The Palmer condemns Cáceres to the play

The Cáceres Heritage of Humanity sinks in Palma and will have to look for promotion in the play. The nine-point advantage achieved in the first leg (72-63) was not enough for the Verdinegro team to achieve promotion to First Feb by the fast track, in the conference champions duel. Adrià Alonso’s pupils, lower than his adversary during almost the entire match, managed worse nerves in a duel in which they abused the triple despite their scarce revenue (7 of 34) and suffered, with a Gatell that arrived between cotton after their lesion in the previous game, to stop a decisive traoré under the rings (23 points). Rakocevic (21) and Adekoya (11) kept alive the flame of a greenish squad committed to fighting in the playoff for an ascent that escaped after a bad last quarter.

The duel began with the tension of the great appointments and in the midst of an exceptional environment. With both teams playing high revolutions, the six points of a ton Rakocevic and a triple of Adekoya granted the first rent of the game to the Cácereño team (8-12). However, under the watchful eye of his father and coach of Spain, Scariolo broke out from the rotation to return control of the score to the Menorcan squad. Feliu punished the mistakes of a nervous Cáceres, inaccurate after the first rotations (18-14), but Dani Rodríguez managed to score a basket of a lot of merit to close the first quarter with an equalized score (18-16).

The Palmesan team was imposing its rhythm with the passage of the minutes, helped by its muscle in the painting and driven in the chapela annotation. A traoré basket forced Adrià Alonso to request his first dead half (27-19). With the Verdinegro team too obvious in the unproductive exterior launches and with serious difficulties in assembling good offensive actions, the cast of Marco Justo further expanded its advantage thanks to a very physical game and forced a new dead time of Alonso when they subtracted three minutes to reach the Ecuador of the match (36-22).

The Barcelona coach was not able to instill in his pupils a greater clarity in attack, but, at least, his men were applied more in the defensive work, a circumstance that allowed them to timidly reduce the gap, thanks to the points of Black and Rakocevic before retiring to the costumes (38-25).

The Palmer, back to action after the intermediate, hit again, with Easley and Urdiain punishing the greenish squad from the perimeter. Once again, Rakocevic and Adekoya were responsible for keeping their team’s aspirations alive (49-33). A until then unnoticed Pedro García took prominence with two baskets in penetration, and two more triples of Rakocevic momentarily returned the tie to Cáceres (54-47). This time it was Marco Justo who stopped the meeting. And he reacted to his team, who put the contest on his side with Feliu and Chapela baskets before reaching the decisive last quarter (58-47).

Sees of Dani Rodríguez and Black once again put the global in favor of the Verdinegro team (61-54), but an unsportsmanlike of Pedro García on Commander stopped the ascending tendency of the Cáceres. I traored, unstoppable in the area, with twelve points in the decisive section despite Alonso’s correction attempts, he put the ropes against the Cácereña squad in the absence of just over two minutes (74-56). Desperate and without ideas, Adrià Alonso’s men were not able to react and reverse the situation before a Palmer Basket, driven by his hobby, which scored the victory and assured the ascent to the second ranks of state basketball (76-58).