Airport trap in Galicia. Unicaja moves to the north of Spain to face Leyma Coruña for the first time this Saturday, starting at 7:00 pm (broadcast on Movistar Deportes 4 -dial 191- and ⇒Unicaja Basketball Radiolive from Le Grand Café Centro). This is the first time that the two teams will face each other in their history, since the Galician team made their debut this year in the Endesa League after finishing as the leader of the LEB Oro last season.
This is the fifth time we will face a team from Galicia. In the past, Unicaja has faced the following Galician opponents, OAR Ferrol, Breogán de Lugo, Club Ourense Baloncesto and Obradoiro. This weekend the people of Malaga will play an official match in La Coruña for the first time.
Leyma Coruña, after starring in a resounding victory on the first day against Real Madrid after a triple in the horn of Yunio Barrueta (86-85), fell in the following two days in the Endesa League. Both games were lost, on the court of Dreamland Gran Canaria (80-72) and MoraBanc Andorra (112-87). Results that put it in 15th position in the Endesa League classification.
The people of A Coruña are hoping to get back on the road to victory in front of their fans, who already showed their enthusiasm for their team on the first day. With 9,300 spectators against Real Madrid, they are now the fourth place with the best attendance in the Endesa League. For the match against Unicaja, the response of the fans of A Coruña was also amazing, with less than 700 tickets sold today, so the Coliseum of La Coruña is almost full.
As for the Leyma Coruña squad, led by Diego Epifanio, many of its players have experience. In addition, he maintains the core of the team that brought him promotion last season, with only five new additions: point guard Brandon Taylor (formerly of BAXI Manresa), guard Phil Scrubb (formerly of Movistar Estudiantes and Monbus Obradoiro ), forward LJ Figueroa , power forward Trey Thompkins (formerly of Real Madrid) and former Unicaja center Augusto Lima. This is the first time we will face the center that emerged from the Los Guindos quarry after he left the team this past summer.
Solid numbers
The people of A Coruña showed some interesting numbers at the start of the course. The Galician team is second in the Endesa League in assists (20), triples scored (11.33 per game) and offensive rebounds (15.67). He ranks third in total rebounds (39) and has the league’s fifth-best free throw percentage (79.99%).
In terms of players, American point guard Brandon Taylor is Leyma Coruña’s main threat, averaging 13.3 points, 7.3 assists (2nd in the league) and 2 rebounds for a rating of 18.7. He is supported by the direction of the Latvian Ingus Jakovics (11.7 points, 3 assists, 10.3 efficiency).
On the wings, Yunio Barrueta (12.3 points, 3.7 rebounds), LJ Figueroa (9 points, 4.5 rebounds), Aleix Font (7 points) and Phil Scrubb (3.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists) completed A Coruña on the outside. rotation.
In the zone, Beqa Burjanadze (11 points, 5.3 rebounds, 10.3 efficiency), Goran Huskic (6.3 points, 2 rebounds, 1.7 assists) and Trey Thompkins (3 points, 2 rebounds) provide versatility to the team, while Augusto Lima ( 5). points, 6.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists) and Atoumane Diagne (4.3 points, 3.7 rebounds) add physical presence and rebounding and intimidating power.
Reunions
In addition to Augusto Lima’s reunion with Unicaja, it will be a special match for two players from the Malaga team who will be returning home: Jonathan Barreiro and Tyson Pérez. The Galician forward, a native of Cerceda, and the Dominican power forward, raised in Betanzos, will compete in the battle in the province of La Coruña, where their roots come from.
Ephemeris
David Kravish and Melvin Ejim will be ‘centenarians’ in the Endesa League. Both players are one game away from reaching 100 games played in the Endesa League, all of them at Unicaja in the case of Ejim. Kravish, for his part, played 79 games in the team from Malaga and the remaining 20 in BAXI Manresa, his first team in Spain.
Unicaja will face Leyma Coruña this Saturday, October 19, starting at 7:00 pm at the Coliseum A Coruña. The match, equivalent to Matchday 4 of the Endesa League, will be broadcast on Movistar Deportes 4 -dial 191- and ⇒Unicaja Basketball Radiolive from Le Grand Café Centro.