Cut but intense, the Copexo Manresa adventure lasted that it lasted it. Goliath wins more times than David and well they know in the congost. But David was David again, as always, and little (or nothing) must be reproached. There are too many weapons that this Real Madrid looks for the Ocampo team, for which its brilliant classification for the tournament is already a fat prize. Manresa endured what she could and tried to lift several times from the canvas, but the blows continued to fall and there was no way. The semifinal pass was for whites.
He did not want to speculate Real Madrid despite his favoritism and jumped with the fifth march. In the blink of an eye, with some intimidation of Tavares and the electricity of Campazzo, he drew a 7-0 to start the duel. A scenario that had invited any coach to ask for a dead time to digest the blow but not Diego Ocampo, convinced of his road map, which did not stop in the band, restless and squeaky, remembering the orders to his own. The message was received and assimilated by their players immediately because they built a part of 0-10 in less than a rooster sings.
The Ocampo needed 15 attempts to sign their first triple, a ballast too heavy
Tremendous Derrick Alston JR, a superior player, who will last little in the Congost. So you have to enjoy it while you can, become the main stiletto of Ocampo in attack. Reyes also pointed at times to hold his team, who was able to conclude the first room matched on the scoreboard, impressive his effort and concentration, before the innumerable rotations always ordered from the bench. The Manresa game requires a supine freshness and there is no other way to look for it.
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The problems began to arrive when his attack dried up, just 8 points throughout the second quarter, signed a 0/10 in triple costume road. So Madrid, without a too overwhelming version, was able to start putting land in between. Llull scored 33-24 with a triple and, this time, Ocampo smelled the danger and asked for time. But there was no way to change the dynamics and with a couple of spark they managed the white team to stretch to the 13 income points, with which it ended up going to the break against a manresa that tried to grab the game with the yolk of the yolk of The fingers. To achieve this, I would have to improve not only its shooting percentages, but also their selection, things that usually go hand in hand.
The third room is lethal for the Manresanos, who linked almost nine minutes without scoring a single basket at stake, a drought that was already coming from the first part. Dry in 8 points in that partial, Madrid this time accelerated towards the semifinals. The Arsenal Blanco trizas the Manresana wall and was percussing until 59-37 that the firm of Musa took. Before the horn, Reyes was right from the arch after 15 attempts to cement a partial of 0-8 to approach until 60-47.
The Manresa reaction, a team always brave, was extended a few minutes from the last act but without breaking the ten points barrier. A couple of triples from Llull and the emergence of a majestic Hezonja ended the afternoon and culminated the debacle of Catalan basketball in the Cup. The three have had to return home.
