Los larenses han demostrado una excelente mezcla entre criollos e importados, Alan Cabrera, Heisler Guillen, Jose él (Grillo) Vargas y Valera son los que más usa el director técnico de Guaros en cada uno de los compromisos que disputan los de la ciudad musical, son cinco el cupo de importados que puede tener cada equipo en la actual temporada, Lara cuenta con sus 5 extranjeros, el último que fue incorporado al club, es el cubano Pedro Bombino, un jugador que puede jugar como puesto 5 y 4, y por lo general lo rotan con el colombiano Tello, sin duda alguna los crepusculares lucen fuerte en la pintura con estos importados, mientras que Harris es quien ayuda el criollo Guillen en las funciones de conducción.

Desde que se dio inicio a los octavos de final se dejó correr un rumor en el cual se habla de una sorpresa, de un jugador que vendría a redondear la nómina del quinteto occidental, muchas son las especulaciones que se han hecho con referencia a este tema, se habla del posible regreso de Gregory Echenique, un centro venezolano con amplia experiencia en la liga con los Guaros de Lara, y es que los rumores no se quedan allí, hasta el nombre de la ex estrella de la NBA Dwight Howard ha sonado con bastante insistencia.

En mi opinión, más que un puesto 5, el equipo necesita a un jugador que pueda jugar de escolta y que sea bueno en los lanzamientos desde el perímetro, ya que cuentan con jugadores que pueden conseguir bastantes rebotes ofensivos, para seguir avanzando en cada ronda, los larenses deben cerrar mejor los juegos, porque a veces dejan ir las ventajas amplias que obtuvieron en los 3 primeros cuartos de dichos choques, y la exigencia va a ir creciendo a medida que se vaya avanzando en los play-offs.

Only one team has scored to be part of the quarterfinals of the Professional Basketball Super League in Venezuela, which is the same to say that they are already among the best 8 teams of the championship, Guaros de Lara won the series against the Llaneros de Guárico, the team was so superior that in each of the games they won, the difference was more than 19 points, now they will have to wait for their opponent in the next stage of the Venezuelan basketball tournament.

Alan Cabrera, Heisler Guillen, Jose (Grillo) Vargas and Valera are the ones most used by the technical director of Guaros in each of the games played by the team from the musical city, there are five imported players that each team can have in the current season, Lara has its 5 foreigners, the last one that was incorporated to the club, is the Cuban Pedro Bombino, a player who can play as 5 and 4 position, and usually rotate with the Colombian Tello, no doubt the Crepuscular look strong in the paint with these imports, while Harris is who helps the Creole Guillen in driving functions.

Since the beginning of the round of 16 a rumor has been circulating in which there is talk of a surprise, of a player who would come to round out the roster of the western quintet, many are the speculations that have been made with reference to this issue, there is talk of the possible return of Gregory Echenique, a Venezuelan center with extensive experience in the league with the Guaros de Lara, and the rumors do not stop there, even the name of the former NBA star Dwight Howard has sounded quite insistently.

In my opinion, more than a post 5, the team needs a player who can play shooting guard and who is good at shooting from the perimeter, as they have players who can get enough offensive rebounds, to continue advancing in each round, the Larazans must close the games better, because sometimes they let go the wide advantages they obtained in the first 3 quarters of those clashes, and the demand will be growing as they advance in the playoffs.

The blue express, Trotamundos de Carabobo is one of the teams with great aspirations to be champion and to revalidate its title, which won last season; However, yesterday against the Gaiteros del Zulia could not finish the mission to reach the quarterfinals, and will seek tonight to achieve it again visiting the city of Maracaibo, the coach of the carabobeños, Narvarte, will seek somehow to encourage the offensive awakening of his players, especially Jhornan Zamora, who comes from a few games to forget, where he has not been present with his points, which usually come with long distance shots, this team still has two games left to win 1, the advantage on paper that will have the Gaiteros, will be the locale and surely today many fans will attend the Pedro Belisario Elias del Zulia.

The Zulianos, besides having the venue, have some imported players of great quality, who kill any team in the final instances with their three-point shots, it is vital for those led by the Argentine Narvarte to take care of those shots, but also to avoid being full of fouls so early in the commitment that they will dispute, this was a series that seemed serious for a single street, but it was not so and the emotions are still 100% for their fans.  

The Broncos of Caracas, fell in a surprising way against the Centauros, with a score of 78 - 71, the Broncos dominated the commitment throughout the same, but in the final minutes the Centauros were in charge of spoiling the party to the capital, who seek the sweep in the series and dawn in the quarterfinals, It was evidenced deficiencies at the time of closing the game, which was what I said before that happens to the Guaros, perhaps overconfidence, but that usually happens bills and that happened yesterday to the Caracas, surely today win, and demonstrate the superiority on the board.

If we are going to talk about emotions, we cannot leave out the series between the Héroes de Falcón and the Brillantes del Zulia, a series that since I analyzed it I said it would be the most even of the western conference and so it has been, the Brillantes team beat the Falcón team only by three points, 87-84, but if we analyze the game with its 4 quarters, we will realize that the Zulia team was winning in the middle of the game by 20 points, and in the last two quarters the Heroes dominated the game in an evident way, many turnovers by Brilliant gave their rival the possibility to take the game, luckily for them they were able to keep that three point advantage and win, thus putting the series 2-1 in their favor and being at nothing to move to the quarterfinals.

Things in the eastern conference seem to be the same as in the western conference, a series between Panteras and Piratas is quite even and the other series are one way, of course, this is only on paper, since in the playoffs anything can happen, Guaiqueríes, Cocodrilos and Gladiadores are the great favorites to dispute the final of that conference and go to dispute the grand final of the Superliga basketball, surely today will be known the vast majority of classified, both in the west, as in the east.

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