Baskonia falls in Zaragoza and the Cup is complicated (97-79)

The Casademont Zaragoza overwhelmed (97-79) to a blurred Battles of the Basque Country and in the match played this Tuesday of the fifteenth day of the Endesa League, marked by postponements due to the positives for the covid-19.

At the Prince Felipe Pavilion, the team from Gasteiz suffered a severe setback in their aspirations to certify their qualification for the Copa del Rey de Granada when they fell against a Casademont that cemented their sixth triumph of the course in the first half (52-26).

The American escort Matt Mobley, with 20 points, he became the most outstanding player of the pupils of Jaume Ponsarnau, who move away from the stalls in the lower area although he is not enough to dream of the cupbearer tournament in the Alhambra.

The American base Wade Baldwin IV, with 16 points, was the least bad of the team of Neven Spahija, whose possible positive for coronavirus – it was positive in the antigen test, but negative in the PCR carried out afterwards – delayed the start of the meeting until 10:00 p.m. and left it in the hands of David Gil the leadership of the baskonista group, which saw its series of four consecutive wins truncated.

Datasheet:

97 – Casademont Zaragoza (28 + 24 + 18 + 27): Bone (15), Mobley (20), Yusta (12), Radoncic (11), Deon Thompson (13) – starting five – Vanwijn (1), Cook (3), Vilà (-), Waczynski (9), Font (8) and Hlinason (5).

79 – Battles of the Basque Country (15 + 11 + 24 + 29): Baldwin (16), Granger (10),  Giedraitis (13),  Sedekerskis (3), Enoch (12) –cinco inicial– Peters (-), Marinkovic (11), Fontecchio (8), Costello (3) y Nnoko (3).

Referees: Benjamín Jiménez, Jorge Martínez and Héctor Báez. Visitor Costello was disqualified for two techniques (min. 20). Baldwin (min. 40) was excluded by personnel.