Betis Basketball is a rock in San Pablo (88-77)

In San Pablo, land of parabienes this season in Verdiblanco, only the host celebrates. The good habit installed by the Betis Basketball One more day is maintained. Each victory is life. Fill the energy and moral tank. Tonight’s, invoiced not without work or suffering before the Grupo Alega Cantabriaallows him to establish himself in the fourth place and disguise himself from the defeat of the first round in Vicente Trueba, the first time that the hard troop of Gonzalo García de Vitoria fought his knee. Then he has done it four more, but all of them at home, because in San Pablo he maintains his idyll with the triumph. Until the streak lasts, it will well enjoy it because every victory of this team so asaetened by injuries and sanctions (a Radoncic He still has one more party to meet) has a lot of value. The harmonic perimeter quartet formed by Hughes, Benite, Renfroe and Cvetkovic (65 points gathered) He put the soundtrack to this new joy that the Hispanic-Colombian wanted to avoid by all means Atanceto which Betis did not renew the temporary contract of one month. In his return to San Pablo, he surprised with a hyperbolic performance, with 30 points and six triples that did not suffice his team against the most choral cast of the host.

With the lesson learned, the Grupo Alega Cantabria. In the fare of the party it was evidenced that he had well studied the rival. And not only for the duel of the first round but because his new coach, Lolo Encinas, had already measured the Verdiblancos in San Pablo with Real Valladolid. Scouting made. He squeezed in the defense of the outer line and thus obtained the main route of supply of Betis, the triple, forcing him to pull quality and individual actions to add. Renfroe, Benite and Hughes, what two rumbled matches theirs, scanned the defense and accepted the challenge of the Alaga Group, which uploaded their benefits from the exit to the exverdiblanco Atencia. It gave the feeling that Betis wanted to abbreviate the attacks too much and thus lost several ballsbecause the rush is bad counselors and the power without control of anything serves, but fortunately it remained firm in the defensive rebound, which the guests attacked either. With the cards of the first quarter on the table (18-16), Betis already knew that he would have to chop stone to knock down the Cantabrian resistance.

As soon as the second segment starts, Jelinek missed two triple that does not usually fail, from the left corner. Without outside shooting, life is for Betis a permanent cost of January. His poor serial until that moment (1/11) forced him to explore other production routes. He scored in the game of two by two, in penetrations of Hughes, Benite and Cvetkovic, who assumed the prominence of the offensive maneuvers. It was the Serbian who signed the first ten of his team (28-26) when the group alleges not only believed in their options but emboldened when opening the tricfin tap (28-29, after Rakocevic Diana). The game had a lot of rhythm and was going much faster than that of Pisuerga. It was Betis an asymmetric team, feeding exclusively the talent and capacity of its perimeter. A Triple of Benite and Another Mate of Hughesthe third in his account, raised to six the difference (35-29), which were nine (41-32) when the team, concreted back, collapsed the visiting attack and exposed himself in the transition. Atency, supermotivated, went to the rescue of the Cantabrians, but Benite responded and Hughes put in fifteen points to leave the mattress to the recess in twelve (47-35). Of the 47 points, 37 carried the rubric of the Hughes-Benite-Cvetkovic tridentthe three tenors of the García de Vitoria team. The authoritarian domain of the rebound (21 captures, nine more than his rival, 16 in defense) consolidated the sensation of local control. And that the best of visitors, Bulic, would take only two points at that point was another indicative that the plan was working.

Of the maximum to the Canguelo

Rubén López de la Torre, from the personnel line, put the maximum in the resumption (49-35) and Betis was still still solid and disciplined. Behind, like so many nights, were the keys to victory. Bulic uploaded his fourth point posting, but immediately Debisschop hung the hoop exploiting the game again in pairs (51-37). The Cantabrian team was not intimidated, which linked two other triples replicated by, who if not, Hughes. That before the restart he joked with Curro, the delegate, and had his dolls burning. Like Benite, increasingly inspired (57-43). The Cantabrians, unlike the first half, struck for second opportunities on the Betic Board, showing much more aggressive. There they contributed much less than expected Kasibabu and Tunde, who are defensive specialists. López de la Torre, on the other hand, went to nine rejects. Belemene reduced ten (57-47); Bulic, from the free kick, with Betis in Bonus, eight (57-49); and Atance, five with his fourth triple (57-52). Partial 0-9 that rose to 0-12 with the fifth dagger of the Colombian (57-55). Betis had definitely turned off, but in two spark, Tunde and Kasibabu reactivated him (61-55). Of the dead time, partial of 0-6 and match matched with Betis in its lowest hours. Since 57-43, the Verdiblancos fit 6-18 (63-61)with unleashed care (21 points) and with no one to defend it, who put it in a brete.

Pulse between Hughes and Atance

It was time for Renfroe. House and triple brand tray with the feet brushing the ground (68-61). Betis could not afford more defensive licenses after 16-26 of the third quarter. Renfroe stuck again three in the face to face with Atance (71-63), who had mutated in a kind of Stephen Curry and scored in all possible ways. The solo, incandescent, kept alive, with a lot of life, to the Alega group, who did not give up in his persecution. The betic response to his boldness was the deck. Of Renfroe, Benite and Hughes, absolutely illuminated (79-67), as incisive and voracious as Atance, which nailed the 30 points. The game was a pure lack of control and Betis, a specialist in lowering the pulsations and putting chloroform into favorable situations, did not tied the Cantabrians in short and rushed into attack, losing balls and giving offers. Too many nerves And it was not very well understood why. Hughes, fine stylist and volcanic tonight, reduced tension. And Rubén, from the free kick (83-72) to 56 seconds, completed the work, then ordo with a triple of Jelinek, to seal a new victory at home, where Betis Basketball remains invulnerable.