Badalona (Barcelona), Oct 2 (EFE) .- The coach of Joventut de Badalona, Carles Duran, told his club’s media this Saturday that this Sunday (13 hours) on the Gran Canaria court they will have to “show more than never “that they are” more team “against a rival against whom he should be” very well “mentally.
Duran said that a match “of a high level” is expected as they face a team “with a lot of individual talent and extraordinary potential.” Both teams have two wins and one loss after the first three days of the championship.
The green-black coach commented that both teams aspire “to the maximum” in the Endesa League and that playing on a court like the Gran Canaria Arena is “always difficult, as on any ACB court”.
Carles Duran recovers for this game forward Brandon Paul, absent in the victory (72-61) against Baskonia due to muscular problems, so that the only absences of Penya in Gran Canaria will be the bases Ferran Bassas and Arturs Zagars, according to reported the Catalan club.
The Catalan coach did not want to take as a reference the victory against the Baskonistas, in which his team was very good in defense, facing the clash against the Porifirio Fisac team since for him “each game and each rival are different, and not It is the same to play at home as away from your audience. “
Of course, Duran said that if his team is able to “match” this Sunday the level of intensity that he put against Dusko Ivanovic’s team “he will have many points in favor to win.”
Despite the good start to the championship of the green and black, with two victories on their track, their coach assured that they are still “capable of improving things” and that they increasingly have “higher demands” after winning a Euroleague team such as Baskonia.
“The most important thing is for the team to grow and if it does so with victories, much better. It would be great news for the team to get the second consecutive victory in Gran Canaria,” said the coach.
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