The 6,323 spectators who attended the match between Valencia Basket and Covirán Granada at La Fonteta on Saturday afternoon witnessed a stellar performance by the locals, who won 120-94. This is the club’s second highest score in its history, only behind the 121 points they scored during their visit to Gipuzkoa Basket in 2016; The 34 assists that the men in orange signed (10 from Chris Jones) are their best record in the competition, and the third best mark in the entire Endesa League, after the 35 of Joan Creus’s Granollers against Real Madrid in 1989, and the same number of passes by the white team against Fuenlabrada in 2016; and the 20 triples made out of 39 attempts (51% success rate) are once again the third best mark in the ACB’s career. Curiously, Valencia already occupied the first two places in this classification, with the 22 bingos it added in 2018 against Delteco GBC and the 21 in 2016 against the same rival.
And there is more. Valencia Basket reached the break with 67 points in their locker (they signed sets of 33, 34, 26 and 27), their highest score in a first half in their entire history and the highest in the Endesa League in the last 17 years, since In 2008, Madrid reached halftime against Valladolid with 70-40.
To top it all off, another outstanding performance by the young promise Sergio de Larrea, who with 10 points, seven rebounds and eight assists equaled the records for precocity at 19 years or younger of Santi Abad, Ricky Rubio and Luka Doncic. Young talents continue to shine in the ACB and Pedro Martínez’s Valencia, leader of the League and seeded in the next Cup, is flying.
