The faith of Casademont Zaragoza and a stroke of luck with favorable plays in the last seconds, capped by a buzzer-beater three-pointer from the Italian Marco Spissu (20 points, three rebounds, and nine assists), gave them salvation when the worst was feared. The team from Aragon won in Lugo against Rio Breogán (94-95), despite the 33 points from the Malagan Francis Alonso, and the accuracy of the Sardinian point guard was the doom of Gran Canaria, which, minutes earlier, had suffered a heavy defeat (105-81) at Roig Arena against a Valencia team that will fight for second place in Barcelona on Sunday. The island team says goodbye to the ACB after 31 seasons in the top category.
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The Barcelona-Valencia match on Sunday will decide the playoff spots and the quarterfinal matchups. Four spots remain to be defined. The last three are clear with Asisa Joventut in sixth position, Surne Bilbao in seventh, and LaLaguna Tenerife in eighth. The first place will go to Real Madrid despite the white team, which finished with the Turkish Ömer Yurtseven in his second game, and Sergio Scariolo expelled, suffering their fifth consecutive defeat, this time against Baxi Manresa (94-87).
Kosner Baskonia took a big step to finish second with their victory over Unicaja (92-89), out of the title playoffs. UCAM Murcia, another contender aiming to reach the semifinals with home-court advantage, also did not fail and defeated Hiopos Lleida (116-95).
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The spots from second to fifth are very open, with Baskonia and Murcia with 25 wins but no games left to play, and Valencia and Barcelona with 24, but with the Sunday match still to be played.
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