Combative friends left excellent replica

The CAB men's team received Benfica's training in another game to tell the Portuguese Basketball League. While the Lisboners came from a defeat against Galitos and wanted to reverse the least achieved result, the CAB came from a victory won in the Azores, against Lusitania, and wanted to continue the positive moment. So there was a good basketball game ahead of us. In the first half, the CAB demonstrated a very strong collective spirit, not only in attack, but also in defence. Friends made several moves of beautiful effect and performed an intelligent selection of releases. However, Benfica had a low value in the use of the three point releases (67%), which allowed visitors to win a 22-30 lead on the marker. In the second period, Friends again revealed a lot of delivery and determination. In fact, it is noteworthy that Madeirans never stop fighting, ball after ball, forcing opponents to sweat a lot for each basket. Even so, visitors, making full use of the great rotation of their squad, managed to wear out, little by little, the formation of the house and convert important baskets to their punctual advantage, which was 35-48 to the interval. Meanwhile, in the course of the second half, the CAB had run out of its foreign base, Michael L'Africain, which should be replaced after a defensive block in the back area, which affected neck mobility. On the return of the locker rooms, the balance was once again the dominant note and only in small detail did Benfica succeed in being superior to the men of the house. Moreover, the result recorded in the party (21-24) clearly denotes the struggle between the two teams, with the CAB leaving in the field a very positive image of its working group. History was repeated in the last time (16-18), with the men of the Light escaping from the house very little. However, in the end, the victory of the visitors was just (72-90), despite the great attitude and group spirit of the CAB men.