Kairis: Smith “Barca” will try to revenge “Real” in the ACB league “play off” tournament

On the way to the finals in Barcelona, ​​which finished the regular season this year with 27 wins and first place in the tournament table, a team from Gran Canaria will face the quarter-finals or the first round of the playoffs. ”And“ Breogan ”team, winning only one success more than the mentioned opponents.

Badalona’s Joventut, who finished the tournament in fourth place in the second pair of “Barcelona branches”, will compete with the Tenerife team. Interestingly, in all three team games this season (two in the ACB League and the Spanish Cup), the team that played away has won.

In the meantime, Real will compete in the quarterfinals of Real Madrid with the Manresa team, which has already played for the Royal Spanish Club on March 20 this year, as well as in the away guests. As an additional bonus, the Manresa team is also expected to freshen up its legs, given that the Real team in Belgrade has to compete for the Euroleague championship trophy this weekend.

In the last pair of quarter-finals – in the third place, the Valencia team, which finished in the regular tournament, will compete with Vitorija “Baskonia” represented by Artūrs Kurucs. For both units, the duel promises to be especially principled, considering that the playoffs have to take effect for the second season in a row in the quarter-finals format. Last year’s success in the three-game series was celebrated by Valencia’s team, which later conceded to Real Madrid in the semi-finals. In the regular tournament, both teams performed in a similar way, with Baskonia celebrating success in the first round of the tournament in September, while Valencia was the top player in Vitoria in April.

Predicting the results of the playoffs in the Spanish Championship, it cannot be ignored that the two strongest players in the tournament are Barcelona and Real Madrid, represented by Roland Schmidt, who have competed in the final 18 times in the history of the ACB League. At the same time, from the last five seasons, this format has only been seen twice in the finals, including last year when the Catalan Club, led by Sarun Jasikevic, celebrated the victory in the series.

In order for both Spanish grandiques to prove their dominance this year and make it to the finals, it is expected that several teams will have a say in this matter, but Valencia, which celebrated success in five of the last six games of the regular tournament in the Spanish league and the Euroccup, reached the semifinals of the tournament, where he conceded to the next champion of Bologna “Virtus”.

Making a “blind forecast” of what has just been written, we have to assume that this year, in the finals, we will probably see a duel between the Real Madrid and Barcelona teams for the second season in a row. Given that Real’s team has celebrated only two victories in seven matches this season, I expect Barcelona to be crowned Champion this year for the second year in a row.