Back-to-back champion Basketball Champions League or Unicha Malaga!
One year after her first win in Belgrade, Ibon Navarro’s team made the repeat at FIBA’s leading European event, celebrating the title in the big final of the Snel Arena Final Four, dominating with the impressive 83-67 by Galatasaray!
Having control of the match and the upper hand in the score from the very beginning of the match, the Spaniards, Thanks to their experience and quality, they managed to step foot on the throttle in the fourth and final periods, To score and reach the coveted European mug!
Top for the winners was the Perez with 13 points and 11 rebounds, with their Surf (13p, 4s.) And Kinet (11p) add a lot of help to the finale. For the Turks, who in their maiden participation in a Final Four of BCL reached the final, the Wallace and Cummings with 14 points each.
The match:
The first minutes of the final were identified, with Unikaha Malaga loaded from a very early team foul and Galatas taking advantage of it for 4-0 in the first minute. Somewhere there, the Spaniards raised vertical turns and with Perry and Carter scoring 5 and 7 points respectively, led 15-9 five minutes. Characteristic of the image of the match and the good defense of the typical guests was the fact that until the finale of the season, the Turks only scored with shots for 13-19 of the quarter.
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Malaga continued to control the pace of the race and with a quick 5-0 hand-made-handed Ostekovsky and Kalinoski, preceded for the first forwardA with +11 (13-24) at 12 ‘. Somewhere in there, Will Cummings went ahead aggressively for “Chima Bom”, who found a pace on both ends of the parquet and managed not only to shake the difference, but also to bring the match to the equal. For the 26-26 at 17 ‘. Malaga’s response came in the last period of the period with six points Perez and three Carter’s shots in the dead time, with the two teams going to the locker room with the Score at 31-37.
The derby continued and In the third quarter, After the Ibon Navarro team could not escape the score and build a safety difference, since the fighter Milk He was there to always find solutions. With Taylor and Otskovsky’s twin, the Spaniards went to +7 (36-43), to answer the Cummings and Bloombs giving aggressive impetus to their team before Wallace with seven points in 1.5 minutes, write 49-53 at 28 ‘! In the last two minutes, there were many inappropriate shots, with Kravis in the finale behind 6.75m. to form 49-56 of the period.
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To Fourth and last quarter, Malaga, with her quality and experience, managed to maintain this small but very important lead. Despite the efforts of Wallace and Ivountu for Galata near the racket, the Spaniards easily found solutions at the front of the parquet and with Taylor, Perez, and Perry’s three -point lead, preceded with +9 for 63-54 at 33 ‘ In fact, Wallace’s two-pointer did not change the … fate of the Turks, since a fast 5-0-handed Kalloski raised the difference for the first time. at +12 and 68-56 at 35 ‘,while two minutes later with three -pointers by Perry and Kalinoski, the difference was launched At +17 and 80-63! The time left was not enough to change the situation, with Malaga celebrating The second successive BCL trophy of its story with the final 83-67!
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The quarters: 13-19, 31-37, 49-56, 67-83.
See the statistics of the race here.
Source: Sport Fm
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