Leyma is a young club. Not even three decades in which he has been growing little by little, obsessed with not running, with taking one step in front of the other no matter how small. He went up while taking his time and, although it cost him, This Friday the time has come to take a firm and broad stride to sneak into the Princess Cup for the first time in its history.. It does not depend on himself, but what is unavoidable is beating him (9:00 p.m., LaLigaPlus) to Mellila, a mid-table team, but on the rise in this LEB Oro in which the orange team has fully entered the fight for everything.
A Cup basket by basket for Leyma
With Estudiantes virtually classified, Leyma is playing against San Pablo Burgos, which has three consecutive defeats, and with Gipuzkoa as outsider. The three have twelve wins and four losses before the last match of the first round, the one that gives the first two places in the league to the Princess Cup contenders. Fighting for a title, something unimaginable for the A Coruña team, does nothing. Leyma needs a defeat for the Burgos team, something unlikely, since they host Betis, or win by eleven points more than the league leader until recently. The day will be unified in the upper zone, since Gipuzkoa receives Estudiantes at the same time.
The situation is unbeatable and generates excitement in the Leyma area. Of course, Diego Epifanio lives moments of concern, as he deals with expectations, those that he hopes do not eat up his team. “I think there is a lot of noise and you have to live with it. The Princess Cup has too much of a last name,” he warns the orange coach “Everyone talks too much, but they don’t give it the importance of the game against Melilla,” reasons a coach who, beyond the score and the fact that every basket counts tonight, is obsessed with Leyma playing in his home team. track and not on someone else’s. “I have told everyone that we should try to isolate ourselves. It doesn’t matter what is happening in Burgos, in San Sebastián… We don’t care. Our objective does not change, which is still to win the match and make the biggest difference possible, but like all duels, then it is of no use…”, he says in a pleading tone.
The future is tempting and the present will measure Leyma against Melilla of Van Dyke, Varance and Alvarado. The orange team faces a team that has the fourth scorer in the league and the top rebounders and assists in the championship. Van Dyke has more than 17 points per game, Varence captures more than eight rebounds and Alvarado distributes more than seven basket balls per game. A triple threat that Diego Epifanio is very aware of. “We are going to play against a very good team, a team that is in very good dynamics, a team that has won many away victories and a team that has, in the statistical section, many outstanding players,” he points out before delving into its collective functioning. “We have to try to stop their (scoring) focuses. In the first seconds (of possessions) are the connections that Alvarado may have with Van Dyke, with Varence… The traffic, the speed at which his bases play… It is very important to control his first seconds and try to make the best defense in the five on five and rebound. If we are capable, we have to try to run…”, outlines the coach.
Leyma also intends to recover that version of a hot-wrist team, with many points in the hands. He is the top scorer in the entire LEB Oro with 89.1 per game after passing 100 in several games and reaching 110 on two occasions. It is no longer possible to allow himself to make only five triples out of 29 attempts and that the protagonist of all successes be Jakovics, as happened in Castellón. The Latvian and Goran Huskic’s good movements and ease of scoring in the zone supported a Leyma that was at the right level to win. He needs more from Yunio Barrueta, from Aleix Font, from Beqa Burjanadze…
The warmth of the Palace, where a great entrance is expected, will be essential in the first of the several historic evenings that Leyma intends to experience this season on the way to the ACB. Yes, step by step. You have to win and if it is by the greatest possible difference, the better. This way, what comes from the other side of the transistor will sound better.
2024-01-11 19:51:17
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