Obradoiro defeats Joventut in Badalona
Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro adds a new victory to Endesa League. In contrast, Divina Seguros Joventut of Badalona who lost in front of their home crowd (82 -83). This result leaves them two points behind Obradoiro.
New recruits of Moncho Fernández show how something has changed and the last victory against Real Madrid (90-83) was proof of that. Jordan didn't know how to stop the ukrainian pivot Artem Pustovyi. In the fourth minute Obradoiro team already had 12 points (3 - 15). Catalonia team were lack of attack ideas and McConnell took advantage of this chaos to get more points (minute 7: 10-22). The trainer put Ventura and Stutz out on the court to change the dynamic of the march. It was a success and they were only five points over Obra.(27-22, minute 15)
Once again, the point guard, Mickey McConnell with the help of the pivot Nacho Llovet took the control of the game and they reach half- time with 6 points ahead on the scoreboard. (32-38).
At the beginning of the second part, local team make the same mistakes and Obra took advantage to overtake the rival team (32 - 44, minute 26).
Alberto Abalde and Bogdanovic wanted to win and the scoreboard showed in the (63 minute: 64-65). Only 3 minutes to finish they didn't know how to stop Whittington who scored 8 points in a row in only two minutes (80-81). A turnover of Bendzius from throw-in only four minutes to the end gave an opportunity to local team, but Bogdanovic lost the ball and Rio Natura Monbus became the winner (82-83).