Nor I would like to add vinegar to one Cup, without an audience, bitter about the coronavirus, like so many other things these months. Silent cinema is magnificent, but silent basketball is not, and even less so in this edition, in the excellent but soulless WiZink Center, orphan of the heat of the fans, who usually turn these four days into a party. That is not a set phrase. The Cup arouses admiration because there is nothing like it on the Spanish sports calendar. It is the jewel of the ACB, but it does not shine like that. I understand the sleeplessness of Antonio Martn for trying to have some audience. I too would have left my life.
And this Light Cup It is no longer the tournament of surprises, even thinking that the matches are life and death, those that the League is sorely lacking. In the last 11 years Madrid or Bara won the tournament. In this edition, the forecast is that some Euroleague team will do it, perhaps one of the regulars, possibly the Barça team, very favorite in the forecasts, because Madrid in the Laso era never arrived in worse physical condition. His equipment is broken.
The referee tantrums are often unpleasant Txus Vidorreta, the coach of Lenovo Tenerife, but after losing to him Baskonia last Sunday he offered a fact that invites reflection and that should be remembered. Since October 28, the teams of the Euroleague with license A (Bara, Madrid and Baskonia) have only lost in the League in direct confrontations between them. Nobody beat them. And nothing more boring than knowing what is going to happen. All three are in the Cup, of course.
Since the end of October, Madrid he only lost to him Barcelona in their only league defeat. The Catalans have only fallen against him Valencia Basket. And the Baskonia has suffered defeats against madridistas and the taronjas. Valencia, meanwhile, has lost to Madrid, Burgos and Tenerife, the last two good teams in the middle class in La Liga. Ponsarnau’s team has not fallen in the league since November 22. The gap widened a lot. The most powerful are relentless. Other years were not necessary, but for one reason or another, it is difficult to get excited.
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