A dream turned into exciting reality: Box 87 starts the ascent phase

It does not always happen, but well done work usually gives rewards and satisfactions. The Insolac Caja 87which has grown in record time since birth to counterreloj last July and in its first season of life has sneaked into the promotion phase to the first Feb. With the merit that this entails not only for its status as a newborn club but because it knew how to rectify in time making decisions that vary in a copernican way the course of the team. For the better, of course. To punish at the bottom of the table with a balance of 1-6 at the end of the seventh day, when he lost in Córdoba, to leave the classification mud and place first in the middle zone and then then Attack with impudence and determination the Play Off positions.

The commitment to Eloy Ramírezthe young Utrerano coach who was an assistant at the Monbús Obradoiro, has left the brothers as sweet Curlyfounders and owners of a club that is making dreams in realities in a few months: this Sunday, in San Pablo (19.00), the ascent phase starts. In the round of 16, Box 87, seventh of the west group, will see the faces with a classic of the FEB categories, the San Agustín de Palma de Mallorca Bay that, for sponsorship reasons, this campaign is called Fibwi Palma.

The Balearic Islands, led by Pablo da Costa, concluded in the third position of the East Group with a balance of 17 wins and nine losses after linking four triumphs in a row, the last in the derby against the Palmer Basket Mallorca Palmawith those who fasted the regular phase. Statistically, they average 76.6 points in favor and float in the triple with a discreet 28% in their releases from the perimeter rope. Defensively they are the most solids of the second Feb by allowing just an average of 70.2 points per game to their adversaries.

In the usual headline of the Fibwi Palma, very consolidated, there are no players who exceed 2.01 meters and this is striking. Because you can define your game form. Its top scorer is the Puerto Rican Brian Vázquezwith 13.3 points and 35% in Triple, although as a more valued man (15.5) the American stands out Christian Cunninghamwith averages of 11.2 points and 6.8 captures. Fibwi Palma’s payroll is completed by the Caboverdiano Patrick Spencerthe Bahamian Franco Miller Jr.the Guinean Sydney Correia and the Italo-Argentino Lucas Giovannetti, of the Student quarry.

Touched the promotion to acb

The Fibwi Palma plays in the Sports Center are Moixof about 4,000 spectators, where he shares space with two more basketball clubs, Volley Palma and Mallorca Palma Futsal. The rival of the Insolac Caja 87 is the result of the merger of two clubs (CB Printing Bahia and Basketball Club San Agustín) in a single entity that has come to dispute an ascent phase to ACB. It was in 2019, the season of direct ascent to the Endesa League of Betis Energía Plus. Called then IBEROJET PALMAthe current Fibwi Palma ended in third position of the regular phase and reached the final of the Play Off of the Gold, where it was surpassed by Bilbao Basket. Players as players as Mikel Motos, Erik Quintela, Carles Bivia, Álex Hernández, Federico Ucles or Fran Guerra. At the end of October 2018 he visited the San Pablo Sports Palace, in the 5th day of the LEB Oro, falling by 82-77 against Betis.

Much has rained since then and now the reality of Fibwi Palma is very different, but also very exciting. More is even that of Box 87which faces the play off without the pressure of other clubs but with the firm desire to face, compete for right and continue dreaming. He has the entire squad at his disposal Eloy Ramírez to face this first assault of a tie in which the sum of points has to qualify. The same format will be repeated in rooms and semifinals.

Logically, a good part of the box options 87 go through recover its strength in San Pablowhere he has lost the last two games, although we must not become obsessed with it since it is an eight -quarter tie. And with that mentality you must face it This box 87 that has won 13 of the 19 games played with its new coachthus winning the right to dispute the Play Off. Although the clash with the Fibwi Palma is out of the subscription, there is popular prices: five euros for the partner and ten for the rest of the attendees.