Too much light is like too much shadow: it doesn’t let you see. The UEMC Real Valladolid, the team built to inspire with a more modern basketball, remains blind as a result not only of its inability but also of its terrible inconsistency. Their good staging was of little or rather nothing, acquiring an income that reached 13 points (24-11). A simple current, an insignificant blow by a weak Oviedo, without towers but full of pawns for the cause, ended up knocking him down.
Also Oviedo, a team from the so-called middle class of this First FEB, was able to find the ribs of a UEMC Real Valladolid marked by its unjustifiable disconnections. And he did it with little, very little but… enough. Not even the best version of the hitherto criticized and pointed out Egekeze, author of 22 points and 25 Rating credits, was enough for a team mired in continuous depression.
Egekeze was the best of UEMC Real Valladolid against Oviedo.
If this team had to be built on defense, that is precisely where it began to dig its grave again, receiving identical baskets again and again in the second quarter, with the simple pass and go, the pick and roll, backdoors and after kick-offs. background. A burden more typical of children than of a team of professionals. Once again, in the blink of an eye and when the difference should have gone towards twenty points, Oviedo, like the little ant, ended up making a mountain by taking control of the game. Few, no one could believe it. With pawns but with a more dynamic basketball, especially when it comes to weaving the defense-attack transitions, very clear, too clear.
Juangar, in an action against Oviedo.
Anarchy or not knowing what is at stake took over the UEMC Real Valladolid, drowned and clinging once again to Kovacevic’s floater, who continues to take away from you in defense what he gives you in attack with those stratospheric triples, to the war work of guerrillas of a priceless Juangar, with the right quality but all heart, the little use of his giant Vucetic and the awakening of Egekeze. That alone was not enough. Because there were players who either did not add or rather subtracted like De la Fuente, Hoover (the American called to make Devin Schmidt forget), Rozitis or a Sans determined to do more things than he should.
Without making noise, Oviedo knew how to take advantage of its rival’s traffic jam to enter the last quarter tied and take advantage of the state of anxiety of a Real Valladolid that continues without playing anything, signing another painful defeat (78-82), the fifth in seven games . Because he was not even able to win the battle of rebounds (35 versus 42), giving up second and third options to his rival in an incomprehensible way at the moment when it was his turn to row and come back in the final stages.
Robert Cosialls throws before Egekeze’s insufficient scoring.
Another defeat that forces us to at least examine our conscience and rethink everything, absolutely everything. Because in addition to the results and the bad play, or at least intermittent play, is added the accumulation of injuries that could wrongly lead to an excuse for each defeat. Because Oviedo, with a budget below 750,000 euros (in the rear van and comparable to those of Menorca, Oviedo, Zamora, Cartagena and Morón) was and is a worse team than UEMC Real Valladolid, even with the absences.
