The third one is coming

The senior resists when Arcos Albacete Basket comes close in the last quarter (75-82) and maintains the unbeaten streak in the LEB Plata

| Sunday, 14 October 2018

Three out of three for the Girona Basketball seniors, who this afternoon won a valuable victory over Arcos Albacete Basket (75-82). The team led by Quim Costa always carried the weight of the match and got to a +11 in the middle of the third quarter, but had to grind until the end to break the resistance of a very combative opponent. The people from Girona consolidate in the upper zone of the East group of LEB Plata (3-0).  

The equality that presided over the first quarter was broken at the beginning of the second, after two consecutive triples by Cizmic (22-30, 15′). The Mancheques couldn’t find either Tyler Rudolph (2 free-throw points in Ecuador) or the shooting from outside (0/7 in the first two quarters), but the work under the boards of Marcus Van allowed them to compensate- ho and go to the dressing room with little disadvantage (34-38). Basketball Girona, with low percentages in the first half (35% in field goals), accelerated at the start of the third quarter. Sergi Costa took the reins and Berry was present in the paint to open a hole (partial 0-9 and 39-50, 25′). Arcos Albacete Basket, far from giving up, raised the intensity a notch and the Girona players collapsed to the point of losing their cushion (65-67, 35′). The team did not lose their composure and, playing with judgment and patience, ended up sealing the victory from the free kick.  

The seniors’ next match will be next Saturday, October 20 in Fontajau against Torrons Vicens CB L’Hospitalet (7 p.m.), in the replay of the last final of the LEB Plata Catalan League.

*Quim Costa’s assessment:

“Neither team had absolute control of the match. We were almost always in front, but without having enough of an advantage to break it. Their fight and increased intensity in defense in the last quarter made us lose fluency, but despite our youth, we have maintained concentration and balance”

“We try to make the game as dynamic, fast and aggressive as we can and, from there, grow little by little”

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