The mission of throwing the bolt in San Pablo again

Immovable of the fourth place, where he would not mind staying the play off, the Real Betis Basketball He faces his third game in the last ten days and the penultimate at home of the regular phase. With 24 victories in the locker after the added, and not without suffering, against the CB Naturavia Morón At home last Tuesday, the Verdiblancos are already a series head of the ascent phase and receive this Sunday the visit of the Amics Castellópenultimate of the table with just eight victories. You need the triumph to hold in the category.

In the antipodes is Betis, which does not stop its ambition, to be able to climb some more position, while it is still very pending of the rearview mirror. Specifically, of that Monbús Obradoiro which is the most in the form of the category … with permission of the San Pablo Burgos, back in the ACB After consummating his direct ascent with his victory over Fuenlabrada last Wednesday (87-74).

Bruno Savignani’s pupils have left over three days. It was sung that the Burgos team would do its duties better than anyone, without having to go through the secondary road off. ANDThere is only one place in the elevator to the ACB for which Betis Basketball will bid in the qualifierswhich is insured the field advantage in the quarterfinals. At most, it will be fifth, but it depends on yourself to be fourth and even third.

Betis Basketball is the team that has suffered the most injuries this season. With that of Radoncicstreet dress next to Benite On the bench in Morón, there are already 21, according to the count of Gonzalo García de Vitoria, which has had to alter the rotation in that permanent state of reinvention that has characterized the Verdiblanco cast. Without going any further, on December 1, the team razed in Castellón (60-94) with four less players: Pablo Marín, Jelinek, Suárez and Radancic.

So many have been injuries, most fortuitous mishaps, who with the fingers of one hand could count the matches in which Betis Basketball has arranged the full squad. All these setbacks have not undermined their regularity. Since the ninth day, already the exception of the 17th, it has always been fourth. Where it is still sealed, with a margin of two triumphs over The Obradoiro, with whom he has lost his particular duel, in the absence of three days. The Galicians, by the way, visit Fuenlabrada on Sunday, which is third with a victory more than Betis Basketball (25) and will be the next rival of the Verdiblancos.

Learn from Morón … and Cartagena

The immediate thing is the visit of the Amics Castellówhose imperative need to win can make it a more dangerous team than usual, although it is also possible that the pressure and nerves of their situation can play a bad pass. In any case, The first quarter experience in Morónwhen based on a quick game and a burst of triples it was widely surpassed by a team already descended, it should serve as alert to Betis Basketball. Far from photocopying the start of the game in Morón, it should replicate that of Cartagena, when he reduced to ashes the opposition of his rival on track the party thanks to a fantastic, by overwhelming in the score, first quarter.

The Amics Castelló has maintained the block all season and knows perfectly what it plays. To short possessions and rapid basketball that averages 79.8 points in favor and 88.4 against. His is the second most permeable defense of the first Feb, only surpassed by the Tizona. Playing as they know how to do it, with a very fluid medium track basketball, of good selection in the launch, the Verdiblancos hit the Castellonenses in the first return to home. Up to 44 points was the maximum rent stored.

From the Alameda pavilion, by the way, several positive news was brought by Betis, triumph on the margin. The recovery of the best version of Cvetkovic It is one of them, but also the team’s ability to completely change the record adapting to what the situation requested, reading the weaknesses of the rival; and the contribution of Tunde, Kasibabu and Debisschop, both in points and in rebounds.

With 49 rejects in total, Betis again put on the slaughter suit, which he never renounces to get the games forward. Maybe today you have to do the same If the physical wear of these ten days with three tension gamesespecially the lost against the Monbús Obradoiro, he is felt on the legs of the players of a high quality but also veteran.

The rival pillars

In the Amics Castelló, Jamal Tate, who causes Baja with Faner and surely Okouo, is his top scorer (15.2 points), followed by Minlend (10,2) and Ngom (9). Although it is not precisely a defensive wall (it fits 37% of the triples of its rivals), it is a team that bounces well, especially in attack. It also has a lot of height in the boards thanks to Stutza 2.13 that can open the field. If the payroll of their workforce is reviewed, it is not well understood that it is in such a difficult situation, but that is how complex it is the first Feb.

Betis, in fact, does not stop winning matches and or in its best sequence of the season, with six victories in a row, he even got one more step in the table. It seems that the room is its place, but the Obradoiro wants it to himself and does not stop pressing him In a persecution that the Verdiblancos, for now, control. To remain so, they must maintain the cruise speed and throw again in San Pablo the bolts that precisely dynamited the powerful Galician picture.