Equality and emotion on the first day of the ANGT in L'Alqueria

28/12/2018

The Adidas Next Generation Tournament could not have landed better in L'Alqueria del Basket. The first day has been full of great games, in which the equality between the great European youth teams has been exhibited before a crowd that has enjoyed a lot with the competition.

 

The local team, Valencia Basket, was in charge of opening the tournament, and at the same time that he did, he opened his winning box with a win against the Porsche Ludwigsburg of Germany in a game that have been decided at the end. Xavi Albert’s team took margin in the scoreboard, but the end was tight, falling to the taronja side by 56-52 in a great game of Álex Ortega (27 PIR).

 

Also within the group A, FC Barcelona Lassa was imposed in a balanced game to a combative USK Future Stars Prague (78-71) that competed until the end of the hand of David Bohm (29 points). Equality was still the dominant note in the last game of the morning session, a Movistar Estudiantes Madrid - Unipol Banca Virtus Bologna that opened Group B and the Italians took with a tight 61-63 score. The dominance in the two rims of Gora Camara (15 points, 26 rebounds and 11 fouls received for 39 PIR) was decisive in the fate of the game. Round 1 ended with the triumph of Divina Seguros Joventut against LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne French 67-53 with double figures of Vinicius Da Silva (18 points and 17 rebounds for 35 PIR).

 

The second round in group A began with the meeting that was the second victory of the day for the U18 Valencia Basket team. The taronja squad won USK Future Stars Prague by a score of 60-70. The local team took advantage in the third quarter of the hand of Alejandro Ruiz (19 points) and Guillem Ferrando (16) and protected it in the last to ensure victory. The last match of the day on Friday, which marked the end of round 2 in the group A, was the win of the Porsche Ludwigsburg against FC Barcelona Lassa by 81-64 with a prominent role of Ariel Hukporti (18 points and 8 rebounds).

 

The second day of the tournament, which will decide the final classifications of the two groups, has the following schedule:

 

SATURDAY 29 DECEMBER 2018 - L'Alqueria del Basket

 

10:00  Virtus Bologna - U18 Divina Seguros Joventut Badalona   

 

12:00  U18 LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne - Movistar Estudiantes     

 

14:00  U18 Porsche Ludwigsburg - U18 USK Future Stars Prague

 

16:00  U18 Valencia Basket - U18 FC Barcelona Lassa     

 

18:00  U18 Virtus Bologna - U18 LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne

 

20:00  U18 Divina Seguros Joventut Badalona - U18 Movistar Estudiantes Madrid   

 

 


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