“It’s a tough defeat for the team’s image. It’s not the first time this team has done this. We’re not going to lie to our fans. Such a brutal change in 48 hours is very hard to accept.”“. The words of Saras Jasikevicius were very clear at the end of the fourth game in Munich with a defeat, at times embarrassing, for his team.
“The culprit is not the coach, nor the referee, nor the rival… the culprit is you. Everyone has to look in the mirror and I hope they feel ashamed because I feel it. We will fight to the death. I don’t know whether to apologize for the team image,” she added.
Jasikevicius lamented the “bad luck” of the Catalan team at the launch (5 of 26 in triples and 9 of 23 in shots of two) after losing this Friday the fourth game of the Euroleague four-final series at the Bayern Munich court (59-52).
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“Above all, it was one of those nights where everything we couldn’t get the ball in the basket neither from the three-point line nor from near the rim, with very bad luck.”declared the Lithuanian coach to the television cameras after the game.
The Baltic coach acknowledged feeling “bad” because his team changed “face”, with respect to the one that 48 hours earlier had won on the same stage (66-75), and did “many of the things wrong” that had gone well in the previous meeting.
“We have to regroup” Jasikevicius said as a final message, that he is already thinking about the playoff match that will be played this Tuesday at the Palau Blaugrana, with the ticket to the Final Four in Belgrade at stake.
