{"id":21027,"date":"2025-08-02T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/titans-of-the-south-crush-metros-2-0-in-the-lnb-final-with-a-staunch-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:11:33","slug":"titans-of-the-south-crush-metros-2-0-in-the-lnb-final-with-a-staunch-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/titans-of-the-south-crush-metros-2-0-in-the-lnb-final-with-a-staunch-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans of the South crush Metros: 2-0 in the LNB final with a staunch defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>South Titans Shine at Home and Dominate Metros in the LNB Final<\/h2>\n\nSan Crist\u00f3bal \u2013 Los Titanes del Sur demonstrated their power on the court by defeating the Metros de Santiago with a score of 89-70, consolidating their advantage in the final series of the Super Liga LNB. The match, held this Friday at the Polideportivo de San Crist\u00f3bal, showed the superiority of the current champions.\n\nWith this victory, the Titans put the series 2-0, getting closer to the title that is played to the best of seven games.\n\nThe key to victory was found in a devastating second quarter, where the Titans limited the Metros to only 13 points (32-13). The intense defense and constant pressure throughout the court hindered the offensive performance of the visitors, who never managed to find their rhythm.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Figures in the Victory<\/h2>\n\n\nJonathan Araujo led the Titans&#8217; offense with 15 points and 12 rebounds, demonstrating his dominance in both facets of the game. Xavier Reyes, from the bench, contributed 15 crucial points. Luis David Montero and Jassel P\u00e9rez contributed 12 units each, while Richard Bautista stood out with six points and 12 assists.\n\n<h2>Subways Struggle to Find Their Rhythm<\/h2>\n\nBy the Metros, Jordan Ger\u00f3nimo was the most outstanding with 14 points and six rebounds, followed by Juan Guerrero, who contributed five points and nine rebounds. The Santiago team had difficulties in shooting, with 34% effectiveness (23-67).\n\nThe match&#8217;s partial scores reflected the Titans&#8217; superiority, with scores of 17-20, 32-13, 20-11, and 20-26. The home defense was relentless, limiting the Metros to a 24% success rate in the first half (8-34).\n\nThe next game of the final series will be played this Sunday at 6:00 PM, where the Metros will seek to close the gap against the Titans at the Gran Arena del Cibao Oscar Gobaira.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Titans Shine at Home and Dominate Metros in the LNB Final San Crist\u00f3bal \u2013 Los Titanes del Sur demonstrated their power on the court by defeating the Metros de Santiago with a score of 89-70, consolidating their advantage in the final series of the Super Liga LNB. The match, held this Friday at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[389,6717,3067,5632],"class_list":{"0":"post-21027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-final-series","10":"tag-meters","11":"tag-titans-of-the-south"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}