The third visit to Burgos of the season, a possible advance of the play off

Just eight days remain as a regular phase of the first Feb. And the category, whose competitive level has grown exponentially with a bouquet of aspiring ascent, has become more exciting than ever. Of that spicy sauce is part of the Real Betis Basketballwhose victory over the Airgobooking Ourense last week allowed him to establish himself in the fourth place, maintaining the safety distance with the super agropal Palencia, and reduce the disadvantage about the second and third after the defeats of the Movistar Students and the flexar Fuenlabrada.

The dancing dance can start at any time and the Verdiblanco team is interested, first of all, entrenched in that fourth step, which would give it field advantage and surely The possibility of avoiding the monbús Obradoiro, That goes like a shot, in the quarterfinals. There are eight games that are eight finals, a kind of climbing with several mountain ports and a first ascent in Burgos, city of the nightmares this campaign for basketball (there fell with San Pablo and Obradoir An advance of the ascent tie. If the classification remains as it is right now, Verdiblancos and Burgales would see the faces in those quarterfinals that begin in mid -May to the best of five games.

With the latter, everything is said about the importance of the party for Betis Basketball, which can lcitably have the ambition to hunt some of its predecessors in the table but, above all, it should Focus on the conservative position of ensuring fourth place moving away the stalking threat of Palencia, which he will visit on the last day of the regular phase.

The calendar that awaits the Verdiblanco team has a lot of guasa because there are practically no plains, only mountain ranges. Of the ambush that posted last day the Airgobooking Ourensewhat a great game signed the Galicians, escaped in the extension thanks to Alex Renfroe’s spell, the man who cannot pressure in the most film situations. His coldness in the hottest moments of the matches has already taken his team of several crossroads and against the Ourense the story was repeated, this time with exhibition in the scoring section (34 points) and recovering a key ball that pushed the game at extra time, where Renfroe culminated an outstanding work that accrued the MVP of the day. Hughes and Radoncic, especially the escort, also scratched at the high level, such as Tunde, but in Burgos he must raise Betis Basketball its performance. Especially defensive, considering the peculiarities of his rival.

High game rhythm

The Tizona, like last season, unfolds without corsets, at full speed (plays a very high average of 77.5 possessions per party), betting on the exchange of baskets and trying to impose a frantic rhythm, the highest in the category. As an example, his last appearance as a host, a couple of weeks ago. Passed over the Fuenlabradathird classified and second defense of the League, with 12 triples, 100 points and an assessment of 111 credits. The half inks are not going. It is an flammable team that wins or loses, has fun. Directed by Salva Camps, Tizona proves the most scoring attack in the category (90.2 points) and the second most permeable defense (88.7).

Of Clara Offensive vocationnothing speculative, it can become a real head pain if the encounter is uncontrolled and the rival on duty, in this case Betis basketball, will be infected with that rhythm and reduce its defensive temperature. The quality in the shooting, as the Betic coach in the previous one reviewed, will be a key factor. Lately, the Verdiblanco team is not entering well into the games, and even in San Pablo, where it is showing inabordable, it is costing him. Although he wins, and he does very often, he suffers on each day because he is not left over (there are very loaded players in terms of minutes) even if he has a talent surplus in a sustained exterior battery and led by The Renfroe-Benite-Hughes triangle. Which are generators, scorers and even rebounders. All in one.

For this appointment in Burgos, Gonzalo García de Vitoria has two more pieces: Cvetkovicmore recovered from the ankle sprain that has made him miss the last two games; and Boris Dallothe latest incorporation of the Verdiblanco Club. 31 years old and 1.96 meters, this French perimeter has barely competed this season and will be missing rhythm, since he has not played since November. After tempting Faggiano and Joaquín Rodríguez, as Gonzalo García de Vitoria acknowledged yesterday in Press Roomthe club has opted for this Gallic exterior that adds to a very greased mechanism. You have to get on this train running and contribute to the team what you know and can: defense, physicist, rebound and game address. Because of its demarcation it is a base-scolds that you can defend in the three positions of the perimeter and you should physically give a plus to a squad that needs this extra component.

An exterior as Dallo could come from pearls precisely against Tizona, which has several players who move in several positions (Pacheco, Lances Jones, Jacobo Díaz, Seoane …) constituting sometimes indecipherable threats. Jones, by the way, is the top scorer of the first Feb, with 18 points on average, but that Hughes is the second (420 in total, 16 on average) with the same figure exactly as Granger, the head base of the Movistar Students. Caio Pachecowhich was possibly cut the last campaign for Betis, has established itself in the Tizona with a very high level of play: 13.2 points, 3.5 rebounds, 5 assists and 44% in the triple are the figures accredited by this very powerful Brazilian in the physical level that has become one of the main dangerous lords of the ‘supersonic’ Tizona.

Defense as a priority

The sting of Jordi Rodríguez and Jaume Loboor the presence under rings of Thiamthey are other arguments of this Tizona so uncomfortable and difficult to defend. Although months have passed since the second day, Betis Basketball would well do in refreshing memory in the preparation of the game through that precedent. Surely the equipment has seen it in video sessions. That day, if Betis won and with great solvency in addition (95-76), it was thanks to his defense. A wall against which the Tizona crashed. Betic options pass through there. If the Burgos pressed the turbo from the initial jump, the key will be to be on the stalking without decomposing because at some point the physical and defensive level will grow. The Verdiblancos grant an average of 75 points to their rivalsalthough outside the home they are not so coriacea. Not surprisingly, his six defeats have been added to Betis at home. And this Friday has an exam in Burgos, the city that has visited this season already the one that may return in May, when what is at stake is even more important than tonight in the plant.