The first duel of the series starts this Monday at the Palau Blaugrana (9:00 p.m.)
The azulgrana team drags the doubts in the interior game of Sertac Sanli and Pierre Oriola
Barça will try to revalidate the Endesa League title against Real Madrid, and facing the first duel of the series, which starts this Monday at the Palau Blaugrana (9:00 p.m.), the Barça team has doubts in the game inside Sertac Sanli y Pierre oriola.
The Turkish center sprained his ankle this Friday in the fourth game of the semifinals against Joventut and so far he has carried out specific work, while the Barcelona captain has pain in his lower back.
Thus, despite the possible call of the pivot of the subsidiary James NnajiBarça will reach the final with a short internal rotation, with Brandon Davies as the only natural ‘5’ of the first team together with the power forward Rolands Smitsused repeatedly as a reference in painting more dynamic quintets.
All in all, Barça will play the final of the Endesa League for the fourth consecutive edition after eliminating Joventut in the previous round, with a display of character and defensive discipline that helped them close the series with two hard-fought wins at the Palau Olímpic in Badalona.
“You have to grow from this game”, assured this Friday the coach of the azulgrana team, Conversations Jasikeviciusproud of the “mental and physical toughness” shown by his players, which led them to overcome a maximum deficit of 12 points and overcome an offensive blockade of nine minutes without scoring.
The locker room heavyweights stepped forward to lead the Catalan team to the final, with Nikola Mirotic in his usual role as top scorer (20 and 18 points in the last two games, with an accumulated success of 6 of 9 in shots from two and 6 of 12 in triples, to which he added 7 rebounds in each one).
The eliminatory for the title have confirmed the recovery of Cory Higgins (13 points on average in the last two games) and also Nick Calathes He has shown his leadership, adding more than one decisive basket to his repertoire of assists.
Barça will need their best collective version if they intend to defeat Real Madrid, who dealt them a strong emotional blow by defeating them in the semifinal of the Euroleague Final Four on May 19 (83-86).
The mental strength of the Catalan team seems decisive to recover the winning dynamic against the eternal rival, since Barça has won 11 of the 15 Clásicos played under the command of Jasikeviciusalthough the trend is one of increasing equality.
Since the Lithuanian’s arrival on the bench at the Palau Blaugrana in the summer of 2020, the Catalan team has overcome the seven knockout series they have played over more than one game, but in four of them they needed to do so in the tiebreak duel after having missed a prior opportunity.
