Barça added the fifth victory of the Endesa League season completion take the Valencia Basket by a tight 102-99, in a game that met the high initial expectations, and where those of Joan Peñarroya They will have to work hard to inflict the team’s second defeat of the campaign on Pedro Martinez, What a great start to his second spell with the Valencian team.
Victory, in a key to Barça, has two names: to Jabari Parker, author of 18 points and appears especially in the last baskets, which serve to decide the outcome of the battle, na a Kevin Punter is good, and, against Valencia Basket, he had the best game in ACB.
His numbers against Valencia Basket
Escort in New York went to 24 points and two assists, for 21 rating credits in just 31 and a half minutes of play. Unmistakable from the personal line, with six hits in six attempts, Punter made four triples, and his scoring is distributed in four periods (6, 5, 8 and 5). He excelled, with great ease, the 12 points it has the limit of the Endesa League, achieved against Baskonia, the day of the fatal damage of Nico Laprovittola.
Kevin Punter, with Joan Peñarroya, in the game against Valencia Basket / EFE
The punter scored all the way, even from beyond 6.75, as shown by his success outside, as well as suspensions in the middle distance that are more characteristic and effective, where the player brings his great talent and quality. He was in the game until the last seconds, and from the free throw line, he added the last two points of Barça serving to seal the victory.
His second highest score at Barça
The 24 goals scored by ACB were his Barça’s second best scoring record, surpassed by 26 who scored against Red Star, in a Euroleague which is the fetish competition of the New Yorker, and where he has already obtained the ‘MVP’ for October.
Kevin Punter, with the ‘MVP’ of the month of October in the Euroleague / EFE
ACB hardness
HISTORY minor leagues, like Serbian, Adriatic, and even Italian or Greek, during his periods at Olimpia Milano and AEK Athens or Olympiacos, Punter experienced firsthand the toughness of an Endesa League which, without a doubt, is the strongest domestic league on the European continent, and where any mistake will be punished. Let’s not forget that Barça, with the victory, ‘lang’ rose to the fifth position.
So, and with ACB’s first exhibition in your pocket, Kevin Punter confirmed that the four points scored in the previous Euroleague game against Paris were a accident, and that, when the ball is hot, there is no better specialist, with Jabari’s approval, to execute those hot shots.