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The UCAM shooting guard is in great form and was the highlight in the victory against Unicaja, with 27 points and the winning shot
When a player is in one of those moments in a game where he seems to put in everything he throws, he is said to be feeling the itch. Coined by the narrator of the NBA in Movistar Plus Guillermo Giménez, it is already part of the popular basketball culture, and that itching is heard from a street court to a game of the highest posh. Lately, Thad McFadden is also itching all over.
Author of 27 points and the winning shot with 3.6 seconds remaining in Malaga, McFadden is going through his best moment as a UCAM player, with whom he was one of the names of the Copa del Rey, where he was the player who he averaged the most points in the tournament with his 20 and 18 points in the quarterfinals and semifinals, with a combined triple of 10 hits in 20 attempts, a spectacular 50% until his injury against Barça with five minutes remaining for the -and the- final .
From Granada he traveled to Tbilisi, where they played ‘FIBA windows’ with his national team, Georgia. In the first of two games against North Macedonia, the UCAM man went up to 26 points with six triples and, just three days later, already in Skopje, to 24 with another five.
Like all shooters, McFadden is a streak player. And he is in one that is a joy to see him. Substitute since he lost ownership in favor of Davis on the fifth day, the latter’s problems in overcoming Covid-19 and reaching the Cup in conditions gave him back in Granada, and the shooting guard has once again felt essential.
Having been one of the names of a Cup to remember, it also had to be to maintain the good dynamics in the return to reality, especially after the irregularity dragged this season. Luckily for Sito, the gunpowder has not been wet and in Malaga he was the most outstanding player to steal a victory that is worth its weight in gold, the eleventh in nineteen games.
To beat Ibon Navarro’s team, UCAM had to go through different phases of the game in which several were the players who stood out according to this: Davis and his intensity at the beginning, Radovic to the low post later, the appearance of Webb III in the third quarter, Lima’s rebounds when foul trouble didn’t keep him on the bench. McFadden was always there: in the four quarters of the game he scored at least one triple -six in total, out of ten attempts- and, of course, the basket that certified the victory was for him, in one on one against Alberto Díaz, one of the best outside defenders in the league.
special motivation
Flint’s shooting guard is also a very emotional player. Any spark is enough to find the flame of motivation, which makes him one of the best ‘microwaves’ in the competition, one of those players capable of revolutionizing a game with his unlikely long shots in the blink of an eye. In his two best games this season, that spark jumped in the previous one.
The day before yesterday, McFadden jumped to the floor after Unicaja created the rumor of his desire to incorporate the shooting guard, with a valid contract with UCAM for the next season. The only intention to destabilize, because the reality is that there is nothing. Unicaja is not interested in paying a transfer for a player who is almost 35 years old.
His other big game this season was also away from Murcia, in Burgos. There he played the previous two seasons, a key player in two Champions Leagues and one Intercontinental. When the time came to negotiate continuity, McFadden received an unexpected very low offer that made him look at Murcia. There, on December 11 and as a college player, the shooting guard scored 29 points in 18.32 games with nine triples out of thirteen attempts. Cartoon.
Will the streak continue? The day after tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. we will know it against, precisely, Burgos.