San José completed a comprehensive 96:53 victory over San Alfonso in the LNB championship in Paraguay on Sunday evening. The hosts have now moved closer to cementing their position at the summit of the table, while their visitors remain rooted in eighth place after fourteen rounds.
To be fair, the result tells you everything you need to know about where these two sides stand this season. San José sit top with thirteen wins from fourteen games and only one defeat to their name. San Alfonso, meanwhile, have managed just a single victory and carry thirteen losses, a gap that shows no sign of closing.
What struck immediately was the shooting disparity, and here's the thing about basketball — three-pointers decide games like this. San José hit seventeen of their thirty-five attempts from deep, while San Alfonso could only manage four from thirty-four. That is not a close game, it is a mismatch played out on the court.
The assist figures paint a similar picture of how the teams operated. San José moved the ball twenty-four times against eight for their opponents, which means they were finding each other and refusing to let the game slow down. One mistake ends it when you are second to everything, and San Alfonso were second to everything.
Rebounding completed the statistical portrait. Fifty to thirty-five on the boards, with the hosts grabbing eight offensive rebounds compared to seven for the visitors. More importantly, the defensive rebounding differential — forty-two to twenty-eight — meant San Alfonso rarely got a second chance to score.
Both sides turned the ball over thirteen times, so that was at least a neutral factor. But when you combine those turnovers with poor shooting and fewer assists, the game slips away quickly. San José had opened talks about extending their lead, and this result moves them further ahead.