So many times the best scripts are written in the most unsuspected places.
Because Mike Carlson could say that he had been waiting a lifetime for that ball that fell into his hands in the absence of a sigh to go.
After a far from easy career, forged in small teams looking for opportunities, he was not going to hesitate.
He was far from the basket, had a defender on top and it was his long-awaited debut in the ACB.
But fate had a good
save for the
American power forward: the triple entered and
Acunsa Gipuzkoa Basket, the bottom of the competition
, managed to knock down Iberostar Tenerife (89-87), third-placed and revelation team.
Ecstasy broke out at the San Sebastián Arena, despite the absence of the public.
It was the third victory for the Donostiarras and that did not seem the most propitious afternoon.
A few days ago they lost
Colombian Jaime Echenique
, one of the players who had attracted the most attention at the beginning of the course,
due to a
serious injury
.
Even Marcelo Nicola, his coach, could not be in the crash having tested positive for coronavirus.
But with his assistant at the controls, Iñaki Martín, the GBC went to the epic against a rival who had only lost three games throughout the season.
Only days before, Carlson was discharged for the discharge of Echenique.
He had been
training with the team since October
in search of his opportunity.
He knew the club and the city well, because in the 2016/2017 season he was one of the great protagonists of the promotion, a brilliant course (15.6 points and 4.7 rebounds) under the command of Porfi Fisac.
But a serious injury prevented him from making the jump to the ACB with the team.
Carlson had to start over.
It was always like this in his humble career.
He came to Spain from a small university, Truman State -before he had spent a year at another even more humble, Hope College-, and spent two seasons at the
Clavijo at LEB Oro
before arriving in San Sebastián.
After the knee injury, in March 2018 he was able to play 13 games for Oviedo and then went to Italy, where he played for Latina Basket and the historic Juve Caserta under the command of Ferdinando Gentile, both in the second division.
This season was being difficult for Carlson, on his way to 30 years.
Until his great opportunity came,
a temporary contract
to play for the first time in his life in the highest division.
In the game that he had been waiting for half his life, he had already scored the two triples he had tried previously, in addition to contributing three rebounds.
"It must be taken into account that there was a different Gipuzkoa Basket and its player Carlson, signed this week, has been definitive, has played very well and has done things of great merit," Txus Vidorreta, visiting coach, praised him later.
With one point down and 1.5 seconds to go, Acunsa GBC took the throw-in and the ball went to Mike, who received it as best he could and did not hesitate to get up from almost eight meters.
And then, the end of the movie.
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