NBA: Ricky Rubio, decisive in some never get tired of winning

theYou are Cavaliers On Saturday evening, she collected her third win in a row by defeating Sacramento Kings With a ratio of 117-103 in a game in which the performance was played in the last minutes of the Spanish base Ricky Rubio It was crucial to ensure the Cleveland team win.

Rubio played the final 8 minutes of the match, after the Kings dangerously shortened the difference after 2-12 quarters, as well as reassuring his teammates on the field when the match appeared to be spinning out of control. Author of two crucial trilogy In the last two minutes.

with these three Rubio scored a total of 15 pointsIn addition to getting 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals in 26 minutes of play.

Seven players from Cavaliers, the team that shows an impressive level of relationship between all its lines, finished the game with more than 10 points in their credit and three of them with double points.

Al-Qaeda Darius Garland He has 16 points, 13 assists, 6 rebounds, 3 steals and 1 stop while the two men are tall, Garrett Allen Evan Mobley, they also accumulated a double double.

aline He added his 100th double in his career with 19 points, 11 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 3 blocks during the rookie. mobile He earned his double with 15 points, 15 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 stopover.

The Cavs’ top scorer was striker Isaac Okoro, with 20 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals, while the Kings’ top scorer, and top scorer of the match, was goalkeeper Buddy Hield who after the match started. The substitutes had 21 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 blocks.

start in the caves

Cleveland started the game as a carbon copy of the one in which they beat the Timberwolves in Minneapolis on Friday. Once the ball was in play, the Cleveland started on the fifth start (Garland, Okoro, Allen, Mobley E. Laurie Markkanen) put the kings under severe pressure on the defense. In attack, Cleveland was dedicated to exploiting the wings of Allen, Mobley and Markanen.

And in the face of the wolves, the scheme succeeded perfectly. In less than two minutes into the game, the Cavs were already 6-0 scoring. Markkanen, Mobley y Garland from drawing. At 4 minutes the score was 11-3 and two minutes later, when Kings coach Alvin Gentry had to call his first time-out, the distance was 12 points, 18-6.

While Okoro was the most effective of the Cavs, it was Hield, who started the match from the King’s bench, making the baskets for Sacramento.

In the first quarter, the scoreboard was 36-23.

But in the second quarter, the Cavaliers announced the Declaration of Principles with a total of 45 points in 12 minutes. The hosts initially settled to keep the Kings at bay, but in the final four minutes before the break, Sacramento punished Sacramento with a 20-7 score that included 12-0 in 99 seconds.

Rubio’s men moved the ball quickly in attack, sending off the California defense, allowing Sidi Ousmane to score 2 times in a row from the destabilizing agents. In defense, the rebounding blocks of Allen and Mobley ended up sinking the Kings.

Decisive end to Rubio

When both teams went to rest, the scoreboard indicated an 81-52 final.

But in the second half of the game, the Cleveland Club allowed the Kings to come back to life. In the first four minutes of the third quarter, the visitors scored a series of hits in an attack that the Cleveland team couldn’t respond to, making it 2-13.

And although at the end of the third quarter the Kings cut the lead to 23 points, 101-78, the margin looked comfortable enough that the Cleveland team had no problems.

At the end of the match Cavs coach, JB Bickerstaff, admitted he misread the situation, allowing the Kings to reclaim 17 points and get dangerously close, 103-96, to Cleveland with 6 minutes left in the game.

Back then, when the team needed it most, it was the best Rubio. The base took control of the team and when the team shooters, like Garland Othman St, they failed to attack, with 2.18 points remaining, and Al Masnou scored his first hat-trick which kept the Cavs off 11 points, 110-99.

after the triple, Rubio stole a ball In defense it was allowed to increase the distance to 112-99. And when the Kings responded with “alley oop” from Chimezie Metu, Rubio judged the match with another treble left 115-101 with 1.34 remaining with the final trumpet.

Rubio will still have time to steal another ball before the score is final 117-103.