ‘! Since then, the two teams have exchanged successive bumps until Louis Costa came and with 7 gathered points in the last 100 seconds, including a buzzer beater tripod, to Write 24-21 of the period.
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With their ally their good Finish, the Spaniards entered dynamically In the second quarterimposing their own pace. With Skrab taking action and with seven personal points writing 29-20 at 11 ‘, before shortly thereafter, Abromatis with a three-pointer launched the difference to +13 and 36-23 at 13’. In fact, with Huerta’s sharpness, Tenerife touched +15 (40-25) two minutes later, showing to fully control the pace. Somewhere there, however, the relaxation came, with “Chima Bom” exploiting it to the fullest and with a 14-0 sub-14-0 reducing to 40-37 at 18 ‘, a difference that was left until the half time, with both teams going to the locker room with The score at 43-40.
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With an acquired speed entered the third quarter Galatasaray, having as a “dowry” psychology and momentum from the second period. So the Turks with their front -to -day Earthworm and Cummingsdid what they wanted the opposing defense, even reaching At +12 and 49-61 in 24 ‘! The only thing Tenerife did in the second half of the period was to significantly limit Galata to the offensive part, at the same time that she had many difficulties in the front of the parquet. Nevertheless, holding the whole of the Sekizkok in just three points was able to gather the difference at 9 for 55-64 of the period.
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In the fourth and last quarter, Galatasaray continued to play in a very high tempo in defense and attack, having “locked” the opposing aggressive trumps. With Tuncher getting into the equation of the match and scoring points, before Palmer and Izudu take the baton, “Chima Bom” raised the difference At +18 and 78-60 at 34 ‘! A difference that proved to be irreversible to Tenerife, which all he did was to reduce to the final 90-80, With Galatasaray celebrating the qualification!
The quarters: 24-20, 43-40, 55-64, 80-90.
See the statistics of the race here.
Source: Sport Fm
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