Everything happened in a last minute frantic, pure Cup. Failures in the limit, unexplained losses, nerves to the surface and arbitrary controversy for, finally, an unpublished semifinalist and another prediction shattered. The third time was the charm for Morabanc Andorra, who already knows what it is to win a cupbearer match, which on Saturday will look for the final, a feat, after defeating Iberostar Tenerife. [Narration and statistics (85-87)]

The set of Ibon Navarro had deserved a less accidental outcome, since he sent the whole game, making the Canaries pay their lack of tension, as if the Intercontinental Cup won last Sunday had satiated them. But there emerged the genius of Marcelinho Huertas, indefatigable despite his 36 years. The day that surpassed Pablo Prigioni as the maximum historical assistant of the Copa del Rey, the Brazilian was about to round off a fantastic afternoon.

He was an absolute protagonist. With a basket to make Tenerife dream, with a loss after stepping on the bottom line in the absence of three seconds and even with a recovery forcing a lack of attack that returned hope to those of Txus Vidorreta. In that background, with 85-86, the referees did not point out what seemed a clear lack of Senglin about Konate . Hannah sentenced for Andorra from the free kick. "It is clear unsportsmanlike. I did not want to see it," Vidorreta protested afterwards, who this time did not kneel in the middle of the track, like last year in Madrid. "He was very angry. Since 59, they have thrown 32 free throws and we have 32," he added.

Musli-Shermadini

The Iberostar had cost the entire first part to overcome its particular 'hangover' - after a start in which he was surprised by Todorovic and Diagné , consecutively - to find the loopholes by which to end the resistance of a challenging Andorra, willing to Win the first cupper match in its history. Unlike in the three years ago in Vitoria, I was going to experience the fantastic feeling of winning in an agonizing ending. Then it was the forever famous 'back field' of Llull, in the Carpena they had to smile (in 1995 he also did not exceed the rooms in Granada).

The maxim came around the changing room, after a triple of Hannah and a past hoop of Musli (44-54) - her battle with Shermadini in the painting, like two giants of another time, caught the attention, for the unusual. It was the alarm voice, the limit that Vidorreta was willing to reach. Although it was going to cost a little more. His first reaction (59-59), was interrupted by another Andorran arreón, who was going to start the final act with an interesting income (62-70).

Everything went to an agonizing outcome, with so much desire to win as fear of getting it in both fighters. In the absence of five minutes, Andorra (70-77) still slackened, but the reaction led by Huertas, infinite the Brazilian, was powerful. He came to put his team ahead after a long time (85-84), with a beautiful penetration. But everything got entangled in a bad way. In the air currency, luck fell from the Andorran side.

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