The Leyma Basketball Coruña He needed to reconnect with his identity, regain concentration on the game and forget about the referees to forget the bad feelings of the losses against Oviedo Y Lleida. He did so and his rival this afternoon paid for it at the Riazor Sports Palace; a Melilla that did nothing (or could do nothing) to stop the tornado from A Coruña (95-69).
After 20 days without Leb Oro in A Coruña, Leyma appeared again before his fans with news in the starting five: Zach Monaghan and Nick Ward on the bench. The slogan was the maximum concentration in the game and this happened from the first minute.
Básquet Coruña began sending on the scoreboard and did not release it until the end of the game. Midway through the first quarter, when the local team already dominated the game, Sergio García put Nick Ward on the court, who in those first minutes was nothing like Lleida’s. With hardly disheveled, the pivot imposed his law on the zone without addressing any other issue that was not the game. Rebounding, scoring and defense marked his appearance in the game until he showed himself at times as an unstoppable player.
Leyma scored 31 points in that first quarter, compared to 16 for Melilla, who couldn’t even find a way to stop the orange team without increasing its offensive contribution.
In the second quarter, the local gale stopped, the scoring of one and the other fell, but Básquet Coruña went to rest with a comfortable advantage of 20 points (47-27).
The second part had no history. At times, the Coruña Basketball fell into relaxation, nipped in the bud by Sergio García with changes in the parquet to maintain the intensity in the match.
The last act served to give rest to some (Ward and Diagne) and confidence to others. Shaftenaar, Zach Monaghan and especially Sanz had minutes to make contact with the good feelings against Melilla that at no time put the orange team in trouble.
The numbers
With his performance, Nick Ward was once again the best of the game. In just 15 minutes of play, he scored 17 points and grabbed 8 rebounds for a PIR of 24. Mikel Sanz became the second highest scorer with 15 points and, caught in the corner, three triples from four attempts. In Melilla, the highest rating was for former Basketball Coruña Gaizka Maiza, with 18.
The classification
With this victory, Leyma occupies seventh place in the standings, with seven victories, one less than the second (Granada) and two less than the first, Estudiantes, his next rival (Community of Madrid, Friday, 8:45 pm).
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