The feat of San Pablo Burgos: Champions League champion after overwhelming AEK

Five years ago, the CB Miraflores competed at the provincial level.

Today,

, which is the same club with another name, is European champion.

He is the Cinderella that nobody wakes up from his dream, he is one of the most incredible phenomena that Spanish basketball ever witnessed.

If a few months ago he reached the semifinals of the ACB, this Sunday he conquered the Champions League, the continental tournament organized by FIBA, the only one resolved this year, with an exhibition in Athens against the favorite and local AEK.

The history of this team will speak, whose feat was written even before the initial honk.

2020, so cursed for almost everyone, was a blessing for the Castilians, unrepentant like the spirit of El Cid, in the European summits for the first time in this

postponed since May by the pandemic, in which it has touched perfection, destroying consecutively to Hapoel Jerusalem, Dijon and AEK.

Because Burgos was not going to be daunted even by the pedigree of his rival.

Not even when the first quarter turned out to be a real disaster.

Rookie stuff.

Before the gaze of the masked

, luxury spectators in the OAKA void, San Pablo was drowning in his own nerves, spurred on by AEK, which allowed him to launch, which passed the blocks from behind.

Pure frustration.

A pat from the former Madrid player Marcus Slaughter -one of the many flashy veterans under the command of Ilias Papatheodorou: Langford, Tyrese Rice, Lojeski, Maciulis ...-, was the dagger to an initial act that was a nightmare (14-24) .

But if San Pablo has shown something in these last months of magic, it has been a giant's self-love.

And always a plan.

It is the

label

, the fashion coach.

The reaction of his pupils was moving.

Cook, McFadden ... and Saved

Because where before there were closed rings, now there was a horizon of confidence, the wrists relaxed with impudence.

The one who called the rebuttal was Omar Cook, a veteran of a thousand battles.

He had four consecutive triples and all followed his call to war, especially his compatriots

.

Burgos returned in a gale.

Only the arrival of halftime could slow their momentum, a 35-12 run to turn the final upside down.

The Greeks raised the physical bar on their return, they had no other choice.

But there was no longer a tremulous rival in front.

There was a lion without a cage and a guy dressed as a hero.

The electric McFadden

was going to answer any attempt at Greek approach.

To increase the distance (73-52 with eight minutes to go).

Kravic dominated the rebound and Miquel Salvo showed that there is no ceiling for anyone, a player who not so long ago fought on the EBA courts or in the Belgian second division could be the protagonist in a European final.

Paradigm of this historic Burgos, whose only regret was not being able to celebrate with that Fury that made the Coliseum one of the hottest courts in Spanish basketball before the pandemic.

He takes a title for his empty showcases - he was promoted to ACB in 2017 - and the million euros that FIBA ​​awards as a prize to the champion, in that competition to recruit the best clubs and try to compete in the Euroleague.

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