113-73: La Laguna continues in steamroller mode in Europe

The Lagoon Tenerife once again imposed itself forcefully in Euro Cup and maintains ‘roller mode’ in front of Cluj Napoca Romanian, in a match that the locals led from the beginning and in which they improved their rival by forty points (113-73).

After the warning in Liga Endesa after having been defeated against a Leyma Coruñawhich overcame a 12-point difference established in the third quarter, The Lagoon Tenerife returned to the Santiago Martín to face Cluj Napoca and remove the bad taste in the mouth caused by this last match in the national championship.

The Aurinegros did not want to go through the same thing this Thursday and sought to dominate the contest from very early on, led by Kyle guywith an outstanding success in triples and a Jaime Fernandez imperial, who had an immaculate first half with 100% shooting and 13 points converted at halftime.

The difference was notable from early in the first quarter, when in just five minutes of the game, the Canaristas had led by 10 points (20-10), thus showing what their pace of the game would be, which even increased, as the minutes passed, which led them to close these first ten minutes 17 points ahead of the Romanians (36-19).

In the meeting they found the high offensive production of The Tenerife Lagoonwith the ineffectiveness in both defense and attack of Cluj Napocathat no matter how much they tried to solve the problems presented throughout their particular match, it was impossible for them to stop a strong local club that continues to demonstrate that, despite being their debut season in Euro Cupdid not come to this competition to be in passing.

The second quarter was somewhat more even, in which a more balanced overall partial was witnessed with a final score of 23-22, which left the score at half-time at 59-41, which got out of control for the second half in which the Aurinegros stepped on the accelerator to not lift their foot until the end of a spectacular game by the locals.

Finally, the third quarter was sealed with a resounding 87-52 that showed the defensive, but especially the offensive, deficiencies of the Cluj Napocawho missed a high percentage of opportunities that made the Tenerife team increase by leaps and bounds the enormous gap already established in the previous quarters, to continue this dynamic in a final quarter in which they reached +43 on the scoreboard (97-54), with more than five minutes still ahead.

Feast of points lived in a Santiago Martin wrapped up with his people, who also remembered Jesus of Michael and from the CD Tenerifewith numerous t-shirts from the blue and white entity and messages towards the Madrid striker, to whom they dedicated this resounding victory, 113-73, which in turn has helped them mark a series distance in the Group Bwhich leads with 83.3% victories, with five out of six possible.