It’s like the story of the three little pigs. The wolf is coming! a fragile and defenseless UEMC Real Valladolid seems to shout not against Obradoiro, a former ACB rival and questioned for its weak basketball and its poor record of results in this start of the League, but against any rival, big, in theory (only in theory) like the one from yesterday, or small like Zamora. The UEMC Real Valladolid house to protect itself from the fierce wolf seems to be made of straw, like in the story. And at any breath, no matter how insignificant, it collapses.
The team of the dejected and increasingly dejected Lolo Encinas, joined in the emergency duel of two teams with a poor record of one victory for three defeats, the fourth consecutive defeat. Five if you add last Tuesday’s in the Spanish Cup. An already endemic and repeated evil that leads the team not only to lose its little confidence but to be devoured mercilessly by any rival, whether they have claws and sharp teeth or not.
Sergio de la Fuente throws before the score of an Obradoiro player
Because the Obradoiro once again uncovered with four details (literally) a UEMC Real Valladolid mired in depression in which it costs them an entire world to catch a sliver of oxygen on the scoreboard only to lose it in a flash.
UEMC Real Valladolid, as demonstrated yesterday, neither knows nor can win. He walks on the wire at all times, a victim of its terrible and inconceivable disconnections.
The UEMC Real Valladolid bench gives instructions to his players from the sideline.
With the inside game at the center of the target due to the injuries of Wilson and Vucetic and the arrival of a Rozitis who contributes with a dropper or who does not take advantage of his ceiling, Real Valladolid navigates due to the spasms that the 1v1 against him produces. world of Atencia, the Russian roulette that Kovacevic plays attack after attack or the inspiration drawn with a syringe from the theoretical leader of the team, Hoover, cold with the ice in a basketball that needs temperature.
Real Valladolid went ahead on the scoreboard on several occasions (37-29, 57-50) to be a victim of their lack of continuity and poor reading at the back, conceding too many easy baskets. It was enough for Obradoiro to live off his point guard Quintela, with ACB stripes, with the ball as if it were a yo-yo but capable of doing and undoing as he pleased, covering up the terrible game (3 of 13) of his American Davison or the sentence to which he Leimanis is subdued as an escort.
Rozitis with the ball after a rebound.
An 11-0 run made people think of the long-awaited resurrection of the dejected Real Valladolid. Nothing could be further from the truth because the score of 57-50 soon became 62-63 that was enough of a blow to knock down the fragile foundations of the team. Because in that final stretch the team made losses in defense. Chance? Back to their old ways to receive 26 points in the last quarter at the worst moment. Incomprehensible as the fact that with 70-74 down and just over 30 seconds not taking a quick foul and letting Quintela consume many seconds and even shoot a triple.
It was no use failing because there was no more time. Puidet made two free throws (72-74) with only 14 seconds left. Time out and Obradoiro chooses to serve from his field and not from the attack. There were three seconds left and Arroyo certified from the free throw line the safe conduct for his coach (72-76), endorsing a new rosy defeat for a UEMC Real Valladolid in free fall.
