Unicaja has 9 games ahead of them until the end of the first round of this Endesa League 21/22 in which they will have to add at least 6 victories to be able to get the ticket that allows you to be in the Copa del Rey next February. An unquestionable goal every season for the Los Guindos club, forced by budget, by history and by tradition to participate in the great winter festival of Spanish basketball.
The team of Fotis Katsikaris, With only 3 victories after 8 league games, it is currently out of the cup zone, although it is true that only one victory away from seventh place, the last one that gives the right to play the tournament of the ko It must be remembered that Baskonia, although it is not yet official, will act as host in the appointment of Vitoria 2022, so your place is guaranteed. As the Baskonia team is eleventh right now in the standings, that means that the eighth in the League would have no place in the Buesa Arena tournament if the first round ended today.
The Unicaja is forced to a radical turn in many aspects to be able to be in the cup party. The most important thing is to improve your game in these coming weeks if you want to celebrate your cup classification on Sunday, January 9, once your match at Martín Carpena against Valencia Basket is over, corresponding to matchday 17 league, the last of the season. first round.
In addition to that absolute change in his game, which is still too individual and little collective, the green team also needs its results to be totally opposite to what it achieved last season against these same 9 rivals that it now has before it. Against them, last year, Unicaja signed a very poor balance of 2 wins and 7 losses !!
It goes without saying that in the event that the same background is repeated now, the cup classification would be impossible for Katsikaris, but it is very likely, in addition, that it is hypothetical (and not desired) 5-12 in the table , would lead the greens to finish the first round in the relegation zone of the LEB Gold League.
The calendar ahead of the Greens is five games at home and four away from Malaga. San Pablo Burgos, Urbas Fuenlabrada, Joventut, Casademont Zaragoza and Valencia Basket will successively pass through Martín Carpena. Five games that last season resulted in as many defeats. Yes, it was lost against all five. Burgos won 93-101; the Fuenlabrada, 84-90; the Joventut, 86-95; Zaragoza, 78-101 and Valencia, 85-89. Results that show that any past time was worse.
The four departures that remain this first round at Unicaja are to Vitoria, Seville, the WiZink Center of Real Madrid and Bilbao. The composers won last year on the Baskonia track (70-79) and on their visit to the capital of Biscay (75-91). On the contrary, they lost to Coosur Real Betis (78-75) and in Madrid (91-84).
The accounts are still out, but we are headed for two months, until January 9, in which the calculator will fume every Sunday night. It is better to think game by game, but it is inevitable to be very aware of what happens on the other fields every weekend. Vitoria will be the next station this Sunday (6.30 pm).
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